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I notice that he fails to mention that Davie is years behind and millions over budget on a couple of car ferries for the Quebec Gov.

Has anyone else noticed That the largest highest capacity shipyard in Canada Had the entire bridge structure for the Resolve built outside the country in Finland thus employing many Finish workers thus exceeding Irving employing foreign workers.

What everyone seems to have forgotten in this is the gov asked shipyards for ideas for a interim AOR and when they replied .The Davie was picked But no one here has ever looked at or critiqued or looked at the other proposals. The  Irving proposal was half the cost and was for a sale not a...

People have a tendency to make mountains out of molehills . Irving has a 96 percent local workforce. I have worked at 5 different shipyards and they have all been staffed by a united nations of workers. Just watched a documentary about a giant shipyard in Korea that is building several large...

Where does some of the info on the T-26 come from. I do not say its wrong just that it does not agree with what I have seen. 6000 tons not 8000. Will power plant be a disaster like the T-45 and its quoted speed is slower than the Halifax class . It does not have a Air defence version so what...

Canadian Government Glossary. Open and transparent= Secret , under the counter , keep media and public out of picture at all costs.

HI i guess i have had a very easy time of it. I went to my local COSTCO  had a hearing test by an audiologist not a doctor who gave me a signed report. I called veteran affairs tollfree number and they infoed me to online site and what forms to fill out. My wife who is more literite than i went...

I watched the MND being interviewed on news channel and i didn't know weather to laugh or cry. I was amazed that he managed to keep a strait face while sprouting drivel while the host had a hard time not laughing at him. Next came the defence critics from the 3 partys . The libs & cons...

I said BOATS not ships. There are several NUC  boats that advertise a top speed of 25 kts except for short bursts and several others that don't advertise because of op security. Cheers.

Chris thanks for clarification. Still 2,400 nm at 27kts is still impressive as there are NUC  boats out there that couldn't do that.  Fluff piece or not there seems to be a lot more details on this vessel than the other frigates in the running  for our competition .  Cheers

I must say i was very impressed that the Iver Huitfeldt was able to steam 9,400nm  across the atlantic at an average speed of 27kts and not run out of gas. The vessel can sail across from Europe to America and back again and still have fuel left over. This would cut down on the number of RAS'S...

I  am afraid the answer to that question is still years in the future . That program is at the back of a long line SAR  aircraft, frigates and fighters that have draging on for years and years and it seems no one can make a decision. Surprise    Surprise.    Cheers

HMCS Windsor departed Halifax Sept. 12 in company with a French and an  American nuc boats and 10 surface ships from NATO for largest ASW exercise off east coast in 20 years .  Several different types of RCAF and contracted aircraft will also be involved over the nxt 10 days.

Does this mean that project Resolve could end up late and over budget.  Gee in the promo video put out by Davie all the workers they talked too just loved it there  like money is no object they just working for so great a employer.

I think i would rather have 6 new subs in the works than 24 new corvettes . More bank for the buck. Remember there are subs and everything else is a target. Toodles 

It would seem to me that if you are getting ships back from shipyards  in such poor condition that is the fault of the Navy not the shipyards. I spent several years on the Navy trials team and we tested every ship that came out of refit at 5 different shipyards over that time and would refuse...

Canada over the years has bought many pieces of kit and instead of letting well enough alone decided to Canadianize them (read screw them up ) so this is no surprise.  OGBD note that many of the CG screw ups were built on the west coast so its not always the shipyard that is the problem but...

We have yet to issue a list of requirements. We have yet to issue a request for proposals. The Pre qualified bidders have yet to submit their proposals. We have yet to pick one of these ship designs. Despite this we already are wineing that 29 billion is not enough. Seems to be negative...

The Queenstons will also be double hulled tankers as reqd by international law while the others are container ship conversions which may not meet the new laws and thus banned from many world ports. Most of the worlds navys are getting rid of there single hulled AORs because of this. IE the RN...