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Sure, then we'll get a ship 2042 instead of 2032. Too far down the rabbit hole now. Already have the LBT Facility being built, the trade changes are being implemented and the first sets of radars and equipment purchased.

The RCN knows that the frigate to destroyer transition will be difficult. It's timing could barely be worse. It also comes at a time where we are facing large personnel challenges, both retention and training ones. This is a wicked problem, and frankly similar ones are being felt by most 1st...

L band is on German, Dutch and Danish AAW frigates. UK uses L band on their carriers. L band is common enough for long range air volume search. NATO doctrine recommends one radar for volume search and one for tracking, and ships that like to do very long range air search use L band. I don't...

Its a bigger ship, more beam and length. We've been over this. There were some sacrifices for those extra missile (among them speed, maneuverability, power, seakeeping). The large diamond at the bottom of the pattern is an L-Band addition to the normal CEAFAR S-band (diamonds across the top)...

CEAFAR/CEAMOUNT are very light relative to their size. That's all the good things I've ever heard about them from Australians.

I think we're playing with words a bit on the operational ratios. You need 4 boats to have one constantly at sea doing mission work. You need 3 boats to have one available (but not necessarily at sea, perhaps alongside as ready duty). RCN wants (ideally) three boats always at sea. One for...

When you have a launcher you can do lots of things with it. Surviellance drones, UUV's (though probably those are better through the torp tubes), decoys whatever works.

Never present a throwaway COA. Ever. That's bad planning (as I found out at a very inoportune moment in my career, lesson learned... lol). Though sometimes your third COA looks very similar to one of the other two. No, Canada isn't looking for ballistic missiles, but we are looking for land...

Based on the DIS then sure, jobs. Does that translate into seats we'll have to see. Why are we all talking like this is a bad thing? Because we were burned before? It's different than finding a Canadian supplier to do something new on someones kit. This is Canadian suppliers to reproduce and...

For $60 billion you're damn right Cabinet decides the winner. This is entirely what we elected these people for, to make the big decisions for good or ill. And with a budget line that big, I would expect nothing less than a cabinet decision. As far as RCN needs. Both submarines already meet...

Yah, they increased the SIP. Overall the total number of signalers over last year is higher, but because of the SIP increase the percentage is lower. Its really hard to recruit for signals if it isn't SIG TECH, IS TECH or LINE TECH.

BAE Mk 45 mod 4 likely. As far as Lionfish replacement goes there are plenty of options. Unfortunate as I'm a big Vulcano fanboy.

Large clips are holding the blocks together for alignment until they can be welded. Sort of like ship surgical staples. So stitched is a good analogy.

Version of the same periscopes that the Koreans use IIRC. Safran makes good stuff.

Not even remotely close to the SIP. 5800 people is about 1500 less than the entire recruiting targets for this entire year. Are you referring to 5800 short of our approved staffing levels for total members in the CAF? Because if that's very different than "target numbers". CAF targets are...