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Replacing the Subs

I still have my HP21 scientific and HP10b2+ financial calculators. They both use RPN (though less for the financial calculator because it has its own formulae for business.) My sons are completely baffled when they watch me calculate something with the HP21.
 
Best calculator I had was a HP-15C using RPN

I was introduced to it in conjunction with a proprietary programmable integrated circuit controller. Fibre boards with transistors programmed by connecting terminals with jumpers. The counters, timers and logic were all based on RPN and the logic drawings read from right to left.

One step beyond Turing's vacuum tubes.
The next step was Boolean.

Oh how happy I was when industry settled on ladder logic. But even there, there were quirks. Allen Bradley read their programs left to right then top to bottom IIRC while Modicon read theirs top to bottom then right to left. Programs had to be rewritten for different controllers with their different clocks.
 
I still have my HP21 scientific and HP10b2+ financial calculators. They both use RPN (though less for the financial calculator because it has its own formulae for business.) My sons are completely baffled when they watch me calculate something with the HP21.

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I still have my HP21 scientific and HP10b2+ financial calculators. They both use RPN (though less for the financial calculator because it has its own formulae for business.) My sons are completely baffled when they watch me calculate something with the HP21.
I think the 21 was the first calculator with a function key. In high school, some of us were in awe of our Algebra teachers’ HP21. Sad to say, it was years before any teacher allowed a scientific calculator in class.
 
Hanwha ramping up the charm offensive:

I take the SK over the Germans on two things, faster delivery of more than one sub and far more meaningful industrial cooperation and military defence spending. As a conciliation prize, we can order new leopard tanks from Germany and the Oerlikon Skyranger gun system.
 
I see that Noah is reporting that Hanwha and Babcock Canada are formalizing things.

I wish them well but I am mindful of the best CF18 support offer being made by Bristol Aerospace of Winnipeg.
 
I can't help when I read this new article, to think of the old mantra in business/investing, 'If something looks to be to good true or sounds to good to be true, walk away from it'.

South Korean shipyard sweetens its submarine sales pitch to Canada​



Hanwha has offered to construct two submarine “sustainment” facilities on both coasts and also envisions a manufacturing facility in Canada to build tanks, rockets, howitzers and resupply vehicles

Hanwha wants “to have the entire life cycle” of the subs, “support, maintenance, all of that,” operated “in Canada by Canadians” for “decades to come.”

Every time Hanwha has a meeting with Canadian officials, it appears to update its game plan for selling Canada on the KSS-III, its lithium-ion powered sub model

Hanwha says that if Canada signs a contract next year, it can leverage its massive shipyard capacity — totalling five kilometres square — to build four KSS-III submarines by 2035, with the first to be delivered 2032.

The company claims this could allow Canada to avoid $1 billion on repairs by retiring the Victoria subs early
 
I can't help when I read this new article, to think of the old mantra in business/investing, 'If something looks to be to good true or sounds to good to be true, walk away from it'.
SK builds factories in Canada to help it get into the Re-Arm Europe?
The CAF needs a lot of things the SK's aren't interested in making or selling - and Canada's own acquisitions are not generally that large - so conceivably they would have a lot of spare capacity - which also benefits SK as Canada is globally positioned not to be the center of any ground combat - unlike Europe or their home...
 
I am officially boarding the Korea train. They really want this.

EDIT: I have just realized @Czech_pivo posted the CTV article earlier.

“We’ve talked about everything from energy co-operation to battery co-operation to … other areas where Hanwha is particularly strong, like infantry-fighting vehicles and howitzers," said Hanwha Global Defense CEO Michael Coulter in an interview with The Canadian Press.

“We know that there’s a requirement in the Canadian military for howitzers. The offering has evolved beyond submarines because what the Canadian government is looking for is beyond submarines. It’s true industrial capacity in Canada.”

The company points to what it calls a “friend-shoring” initiative which saw it open an armoured vehicle plant in Geelong, Australia a year ago. The company says roughly 1,000 employees now work there building fighting vehicles and self-propelled howitzers.

It’s angling for something similar in Canada. Hanwha has offered to construct two submarine “sustainment” facilities on both coasts and also envisions a manufacturing facility in Canada to build tanks, rockets, howitzers and resupply vehicles.

“On a submarine program, it is a decades-long endeavour to maintain and support that,” Coulter said.

He said Hanwha wants “to have the entire life cycle” of the subs, “support, maintenance, all of that,” operated “in Canada by Canadians” for “decades to come.”

 
I do not think Canada should be or is especially interested in a lot of the other South Korean offerings pitched here however, the submarine deal itself seems very good and only gets better seemingly by the day.
 
I think @KevinB touched on a key element of the Korean offer.

It is self serving.

It is in Korea's interest to offshore their supply chains. Their factories and shipyards are too close to their enemy.

Also they need to secure a resource base that they lack. Coal, oil, LNG, graphite, iron, copper, lithium, slilca, beef, pork, chickens, canola, wheat, cheese.

They are in the market for it all.

And as an entrepot for Canadian goods into Asia they could replicate Amsterdam, London, New York, Hong Kong and Singapore.

In case nobody else has noticed the rest of the world thinks that we are rich.
 
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