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If the NDP win the next election will we see an end to this shipbuilding strategy and another black period for the Forces in general.

For Info;  Irvings Halifax Shipyard has begun completely flattening 3/4 of its site and construction has begun on a completely new expanded site including a huge building hall that towers to a height of 16 stories high and is several football fields long. New piers are being built at a cost of...

Make a list of all the Navy's in the world of any importance that don't have Submarines. There aren't any. Take a good look at all countries sub programs and you would see that they all have problems and many are worse than ours.  The Aussies built 6 brand new boats instead of buying the boats...

You could talk to your guidance councilor at your school for info on RMC or ROTP how to apply & whats required. You could go to any Forces recruiting centre and talk to them , even take some apptitude tests that should let you know if you are suitable to be a cook or a pilot.

Using a AOPS hull form for other types of ships is makes about as much sense as entering a chuckwagon in the INDY 500. The AOPS uses a single hull optomized for slow speed in ice. The hull uses reinforced specially shaped hull form to ride up on then break thru ice. This shape makes it a lousy...

There is also the small  "n"  option which was being worked on a few years back by Canadian researchers of putting a low power nuc in a diesel boat with just enough power output to keep its batteries charged up indefinately. This was dropped as too expensive an option to convert the Victoria's...

Maybe Arctic patrol vessels , tankers and some CG vessels will get built fairly soon but any new Frigates will be lucky to be built in under 15-20 years  from now so there's no reason to rush to release centre. Remember JSS & FWSAR  were no1 priorities 10 years ago and I don't see very many of...

The RFA FORT GEORGE is a single hull tanker hull and thus in a couple years will be banned from most of the worlds ports for not meeting new standards coming into effect , which is one of the reasons the Brits are retiring it.

I would think that a updated  CCGS Henry Larsen  would be far better than  a Labrador type.  But this ship is probably a lot more ice capable then called for in a AOPS.  Also a ships hull maximized for ice is usually terrible seaboats in open ocean.  Although the Larsen has plenty endurance ...

Not all Leopard 2's are in Montreal  there was a leopard 2a4 at the Shearwater air show still in Dutch paint job. As an interesting aside the Leopard C2 demo (firing blanks while on move) had to be cancelled on the second day of the airshow because a kid crawling around the tank broke it...

SQS-510 is merly an uprated SQS-505 (more solid state) which was carried on IRE'S During a recent tour of a IRO class a crewman showed me the garbage storage area where the VDS 510 had been removed. he stated it was because they now had Nixie (ha ha) which did a better job. Vds a Canadian...

One thing i've noticed in all the discussion of Felex  update is NO discussion at all of anti-submarine at all. Have subs dissappeared from the equation alltogether.  Is the Halifax class soldiering on with sonar that was onboard modernized Restigouche class ships 30 years ago or was a new HMS...

When posters on this subject state that they don't have much knowledge of Naval Matters that was an understatement to say the least.  To keep 4400 sailors deployed on ships would take 15,000 if not more in the Navy.  Everyone failes to take into account or just ignore things such a training ...

The Absalon class while pretty has to looked at a little more critically. She is built to Merchant ship standards not Naval. As a Frigate she is too slow - Max speed 23 kts on diesels. As an AOR this vessel receives oil does not despence it. As an anphib its well deck holds only small boats...

I notice that the number has now dropped from 3  to 2 with an option for a third, so in other words we will be lucky if we get 2. As to when god only knows remember the original announcement was in 2004. Note;  The AOPS program has been delayed no idea when it will be on track. Cheers

This poor soul is more sad than hardcore.  She has been convicted of swindling Pizza Hut and 7-11 out of 314.17  so i doubt she could finance too much terror . Her lady who lived across the hall says she spends time yelling and drilling her persian cats.  She also says she's never seen her in...

And will they come with all the gearbox problems that plague the civilian s-92. The saga continues.

What truly amazes me about this is the speed at which this project proceeded from first thought to actual keel laying. Canada on the other hand is all talk, talk , talk, talk and no action for 25 years if anything comes to reality even if is approved in the first place. Frustrating.

One would have thought that Crown assets could have disposed of this at a much greater profit than they appearently got. Boggles the mind but doesn't really surprise me given Gov. mismanagement. Cheers

Doesn't anyone find it strange that it took till the 100 aniversary of the Navy for the great minds at NDHQ to decide that suddenly sailors had to shave beards to get a seal on various masks. I spent many years as a firefighter, fire team leader and helo rescue firefighter plus gone through gas...