Recent content by Rainbow1910

Because this "fighter review" is a political charade that nobody besides Lockheed Martin and Saab have even been invited to attend, none of the major European firms are dumb enough to refight another fighter competition against the F-35 when they know what the result will eventually be. Saab is...

I hold the competency, capability, funding resources and track record of Dassault and Airbus as far in excess of Saab. If we are looking for a partner, the French/Germans are a far better option in my opinion.

As I said in a prior post above, Saab is not the partner we want if we are looking at a broader strategy of industrial renewal in the military aerospace department. They have no experience in developing, building or supporting even last/current generation stealth platforms or large unmanned...

Given the context many people are talking about where the concern is the US cutting off access to key systems and grounding our aircraft, it very much is a binary. If you want increased sovereignty and control on the overall platform, sure the Gripen provides a better case than the F-35 at a...

Mogami was specifically designed around minimal crewing from the start, to the point where the ship can apparently operate with as low as 60 people onboard in a worst case scenario. This has been achieved by cutting "redundant" system controls throughout the ship, and basically routing literally...

Not especially, but given the insane penetrative capabilities of even older anti-ship missiles/bombs, it's obvious why armour completely fell out of fashion. An example of this would be the AGM-154 JSOW-C which is relatively small, but packs a pretty ridiculous punch given its BROACH...

Even older generation anti-ship missiles/bombs can have the physical size, warhead size and penetrative effects to make any historical battleship gun weep, alongside making any armour ever put to see effectively dead weight protection wise.

I disagree, I've been following this specific procurement debacle for over a decade at this point and the emotional arguments have only strengthened as time has went on, especially recently (not without some merit). Many people are frankly either misled or deluded into alternatives to the F-35...

Ironically it isn't even Billie Flynn's opinion but this "Ted Barnes on Facebook", I'd much rather people refute what is said rather than just strictly dismissing it all off who is saying it. Especially relevant when what is being said largely is true. Many people are acting entirely...

Not having reliable access out of your ports and along your coast/sealanes due to mines precludes your ability to realistically fight in the first place.

I'm not sure "small, cheap and disposable ships" are as relevant in the evolving world of mine countermeasures. Many of the old, smaller fibreglass/metal hulled physical minesweepers are still around however, navies have already moved away or are in the process of moving towards an unmanned...

Really isn't a surprise, the CDC hasn't been a Kingston class replacement for quite sometime. Topshee seems content with replacing the Kingston class's MCM missions with leased civilian vessels if required/CDC/AOPS acting as motherships.

It is strange looking for sure, however they have been using weird placeholder models for VLS for quite sometime regarding Mark 41. Amusingly as well, the NSM launchers have either been removed from the rendering like the main gun, or have been hidden below the deck in a similar “pop-up”...

It's also something to consider that Topshee specifically said this vessel will not be an icebreaker, but will be ice strengthened for operations in/around ice equivalent to Polar Class 6~. They can get away with some savings over an actual icebreaker at those sorts of levels and they will...

Presumably it wouldn't be the RCN making the design itself, but it would be a clean sheet design contracted out to a partner like Vard most likely, maybe Davie (big maybe on a clean sheet warship design given their experience). Topshee has been fairly clear that he wants our own design to avoid...