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The key with getting 'new' helicopters will be to get them used from somewhere else than our southern neighbour. Y'know, like maybe buying the airframes that the US left behind in Afghanistan? Then we do an 'upgrade' to them? Or, maybe buy used SH-60s from Australia and refurbish them...

There are anecdotes about Flower Class Corvettes proceeding from the building slips in Canada to the UK with their first convoy, and only receiving their main armament once they arrived in the UK. Light weapons - sure, but no deck gun....

Honestly....I'm hoping to take work from whomever the 'pro' modeller is that's building ship models for the Navy....we'll see how that works out.

Here's how V2 is looking as of this afternoon. Tomorrow will see decks painted dark gray I hope.

I went to Lisgar back in the day....I was able to walk from school, through the main floor at NDHQ to the Rideau Center to catch a bus.

Deep thought.....is that what Trump's end-game actually is? Getting Europe to take responsibility for Europe? Convincing them to put 10K troops on the ground to 'deter' the US would actually act as a deterrent to anyone else, and would start making Europe pay their own way in terms of...

I head to bed after the wife does, so I usually pop on an episode of MASH then when that's over, switch to the fireplace channel at low volume for 'ambiance' for the night. At some point it switches over from a fireplace to waterfront/waves, and I imagine that as I get older, the 'running...

Yamato turret armour - shot with a 16" projectile. It's 26 inches of hardened (Face hardened I think?) Steel. Theoretically, a modern RPG-7 Tandem Charge warhead could penetrate this. Javelin (open source) says it could penetrate as well. AT-4 could not, nor can the M-72.

There was nothing between me and the ships on this fine morning when I had my 18ft Jet Boat out in the Harbour with a buddy of mine....we got some great photos.

While the Iowa class is impressive (I've visited a couple of them now) and the North Carolina is similarly impressive, and the Texas was neat, none of them would be truly practical to re-activate and put back in service. Especially when they'd literally have to build the industry that...

I'm enjoying that sound right now as well...joyous...

I just got notice on Friday that my SDA Audit has been completed and that I'm owed money from 2 deployments - 2005 and 2011. Plus incremental increase in SDA. For awareness, I'm no longer RegF Navy, I've transferred to the PRes Army and they finally got ahold of me through my OR. NS

Actually, there is an argument that the PPC actually DID have an effect on a number of ridings where the vote split let the Libs take a seat....I'll dig up a ref for that. Edit to add - it's not as simple as the split...but...

Hull #2 is progressing apace now....the first layer of gloss blue over the primer showed some flaws, so....more putty and sanding....and I'll see how she looks on Monday.

I'm not one of those 'cold dead hands' guys....at least not on the internet where my search and post history is publicly available.... ;-)