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I think its going to entirely be contract, build schedules and GERNOR giving us some of their current build sched ships. These aren't the folks who talk about upgrades and such, this is the business, lawyer and diplomat crowd.

I msg'd him about some of his arbitrary choices. Pointed out that a lot of the weapons listed on there are not Deep Strike ones (like Direct Fire AT weapons or short range mortars etc...). Not sure where the line is but I would argue if it doesn't go beyond 25nm (horizon at sea, approx 40km)...

That makes sense. It will be well into Seapan's CCG build cycle.

So they are choosing to never get promoted. Unless Log is waiving that requirement now for Sea Log. Well that's a thing I guess.

The wet and dry list has existed since I joined, it was always unofficial and informal, though recognized by leadership out loud eventually (2007 approx). Now its formalized in a different way. You can join the Staff officer stream at any point in time in the new org . And as far as "never...

And yet you didn't list the 3rd busiest port in Canada on that list. Prince Rupert. Vancouver, Montreal, Prince Rupert, Halifax, Saint John in that order. If Churchill approaches Hamilton's volume that will be a win...

Still need to get that, Baby Log and Log O tour. Its been like that for decades. What's changed?

OK lets all take a breath here. Rheinmetall just this year... in March... entered the naval shipbuilding market with the purchase of NVL (Naval Vessels Lursen). You'll note then that this is their first ever ship design in the new company. So what's the motivation here? Marketing plain and...

They are producing NWO's at a record rate right now. However they changed all the training to do so. You're OFP when you finish your MARS 4 or whatever its called. Matching all the other trades in the CAF. And they've significantly streamlined the post BWK process. No more NOPQ boards...

We always look at NATO. Take a look at Australia, Japan and Korea for other comparables. Then you need to compare what the "frigates" actually are for capability. Some are short range national water types of ships. Australia is a good comparable, however their requirements have them...

Arctic is shallow. Finding an anchoring area where dynamic positioning is irrelevant works. Ideally that's better than dynamic. 4 is the correct answer. 6 is too many given current expected fleet numbers and mission sets. If Canada had significant overseas responsibilities then 6 would be...

Mine hunters are not really an issue. With ships taken up from trade launching UUV's to search for and take out mines. If you can build a lot of minehunting UUV's then the rest is pretty easy.

This is super cool news. This is perfect timing given the new sub announcement.

I honestly think that once we get going with JSS we're going to unlock a lot of submarine support options we didn't know were available. We'll have to see. If its a choice between fleet./sub tenders and two more JSS its gotta be two more JSS. That would round out the fleet quite well even if...

You are overthinking things. Submarines are not going to be "assigned" to any particular region aside from the coast they are ported in. Their deployments will depend on any number of eventualities and changes. Ships/boats by their very nature are flexible. The current use case is as I...