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I was in those meetings a long time ago, as far as I remember the design for A jetty accounted for River class. Lessons learned for B jetty is pretty standard. A jetty was to nest River class anyways, so there would be two of them. A lot more nesting is going to happen as the RCN gets bigger...

Protecteur's home will be B jetty. It's not like any other ships really used A Jetty that much. My concern is the lack of ability to go alongside at the ammo jetty. That's gonna be one big PITA for ammoing the ship by barge. From the orginal Protecteur's experience it taks at least a week at...

So submarines... they like... go underwater and stuff.

Or he was just saying what he was thinking. Its part of the charm of VAdm Topshee.

Slow clap. Good catch and well done. If they go with two fleets this will be held up by the opposition as a weapon and Carney will be beaten with it. I agree, only one fleet will be purchased.

Possibly. Most governments keep their foreign relationships relatively stable over time, particularly where billions in military contracts are at stake. If Germany were to do something like that (outside of an emergency) they would lose their international market for submarines. Even with a...

Unless its a government to government contract. Norway and Germany could agree to say give Canada boat three of their build, and then six etc... So we end up with a few boats early and a bunch later on. If its a Canada to TKMS contract yes, we'll likely have to wait for the first boat...

You can't until 2027. 5 years after you spent 6+ months in China. China is a red flagged country. And you, as an applicant who isn't in the military or security services at this time is at the bottom of the pile for the folks who do the security clearances.

I'm thinking its more Fentynol. That's a dissasociative drug. I think we have the talent to design for sure. Not sure if we have the capacity to build that fast. And people is where the drugs come in. Edit: on re-reading the arcticle I'm not sure if they meant we'll start building in 10...

End of Nov I was told.

Your Canadian citizenship will not waive the pre-enrollment security clearance requirements, whoever told you that is incorrect. It doesn't matter what citizen you were, Canadian or otherwise, as you were living in China for longer than 6 months in the last 5 years. I would wait out as your...

Of course not. PRes is as always regional and how this works in each region will likely differ. Consider this a warning order. Standby for GI.

I can't belive I missed this article you posted. Its excellent In particular I like the summary for the difference between the two submarines.

Sea ceptor launchers are very short and because of their cold launch capability are very compact. Mk 41 launchers (that currently exist) are much too long to fit into the same space as where the ExLS was going to be without losing a good chunk of the mission bay. AFAIK that space is either...

Two of the most interesting sections of the article. This basically means that Canada negotiates directly with SK or Norway+Germany for the submarines instead of the company. It also means that Canadian tech slowly gets added to the platform for all the submarines of that type that are being...