Recent content by newfin

Well, 14 has never seemed like enough. I haven't heard if Poillievre has said if he supports the purchase of the extra 2 airframes. But I hope he does. He wants a base in Iqaluit for better Arctic Sovereignty enforcement; 6 more P8A airframes would be a good place to start to bolster that...

Maybe we are never getting subs because we will not be able to afford them. We are curently $62 billion dollars in the hole for a single year and a trade war started today. What Trump is going to do to our economy when added to the last 9-10 years of spending like it's someone else's money...

Wikipedia shows: "Martha L. Black-class icebreakers built in 1985-1986, 3 × V16-251F per ship, 8,847hp" so what engines are being installed as part of this VLE?

Two years is very optimistic. This project is going to be so expensive and so full of potential to balloon in price, that every future Canadian federal government will want to avoid making that decision like the plague. This is a classic case of; "require 8-10, reduce it to 6-8, place the...

This warship building programs trouble was created and begun around the same time as Trudeau the 1st came on the scene. Since then, every single federal government (maybe Mulroney is the only exception, or perhaps was the least damaging) has completely or nearly completely ignored the military...

If that were GT giving him the finger wag, he'd give speeches about how honoured he was to be berated by such Lefty Royalty. It would occupy an entire chapter in his upcoming memoirs; it would be referred to on the future Talk Circuit - a humourous reference to particular time during his years...

I’d prefer that it said RCAF instead of “Government of Canada”

Looks like this is moving forward as we speak:

I wanted to give 2 thumbs up. One for St. Jordan and one for Sir Merle. My Dad had that Merle Haggard Tribute album to Jimmie Rodgers and he played it over and over. 2 thumbs up!

How has the work been progressing on the JSS? I read in a post a few months ago on here that a strike at Seaspan had halted construction. HAs the strike been resolved and construction resumed? Our navy needs that ship desperately.

I thought you were going to say they asked about sexual misconduct. Or how people of colour are mistreated in the RCAF. Or how he plans to recruit and accommodate LGBTQ members. Or how he plans to do to recruit, promote and retain more Indigenous members. Or what pronouns he prefers. We are...

Strange but true..... Today, while vacationing with my family on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, I looked offshore and saw what looked like a naval vessel in the distance. I said to my son, "That looks like a Harry DeWolf class ship!" I instantly recognized the two large recesses in the side...

It's there, the tail. It's laying on it's side in the right of the photo. The object farthest to the right on the CBC article.

I’m not sure if Kirkhill is supporting that those two vessels are similar or not. But to me they look very similar. Move the main bridge structure forward and remove a RAS station and you are left with a ship with a larger flight deck. Even the rake of the bow is similar.

I agree that long-term, 3 yards are probably one too many. However, the reality is we need ships now and this helps get them faster. And throwing money around because of election politics is as old as the country itself. What's different about this scenario is that this time the money is...