Recent content by Oldgateboatdriver

Why did you have to mention that? Why did you have to mention that ? Have you heard anything about gun control or this program from Carney since he became PM? I think he is letting that die on the vine quietly and not mention a word, keeping his fingers crossed that there...

Are actual submariners playing against you as the simulated submarine, or other TACCO's? Lets see here: 1) You do know that submarines have the capability of slowly deploying a torpedo a couple of miles (or more, perhaps?) away in a direction opposite to where they are before turning it into...

Not surprised. With a little TLC, those things are near impossible to kill. Had I been on the West coast after my retirement, I might have bought one just for the pleasure of turning it into a real, moving, boat house (much cheaper than any Victoria or Vancouver living!).

A SSK with AIP can still clear datum at about 20 kts for about five or six hours, but the beauty is after that, they don't have to surface to recharge. Just go to loiter mode. And an AIP SSK loitering around at three kts makes about as much noise as a hole in the water. If they have deep diving...

Last summer, I saw an old YAG turned into a personal yacht in Victoria harbour. It floated. I don't know if it could move. I know it definitely couldn't fight.

We have not historically named our submarines after fish. Rainbow was an outlier, and was so named after the first cruiser of the RCN. CC-1, CC-2, CC-14, U-190 and Grilse were definitely not named after fishes, nor were any of the "O" boats or VIC's.

Then would you settle for a Frontenac class to muddle things up a bit? Here's the historical reason, for those history buffs around here: When they named vessels after cities and towns in WWII and Kingston's turn came around, they couldn't name the ship for the city of Kingston by the city name...

I just saw PM MC on TV last night saying that basically, our military budget would quadruple over the next ten years. However, like Underway, I have yet to see or hear of any plan for how Ottawa intends to manage the expansion and training of the personnel we will need for all those new shinny...

Paying-off's are always sad, but are part of naval life (not as much in Canada since we stretch the period of commission way too long). The only thing I would have changed on that invite is that I would have made the picture at the bottom one of a MCDV sailing into the sunset.

Some missiles acquisitions being looked at for the RCD's are land strike missiles. If we are going into that rabbit hole, then extending similar capability to our submarines would not be either a strategic or tactical addition, but merely a second platform to fulfil a mission we have already...

Not aware that even the Americans use a Gold/Blue crew system for their attack boats. Only for the Ballistic Nuclear launching ships, so the deterrent is maintained. I don't think Canada would consider that just for SSK's either.

Which would be perfect as, at first, JSS 1 and 2 could rotate into a mid-life refit. Then about 10-15 years later, JSS 5 and 6 get built. JSS 1 and 2 get retired (at about 25-30 years old), while JSS 3 and 4 go into mid-life refits in rotation. And you finally achieve one of the original...

That is absolutely pathetic.

Can you imagine what that does for morale if you are a National Guard member, called out from your civilian job because of an alleged "emergency" crime situation in DC and you end up doing that for most of your day?

And guess who is the last shipyard that built something like that in Canada. That's right ..... Davie. And it looked like this at the launch: