Recent content by Oldgateboatdriver

I don't get what your point would be @suffolkowner ? For frigates and destroyers, the British have always done major refit around 20 years of age in order to get about 5-6 more years out of them, then retire them. In Lancaster's case, that happened around 2012-13, so she should have retired her...

If you make this a priority and add "RFN" spirit to it now, you can have one in the water in four years and one every 8 months after that. It's a government call. The Brits started building corvettes as an emergency program 6 months before WWII, and had about 40 built before the war really...

Unless someone decides to get on with the Topshee CDC .... like....NOW!

I don't know who made that drawing, but if the bridge and the boats in their hangar are to scale, and the ship is in the 45-50 m range, then what the hell is that dinky toy thing on the stern???

That would be 3, for about $15M

Well, the First Sea Lord and the Secretary of State for Defense would be good places to start looking.

IOC 2032, FOC 2034

"No quarter" during military conflict, as far as I understand, implies that combatants would not be taken prisoner, but executed. I would assume most people agree this is illegal? You would be correct.

And yet, no wildfire has yet burned down a whole continent.

How easy do you think it is to take a flamethrower to a country that is about a fifth the size of the US, has about a quarter the US population and a little less than double the population density?

I am pretty sure that Admiral Topshee has stated some time ago that they 'locked-in" the design of the first three destroyers so they could get on with construction and delivery. I suppose you could call them "batch one" destroyers. But my understanding of his comments was that the design is...

That's par for the course for a country who actually believes its own stupid myth of exceptionalism. Just as in 1942 the US Navy didn't even want to listen to the RN and RCN (because, what do they know? We're the US, the best, most powerful;l, smartest navy in the world!) about organizing...

To quote Yes, Minister: "Minister, for an official to decide not to tell you something is a very heavy burden, whereof simply not telling you is simply department practice."

Thanks for the correction (which doesn't change the gist of what I said, just the timing of the Independence Act). I was mislead by a book by a commentator of the Canadian political scene (conservative whose name starts with Ratz..) who pined it to around early 1960's.