Recent content by Navy_Pete

Of course not, but if you want to deploy a blue water navy to project power you need to have it ready to go; it's too late once things kick off. The WW2 idea worked because that was comparable to the level of technology the enemy had, but I don't think anyone we'd be fighting would have a .50...

I think realistically there will not be much replacing of anything, warship wise, advanced or otherwise if the conflict is big enough. The supply lines for even steel, engines, piping, valves and other very basic things are all global now, and we saw that in COVID were production in one...

Sure, but we had a massive industrial base to start with, and we converted existing factories and shipyards to that. That Canada stopped existing in the 80s and 90s. Modern ships are a lot more complex but massively more capable, and they didn't even have basic radar on those Corvettes. A...

@Kirkhill I never suggested farmers require an education, just that it's available and there are benefits to it. Also wasn't talking about hobbies, as I don't think the blacksmith guild is too concerned if I bang out some poorly made knives in my backyard. I'm an engineer myself, but like...

Not really sure what you are on about, they are being actively replaced and we do have the budget for it. The issue was outside of any internal DND factor and more that it took a decade of effort to get the NSS in place to get it going, but it will also deliver the JSS on the third try (the 2nd...

Pretty funny to see a former Navy SEAL saying the Navy should butt out of shipbuilding because it doesn't have the expertise it used to, but somehow has more relevant expertise on shipbuilding, contracting and complex project management than NAVSEA to tell them what they should do. NAVSEA still...

Sure, and what happened with my dad's family for the most part, but every single one of the boys up until that point was helping out with some basic stone masonry, even if only one of my uncles took it up as a trade. The rest went of to trade schools and apprenticeships in the different fields...

Using those 3 as an example is pretty ridiculous; if a farmer has a run of bad crops because they don't know how to adapt then they are out of business, if an untrained/unqualified person tries to do something like electrical, welding, or engineering does things then other people can and have...

Sure, just a practical apprenticeship that started when they were kids. When you look at standard times for medieval trades they spent a really long time before they were journeymen, and it's really no different now, just formalized at schools instead of learning from your famliy. Modern...

Fortunately we are using peacetime to beat the absolute f&ck out of everyone for meaningless taskings, and the occasional actual operation, so we'll be running over with fit, and experienced people by the time we need to actually test our combat resiliency.

I don't know where the whole beard hate thing came from, but aside from CBRN and FF requirements around the mask fit well groomed and properly maintained beards and facial hair generally shouldn't be an issue. Plenty of people look terrible clean shaven, and some people manage to have messy...

Drones are one thing, but a squad of hackers can do major damage to a country by targeting infra, banking and other basic things that now rely heavily on computers. Fitness helps for sure generally, but there are definitely people that would never meet any standard that we would really want...

Thanks, that was how I was reading it as well, but expect it might take a week or two for the valuation and answer so thought I would ask for a second opinion. I find the difference between pension and annuity confusing, especially when they use terms like annuitant to refer to pensioners after...

Bit of a necropost, and didn't see any more general sub, but asking on the reg force side vice reservist. Reading through the updated guidance at the link below, and one question I have wrt to pension division is does that impact the eligibility for an annuity at 25 years or is it it just the...

That all seems pretty reasonable, although I didn't realize you would get credit for time served when it was for breaching your bail conditions, but guess that makes sense. The Crowns demand for 8 years seemed pretty insane, but assuming that's the max allowed under the particular charge. Not...