Recent content by SeaKingTacco

Even Majors…

In other words: the casualty list got too big to hide, so we had better lean into this…

I am, in actual fact, an expert on ASW. Nearly 2000hrs in a Sea King will do that… :cool:

Nobody rational is going to set nuclear weapons into an autonomous vehicle. Even dictators won’t do that.

If they would reverse course on gun confiscation, the Liberals might run the table…

I see what you did, there…

Other TACCOs… ;) I am well aware of both wire guided torpedos and sub launched SAMs. Thanks. We don’t need to get particularly to a sub to get a kill any longer. There are ways…

That seems on brand…

As a Sea King TACCO (heh), the usual method of gaining contact in the simulator was either a missile plume or a torpedo bearing. Either way, it always resulted in a dead submarine, 100% of the time (either we were that good or…hey! Wait a second…)

There is one that I am aware that is an absolute work of art…

Especially for a SSK. Trying to clear a missile launch datum in anything other than a SSN is….sporty. Edit: now, if you have a really long ranged missile, that datum may not matter, because the bad guys can’t get to you in a timely fashion…

And the Arctic will try to kill you 9 ways to sunday…

This is an area where the Feds under Trudeau created a lot of mayhem by dealing with municipalities directly, instead of through the provinces. The feds aren’t totally to blame, but they did not help.

JTAC, no. FOO- yes.

I was a FAC in the 1990s and there was no strict currency requirement that I can recall. Possibly if you went longer than 6 months, the Bde FAC had to check you out again. I was in a place where I controlled so often that it never really came up, in my case. Once I stopped controlling, I...