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The program is not new in and of itself. Plans were underway to have a joint class with the Brits before Brexit. It would have been a Queen Ekizabeth look alike but with catapults instead of STOVL set up (the French do not like STOVL, even though the Rafale-Mer does not need much of a push from...

In this one, even quantity hasn't got a quality of its own if you look at loses per square kilometers "annexed"

More or less. Ever heard of that little scrap they called WWI?

But, since you are there yourself at that time to make a withdrawal, that means you are

Because, at the time, it was, by far, the best damn thing on the water. But the "allies" we deal with all prefer to produce their own instead of buying the best ... and then turn around and sell at a loss to Arab countries or other third world nations to keep their yards going. Not to mention...

But what the Americans are getting in the end, is the Golden fleece.

We did just that, Colin. And it worked. But the Reg force only saw the "perma-shads" that were running the MCDV's and how they were getting no replacement - so made them either reg force or else - and lost the majority of reservists who were doing part time work BUT were providing harbour...

No its not. Short work periods happen for every single ship/submarine in the fleet after any extended deployments (i.e. more than a couple of months). That's the way ships/submarines work. And those short work periods do not last very long (two or three weeks, usually. Unless a specific part is...

The Legend class carries long range interceptor boat in a well at the stern. Covered over, that ought to be enough room for a CAPTAS.

You know, Kirkhill, you keep putting naval reservists in all sorts of roles and tasks. What makes you think that, where it takes about four to five years to qualify a regular force sailor/officer to become more useful to a ship than a learning burden on it, a naval reservist, not immersed in...

Oh! What a surprise! I think I'm going to have a heart attack from this surprise...

I am not going to go into "who's to blame" (especially not the lawyers, who are absolute, complete ignoramuses where any science or engineering is concerned, and simply follow what they are told to put in by the subject matter "alleged" experts), but ... while we do not have any yard in Canada...

I thought Patriot Games had already been done. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZWQ3Y2NiOGEtNjdmMS00ODI1LTk0ODktM2U3NjllNzlmZTkxXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg

They didn't want the constellation's to do that at the beginning. Aegis (as in the SPY radars) were not part of the original requirements, only AEGIS as a combat system for whatever would be fitted. The many upgrades to full SPY/AEGIS happened after the contract was let out. Not even the French...

Exactly. Ingalls did enter the original competition fo the contract with a derivative of the Legend class cutter modified to meet the requirements of the competition, but it was rejected in favour of the Italian FREMM. Both design -as presented - met the USN requirements for a frigate, but I...