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Actually met a few people that were part of the City class design team that were junior engineers/Nav archs; they are now senior people at BAE. Apparently when the project wound down the majority of team got job offers from BAE and moved over (or back) to the UK to keep working on RN warship...

Sure, that would be a good option, but would still require a ramp up on the training, LCMM, and contracting support side to take on another class, which are all currently understaffed areas we're way behind on. I think the concept of CDC is fine, I think that the brass is way too focused on...

The key bit to that is DEVELOP, which is a huge undertaking. Both shipyards needed major investment and essentially a total redesign of the process and facilities to support the efficiency you get with doing modular building well. And that was actually the easy part; the hard part that is still...

I can still hear the lines around my old place in the north end buzz loudly in the salt fog when I think about it. Having a wood stove there was mandatory with how often we'd lose power, and that was on the same grid as the base.

One nice thing that is complementary to all this is that there is finally going to be major, and overdue investments in upgrading and moderninzing the electric grid, at both the federal and provincial level. Even ignoring EVs, the grid is getting increasingly fragile, with a lot of 50+ year old...

I've heard 'particularized design' for minor changes, but we tend to make massive and significant changes, as well as minor ones. Slapping a giant radar on top of the mast for example, and changing an ASW platform to AAW come to mind. Bunch of weird ones in JSS, like taking out a connecting...

I just meant would be good to give people a realistic idea of what kind of damage you get from an actual missile hit, and they can take it down to actual cabling, so you would get an idea what kind of other stuff goes down (power outets, lighting, etc). Usually unsexy things like chilled water...

It was in one of the FCERs, so maybe took out the cable mid transit, and for whatever reason couldn't have splices, so ended up being an expensive one. Bolting things onto non combatants like the JSS will be generally cheaper from the cable run side of things, regardless of where you put it...

Depends on the piece of kit, but in a lot of cases you get redundancy by having duplicate pieces of equipment with separate controllers, that are separated on the ship, with things like all the power and control cables running on opposite sides, with switches to provide power from either...

What they seem to be actually doing as a starting point is going for attrition and early retirements, not backfilling jobs, and letting managers make noise about it if they need that position. That can work, providing management actually is tracking what the impact is of people leaving a...

The actual CIWS is the easist part of the install as well; the control station, interface to the CMS, and all the power/cable runs takes up the vast majority of the install time (even if it's stanalone). They had to replace the fiber op line from the CIWS to the controller a few years ago after...

FWIW there was a pretty thorough business case done on storing the VLSs off the 280s for the RCDs. At the time, VLS hadn't even been selected, but just on storage costs alone it didn't make any real sense, even if you discounted actual refurbishing, repair and upgrade costs. That's on something...

Politics aside, there was always a reasonably good business case for buying F35s, that gets worse as we muck around, just from the Canadian companies that supply parts and maintenance to the fleet. We could have bought them all under the old deal, parked them and never flown them and Canadian...

I think the NDP would do a lot better if they got back to their farmer/labourer roots. Paying people fairly for the work they do and treating them fairly when you get good/bad times goes a long way towards a lot of the social justice issues they get sidetracked with now. Both the NDP and CPC...

Moves like this is how you get point rated criteria to knock off points if the equipment includes ITAR listed components. The intent makes sense, the execution is terrible and way over reaching (ie down to common fasteners, o-rings etc). It also means that non-Amercian companies will...