Recent content by Navy_Pete

I unfortnately had to do this recently and the request was just an email to my supervisor who submitted the leave request in MM on my behalf. That's also my experience for subordinates in the same boat, and have put numerous leave passes in for people as needed (pre MM it was just a CF100 as...

I think for the land procurement, the big advantage SK seems to have is their production lines are already full steam ahead, whereas most of Europe is playing catchup, so timeline wise they may be able to turn around delivery a lot faster for exports, where European domestic producers may be...

Someone bought one of the old blue boats and is running around in it as well. Those YAGs had steady dedicated maintenance crew that babied them for years and kept them in great shape (all things considered). Fun boats to do training on, and there was so much polish on the brass voice pipes they...

It's a $100B decision that has strategic foreign relation impacts, of course it's a political decision. Doesn't mean we won't get a good sub, as both met the actual requirements and were scrubbed against other really good subs. Probably ups and downs to either option, including contract terms...

That's one thing I was wondering about, but I guess if the only air assets in the area aren't yours, and you aren't worried about civilian casualties then maybe it's easier. I guess you could get the effect with loitering munitions as well with some kind of AA threat detection, which is also...

Probably not, that has gone so sideways for us in the past, and cost us so much to take them back and dispose of them, we'll probably just go straight to the breaker yards. I think that would be the same standard across the board. In general though, we use ships way past their end of life...

FWIW the VLS system has come with the Tomahawk option for a long time, and there was already a spec developed for the 280s back in the 90s to convert individual launcher cells over (mechanically very simple actually). Subs having underwater launch capabilities is terrifying, and really kind of...

Given that we can't maintain them and have been operating them for 20 years, with a built up industry around it no reason to think Ukraine could (or would want to). They have already hugely interfered with Russian Black sea marine activities with fairly straightforward surface drones as well as...

Why not both? The government acquisition of private companies is pretty funny though, with how quickly they call everyone else communists.

Too easy, call them the Department of Peace.

We ran for years with zero AORs, after decades with 2 AORs, so 2 JSS is 'enough' for sure. More would give us additional capability, but I think would be a want, not a need. The biggest restriction on the RCN is people to operate the ships, the next is people to maintain and support the ships...

So far he's actually done what he said he was going to do, and has accomplished more in a single 4 month parliamentary session than PP did in 20 years as an MP. He's also personally visit Germany and SK to push this project, which again, is more than I can remember any PM doing for defence. In...

Ah, thanks. That area is far too small for what they are proposing, think multiple big sub sheds, dedicated additonal jetties and possibly a dedicated FMF submarine annex. That whole property is also so hilariously contaminated DRDC built a SCIF on stilts above the old building instead of...

The Brits play mess rugby in full mess kit, and go full bore. That's when we realized their mess kits are provided and they realized we pay for ours ourselves. It was fun, but regretted it the next day when I realized I had to get some repairs done.

Orcas would make sense; they are pretty much independently run in their own world and maintained by the ISSC (now being taken over by Thales from SNC) so they don't need to be near FMF at all. Still can't see how new Corvettes make any sense though; we will struggle to crew/support the fleet...