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These will never ever be public knowledge. Submarine deployments are very secret. However it's clear from open source documentation that one east coast, one west coast and one submarine on each entrance to the NWP (east and west) is the ideal availability. JSS were designed to be submarine...

Yah I had to dive over the top of the bar to evade the furniture once. Lucky I didn't break anything (on myself or anywhere else).

https://defense-update.com/20221019_sea-spider.html There's a decent article on the system. Basically as torps get more sophisticated in their tracking and targeting decoys and evasion manouvers get less effective. So hard kill is likely more important. The main problem is detection of a torp...

Its FER/FTA's part ship. Honestly I wish @Navy_Pete was helping me out here. He's got the full inside scoop on it and worked in the area for a while. Some of this might be new data/research, and some of it might just be "we used to know this stuff and forgot along the way".

ATTT anti torp torp torp? But as funny as it is, there isn't an Air Defence Missile Defence Missile for aircraft is there.

This is it. I guarantee one big fire in a mess and all that fire loading get jettisoned across the fleet. I think AOPS has it right with fire resistant cafeteria and smaller messes without as many combustibles. Little chance of things getting out of hand in there.

I don't think the CERA or CPO are going to do much. They are not the knowledge holders on that stuff. The fire loading thing is held by the Officers and Civi's at FMF. Its pretty nitche. There needs to be a full education blast on it from FER likely. @Navy_Pete IIRC could speak much better...

I find it hard to believe the MSEO is going around the ship demanding that stuff for the messes. More likely they are fighting a losing battle with the XO and Coxn. Which is usually the case in my experience. Because they don't know, nor do they seem to care judging moral a higher priority...

Yah the name is stupid. ATT for short. But if they get it to target correctly... its going to completely revolutionize torpedo defence. Canada has been on the ground floor of this system for years. Magelean makes the rocket motors for the ATT (yes they are rocket propelled) and Atlas Electronik...

Creative as they might be, for both of those modifications today I would have recommended administrative action at a minimum, or stomped them down quickly. Adding a fridge in a mess deck is a violation of about 4 policies two safety ones for electrical, one health and safety from the PMed side...

IDAS isn't operational yet, they keep talking it up but I don't think anyone has fielded it. Tyrfing is in the same boat... haha. Those aren't questions they are just glossy brochure stuff that Canada doesn't care about at this time. The one thing that is in development that we do care about...

Four SPEIR were purchased. So three for the ships and one for training. Its the one you labeled on the first image (Mk 20 ?? label). Those squares are likely spotlights (not which is why there is one on each wing and one astern). Not entirely sure what other things you labeled are on the...

The army threads all seem to devolve into reorg conversations. The navy ones always end up arguing about ship names! Lol I think most if the post game analysis on the sub program is probably done at this point. Tune in next for contract agreement in 6-12 months (I expect it to be done in Nov...

That alone will probably make a bunch if people happy. Lot of maint types are NOT impressed with Babcock. Of course maint types are never happy. Even me... I can be a real asshole.

We can revisit this in (takes off shoes to count) more than ten years. It will be 8 years till we get four.