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Observation: "Constant upgrades to aircraft and sensors, and a best-in-class sustainment program are key to the MH-60R aircraft’s unparalleled mission capability, mission availability and flight readiness. Lockheed Martin’s Performance Based Logistics program for U.S. Navy MH-60R helicopters...

The question then becomes, what's the loadout look like for the MK 41. 24 cells gives some flexibility. Especially with the Quad pack ESSM - if you dedicate 10 cells to that for self defense, that's 40 ESSM, plus 14 other missiles, split up between the SM series for long range, Tomahawk, and...

UGV's would be the simplest solution - no Transport Canada certification required like you'd probably need with UAS. Grab a Gator, knock out the seats and put a 200 gallon tank on it with a fire monitor system, have a 10 gallon "OMG" reserve tank with a self-sprinkling capability for escape if...

There's an guy I follow on social media who applies a 72 hour rule to everything that he discusses. In the first 72 hours, there's so much confusion, so many partial and incomplete reports, and media seems to run with the story as soon as they've got a headline, not once they've got the facts.

The tales from 111 were....sobering. One example was of a recovered 'glove' that was not a glove. Another was of a silicone implant that was found floating on the shoreline and recovered. It had a serial number on it so that it was able to be traced back and identification applied. The guys...

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...