Recent content by NavyShooter

I recall the 'Tammy Faye Baker' Make-up kit. A 5 gallon ice cream bucket and a scoop.

It was fairly busy when I was over yesterday - not very army-centric in the material on hand, which is not a surprise due to this being a Navy town. I was surprised to see TKMS hiding in a corner with only a small booth - I'd have thought they would have been a much larger footprint now that...

I went to DEFSEC today to see if there might have been one there. Nope. Lots of ship and sub stuff though.

Interesting - Quebec elects a bunch of folks who want to split from Canada, no-one bats an eye....Alberta tries to do something like that and everyone's up in arms about how illegal it is to even propose it and anyone who supports it is in cahoots and committing treason. Or, so it seems from...

Add the entire SM/LCMM office set that would need to be added to support another fighter jet.

Saw something about that yesterday - might be related? Iran wants to speak at the UN, but can't get there if they can't fly there? US Says "go talk to UN", then blocks their airline from getting fuel. Seems like a stupid way to run a country.

Often. From my experience at Returns. Not my problem anymore though..... got any busted optics that need attention? NVG's, Elcans, etc?

To add.... On a ship, let's say there's a gasket that needs to be replaced. The stokers head up to the stoker workshop on 3 deck, grab a strip of gasket material, bring a bit of that along with a hammer and a knife down to the space. They isolate the valve, drain the line into the bilge...

Remember that aircraft parts tracking and replacement is very different from that on ships. The aircraft maintenance records are very in depth - how many hours can the airplane fly with this gasket in place before it has to be replaced? If it's 47 hours, then at 45 hours they do the...

Yeah, I was talking with the guys in the weapons shop about them....I understand there are 'issues'.

6 boats for the Norgies means they can likely sustain 2 ish at a deployable status. They are most likely to keep their boats closer to home than we are - our boats will likely see longer transits to 'interesting' areas. Norway has lots of 'interesting areas' very close to home. One...

TBH, I think instead of all this worry about AIP via fancy chemicals, we'd honestly be better off looking into the small modular nuclear reactors that have been discussed in various spots. The new ones seem to be truck-sized and portable from a couple of reports I've read, so, that'd fit in...

Except that, like our 'decompression port' on the way home from Libya (CHA), they'll probably make the crew report for a turnover parade on the Saturday morning, so you can't really have the fun you want on Friday night, and then you're busy with your handover to the incoming ship that's tied up...

The issue at hand is not just their failure to effectively replace the OHPs, it's the subsequent retirement (ongoing - almost done) of their Ticos as well. Theoretically, the DDG-1000 series would have been a suitable replacement for the Ticos, and if they'd built more than just 3 of them...