Recent content by Rainbow1910

It's interesting to see folks elsewhere acting like the sky is falling and the RCAF has dove onto its sword in accepting a far inferior platform, when turbo-prop powered aircraft are fairly commonplace among international demonstration squadrons. Brunei, New Zealand, Thailand, Chile, Israel...

I would honestly disregard Sub Brief almost entirely as a reliable source of information, he's guilty of a lot of Wikipedia/SeaForces regurgitation and has some pretty questionable political leanings which spill heavily into his work at times. To say they are a serial bullshitter who sometimes...

There are our program figures to look at however without a substantially detailed breakdown of all of the costs alongside taking into consideration the industrial situation around building the aforementioned vessels, it's basically impossible to get a figure you can use to compare to foreign...

$5B is an incredibly strange figure that doesn't seem to fit with anything in the slightest, personally I'm discounting it at this point as inaccurate.

CCG colours look pretty sharp on AOPS.

I wouldn't look into this too deeply, it's politicians passing a hot potato back to the Navy. Nobody wants a split fleet of submarines, not the Navy, not the bidders and not any of the Government who has a lick of common sense left. The PM personally came out against this split fleet idea, so I...

I'd prefer if Davie actually got around to building something instead of offshoring everything, hoovering up more contracts and marketing themselves as a shipbuilding superpower lol.

Always surprises me how behind the news cycle a lot of legacy media figures really are, all of this info has been known by other sources in the open source community like Noah for sometime now.

That is true however, I think this concept is much more vulnerable than many other projects. - A Polar Class 2 "do it all" Arctic Mobile Base ship has never been done previously, leading to a lot of potential complications as PC2 requires a substantial amount of redundancy, strengthening, etc...

I would imagine a design such as this will have a robust self defence capability alongside a decent sensor suite, primarily due to as you mention the fact it will find itself alone most of the time. If you look at vaguely similar vessels to what is being proposed for AMB, you can see what I am...

None, the only Navy asset able to safely operate into ice is the AOPS and even that vessel isn’t capable of operating in the seasons you mention. It seems like they want a platform capable of going effectively anywhere in the Arctic whenever it is ultimately required. The only other vessel...

https://t.co/KVbCccAN4I Noah shared a very interesting post recently, I wasn’t entirely sure where it best fit so I am posting it here. Apparently the RCN is looking at procuring a pair of “Arctic Mobile Base” ships, which sound to be a true “Joint Support Ship” concept similarly in some...

If they didn't do it during the original conversion, I doubt they'll do it after the fact.

Yes and they are also buying multiple page spreads in relevant naval magazines as well recently, it seems they are becoming increasingly desperate to stop their leased gravy train from ending. Unless Davie plans to come down significantly on the ridiculous sale price they were floating...

https://breakingdefense.com/2026/04/europe-must-wean-off-addiction-to-us-military-swedish-defmin-says/ This language makes me wonder if GlobalEye is being focused on due to the fact the Gripen acquisition is being viewed as a dead end? Hopefully so.