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From the Koreans... lol

When they do good work we don't notice because there are no problems, because that entire time you're probably dealing with the terrible work one. That 5% took 85% of my effort.

To replace the Sachsen class (F124) AAW frigates. I think they are adding BMD as part of their requirements as well (*reads article) yes they are adding BMD.

Yah, we started from much further behind as well. We've gotten our legs under us now, with multiple Coast Guard vessels and AOPV's built, JSS in fitting out and a second about 50% done. But its a long marathon to go.

They do want swap-able mission containers. This honestly looks like a super cut down in capability from the Constellation. No integral VLS, no integral ASW. Make sense if they want to build the thing in 3 years (2028 is what they were saying), the HFX class seem more capable at this point.

Exactly. Short work periods are scheduled in 1-2 years in advance. They fix things that broke on the last sail, wash and clean of machinery spaces and tanks, do the 6 monthly and yearly maintenance on equipment (like engines) or do things like inspections of naval ordinance on guns after they...

Amazing

I forgot to add my reference above: Noah's on the case with all the army rumours. https://noahscornerofrandomstuff.substack.com/p/this-week-in-defence-special-army New tank project is the Heavy Direct Fires Modernization Project.

Rumour mill is that the Tank Life Extention is dead and they are looking at a full MBT replacement, early 30's. As well the Medium Cavalry concept is going to be ~400 vehicles, tracked. The list of potential options are Ajax, CV90, Redback, Lynx though most serious people think the Ajax has to...

No....

As nostalgic as that is I'm pretty sure they can do better. Lol

What you said isn't incompatible with what I said. Ideas get cut. For example, the River Class has now gone from all the requirements the RCN needs in a single ship to all the requirements the RCN needs to the ships class. Example, naval gunfire support. I suspect that later flights of the...

I think they are looking at China's build speed and reorienting on the idea of a high low mix. Australia and UK are down that direction. Ukraine showed that stockpiles matter, as does build replacement speed. So having your super high end carriers, aircraft and destroyers augmented by lower...

This is standard stuff. Big ideas, then you hit the design phase and things get cut off the tree of ideas pretty quick. My future career goal is to work in that office. They need an engineer to keep them honest.