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I’m wondering if they’re still going to go for 20 of them at that level. I was thinking if it was something like an upgraded RN RIVER, that would be more likely. Now 🤷‍♂️

I haven’t seen any discussion on this yet. But these pics are from Seaspan’s pavilion (I didn’t take these, I believe they’re Noah’s). It’s purportedly the Seaspan pitch for the CDC program. I didn’t see much in the way of details included in the fb posting.

Apologies for the side trip…

Oh brother, I feel your pain. I drive for OC and you just described every day of my working life. I mean, it’s fantastic that they want to make cycling safer and more appealing, I’m all for that. As near as i can tell they are attempting to make driving downtown so irritating that people will...

Who then lost the paper and someone tried to recreate it from the 4 year old’s buddy’s description…

Ottawa resident here. If you want a weekend sanity trip, keep this place off your shopping list…

This is a brilliant post. I think we all get so excited thinking about the future fleet, that we lose track of the current worthiness and value of the existing system, along with its deficiencies. If war is coming before we have a significant amount of new vessels crewed and in the water, then...

If you were going the adapt to purpose route with a baseline ice hardened/strengthened hull and you wanted space for elevators/storage/whatever, you could get all that essentially in an UMIAK type arctic freighter. The weakness here is in redundancy, with one propulsion plant, shaft and prop...

That’s such an unfortunate oversight in the execution of the vessel. As far as I know, and I certainly stand to be corrected, the propulsion, hotel systems and accommodations as well as the ability to transfer and store provisions (without a native help, notwithstanding) are all successfully...

Not being a naval engineer, I’m wondering how difficult it is to install baffles in the tanks now or at a refit in the near future? Is it a huge endeavour that makes it not worth it or is it a feasiblility?

While that’s impressive, I’d be more entertained by someone waterskiing in front of a Halifax class.

I guess in that hypothetical TG I was referring to, you’d have the option to go with whatever seemed appropriate in any given scenario. No doubt it’ll be a leap forward to have that kind of layering in place.

I’m still wondering if the 57 on a Halifax with its higher rate of fire is more or less effective than a 127 against these types of attacks. I mentioned before that once a RCD leads a TG, it’ll be party composed of a CPF or two. How will these two systems complement each other in these scenarios?

It gets me thinking about about how two platforms working together might deal with these kind of airborne threats. The first task force that an RCD might lead would likely have 2 HALIFAX class as well. How effective is the high fire rate 57 and the phalanx at dealing with drones? Could be that...

With the proliferation of airborne threats these days, I’d like to have 2 of the 21 cell units, fed by the ship’s sensors.