Recent content by Navy_Pete

That's interesting, thanks. Does that mean the class now has a green deck, or is it still ship by ship, with specific limitations? And out of curiousity, have they actually sealed the tracks yet, or is it still a gutter down onto the quarterdeck which would put any spilled fuel right onto the...

Uh, not really, most of that was the costs paid to shipyards for the design, build and delivery, plus sparing, significant IP considerations with the tech data (which isn't cheap) and some other things related to the actual ship. It also included development and delivery of training...

I think the LLs here are pretty easy; building and maintaining things in the Arctic is hard, and if you give someone a dime don't expect something that costs a dollar. The amount of money earmarked for the Arctic base expansion with all the announcements is in the 10s of billions of dollars...

It was a good idea that was executed with the extremely limited funding it actually received, rendering it not useful. The replacements they are talking about will be in other locations, but also cost far more now than if we did Nanisivik properly then. But at least the CCG is getting heavy...

Meanwhile there isn't even any allegation of criminal proceedings in this case, and actually seems to be against the US First Amendment generally.

Yeah, across the board they are fairly deficient, and is a major risk for all the security and building response requirements coming down the pipes with F35 and other projects. Even basic stuff like 2 stage fire alarms, that rely on the building security doing something within a set time period...

I also really enjoyed the Hugh Dillon Redemption Choir; caught them opening for the Hip in a NY Eve show in Hamilton many years ago. Hard to compete with stage presence of the Hip live, but he did a damn good job. Was a way different experience to seeing the Headstones in some college bars but a...

I don't think it's an issue for the flight crew, but a lot of the maintainers in those facilities should be. A few spots have had work refusal orders on safety grounds that have been validated, and part of what drove some of these issues coming to light and got all civilians pulled from the...

Yeah, and I absolutely get the lack of funds part; the large amount of redundancy built into warships means you can have a lot of broken things and still make it work, and the surface fleet has eaten a sustained cut to O&M in the 100-200M range since Afghanistan that money won't get us out of...

Yeah, when a lot of it predates RPOps existence, and base commanders still de-prioritize RPOps work indirectly it's really not just an IE issue. On the plus side, 10 Hangar in Trenton is finally up to basic code after a few decades of not being there. Really weird to see zero downtime allowed...

I like the jenga game we're already playing with all the hangars required for the existing fleet upgrades, and feel bad for the people in IE trying to keep up with the projects. Also why I'll believe 10 Hangar in Trenton is in it's final year only when the wrecking balls are swinging...

Framing a DoD policy from 1945 as 'woke garbage from the Biden administration' is regressive. The outcome makes sense, but like a broken clock, even an incompetent drunk white supremascist like Hegseth can accidentally be get something right. He's an unqualified fraud that is winging the...

PPs own biases won't even let him take credit for it or work with them on points where there is common ground, he's just stuck in inherently oppositional mode, and just complains they don't go far enough, or someone did it wrong, when they basically implemented a CPC proposal. It would be nice...

It's crazy how much of it is being used for chips to support AI farms, so people can do critical things like make fake videos of dancing cats or basic work functions they are supposed to be capable of. It's a non-renewable resource, so kind of wild it's being blown off on really stupid things...

So Iran is supposed to be laying mines in the Strait, that the USN has total control over? This is very Gulf war era Sadam defence minister kind of doublespeak.