Recent content by Navy_Pete

The stuff that gets picked up by internal review of the infra projects by DND SMEs frequently falls into this category, and almost makes me miss working on the NSS files. Not just structural, but plenty of basic errors on fire, electrical, mechanical and others where things don't meet basic...

The only options for that that really make sense to me is that the whole thing was either a money laundering operation designed to fail, or he's just a complete idiot surrounded by idiots. The people around him seem reasonably intelligent, and find it hard to believe he could interfere with day...

So.... connect the East coast to the existing natural gas grid within Canada, increase our internal refineries and otherwise pull ourselves out of integrated utility supply with the US? We're a net exporter of all of that now, and the connections with the US are from convenience. We still make...

He's only 238 if he's 4'tall unless they are using metric afterall. He looks north of 280, even with tailors working miracles to hide his gut. In any case, I think it's some self harm on both sides, but I think an export tax on energy and minerals that goes into the fund to help offset all the...

AOPs got the weapon systems that made sense for the CONOPs and design. They ship has the same combat recoverability as a fishing boat or a cargo ship, and just designed to go from points A to B showing the flag, so was fitted out as a non-combatant On the plus side, that does allow them to do...

Sure, but there is the actual mission, then the amount of sailing the ships actually do, with the GoC never missing most of it, with a lot of the pain being self inflicted. Plus, the GoC would probably not like to know how often our ships sail with collective defects that put them below SOLAS...

It'll be interested to see if that filters down into any real adjustments, as that's been a common theme for a while with RCN leadership, but still maintained crazy opscheds, training schedules etc that requires the shorthanded crews and staff to work insane hours with no real relief in sight to...

I remember some equipment on the 280s had a tally plate on them that included 'Royal Canadian Navy' on them, which was because they had a lot of common equipment from the steamers, and they equipment actually predated unification (or at least the spec it was built to did). It was on a few...

The restrictions on SS painting came from a survey where they went around the ship measuring how thick it was, and estimated there was about a 100 tonnes of extra paint from decades of sprucing it up, with the areas along the standard tour routes the worst. Paint coatings are supposed to be...

Sorry for the delayed reply, was touching grass and enjoying life offline. Short story, the fire loading is being ""tracked" as a class wide safety violation against basic IMO standards, as well as Naval Ship Code and our own CFTOs, but no one has the cojones to put an actual risk assessment in...

So we shouldn't have a safe, functional and secure residence for the leader of our country to live in and conduct official business? That's absurd. Noticed Pierre isn't complaining about getting free residence in Stornoway, or the large amounts he spends as leader of opposition doing business...

Aside from London, BVI, Cayman Islands and Bermuda are huge tax havens, as well as the Isles of Jersey, Mann and Guernsey. A huge amount of the laundering was also via real estate, so dumping it at a high point if you expect it to lose value isn't a surprise.

What are you on about now? The US doesn't want us to be in an economic union, they want to raid our natural resource cupboard for themselves, while giving us nothing. EU countries are still sovereign entities and equal parties, the US wants us to be their gimp. The UK also had an outsized...

No, but did create enough impediments to the delivery of services as well as their remaining goods which previously had unrestricted access to one of the largest economies on the planet. It was an act of self harm. The only people that seemed to benefit from it were the criminals and...

Thatcher took over shortly after the UK joined the EU and while the 70s and 80s were generally volatile that's when their whole banking system was restructured and became a huge part of the UK economy (and conversely manufacturing dropped off a lot, and Thatcher went hard over on miners and...