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Can you imagine what that does for morale if you are a National Guard member, called out from your civilian job because of an alleged "emergency" crime situation in DC and you end up doing that for most of your day?

And guess who is the last shipyard that built something like that in Canada. That's right ..... Davie. And it looked like this at the launch:

I suspect that at some point, the RCN will have to relent on its current method where every ship sits at its own jetty, and accept that, as in olden days, some ships or subs will have to nest together. NAD has enough room at the current jetty to accommodate 4 submarines individually, plus there...

Except that the water from Nimitz also glows in the dark.

TKMS can't even do that for their own navies and it is a slow rate production. How they basically kick production up three fold and keep everyone's schedule is beyond me. But I would be happy to be proven wrong. No, ALL companies hide their specs. There isn't a single submarine out there for...

I agree, for two reasons: 1) even if we pick the 212CD (nay variant), there is no way they can be delivered on time; and, 2) I can see the Koreans offering to build up a much greater infrastructure than TKMS for support and even major repairs in Canada, even to the extent of being able to...

In Russia, you fall through those damn hospital windows that don't seem to want to shut down. In the USA, you are alleged to have committed mortgage fraud. There is no such thing as Stare Decisis for a Supreme Court. Only a High Prudence unwritten rule that basically states that they should...

Go! SK! Go! (my opinion, not forcing anyone to share it)

Your logistic friend has a nice cushy NATO job, but they look at these facilities from a logistics point of view. NATO may have a position and have recommendations for the harbour (why comes to mind because, which NATO nation's warships - other than our own - would want to go to the Tuk is...

Oil terminal works for AOPV's Harbor Depth and Access Tuktoyaktuk Harbour sits at 69°27′0.00″N 133°0′0.00″W on the Beaufort Sea. You can find two main docking areas: the cargo pier (3.4m to 4.6m deep) and the oil terminal (4.9m to 6.1m deep). The harbour lies next to Kugmallit Bay, with...

I think I may have heard of a place before, .... wait .... Ah! Yes! Tuktuyaktuk. There may even be some activities crew can do on R&R: https://www.iti.gov.nt.ca/sites/iti/files/tuktoyaktuk_brochure.pdf P.S.: Shouldn't all this be moved over to the AOPV thread, or the Arctic one?

Are you assuming the MCDV's are big enough to have bar facilities with foot rails? I think you may not have seen how the Wardroom and messes are set up. :) If you don't have anything in particular in mind, may I suggest you ask for the hold bars in front of the various electrical component...

I think there is an orange guy in the white house trying to get CA in as 51st who may disagree (of course, if he realized that you couldn't do that without, in fact, getting the 51st to 63rd states, probably 11 of which would vote in two Democrat senators, he might just change his tune).

In the US? You actually need to ask?

The two senators from each state are not elected by district, but from the state as a whole. I don't think anyone has managed to figure out a way to gerrymander a whole state yet. ;)

They are not gerrymandering to get more electoral college votes for the president, they are doing it to have more elected member of congress and thus a greater chance of retaining control of the house.

A CFL broadcast usually runs for about two and a half hours (NFL is worse at about three). Now get this. Here in Quebec, RDS (the French TSN) puts together a show within an hour of the end of any broadcast of an Alouettes' game, called Alouettes Express. The show is one hour long. They only...

I think this thread is getting close to having outlived its usefulness. When we are down to four, with decommissioning every six months for a couple of years, I think there will not be much worth discussing about them, unless something quite spectacular and out of norms happens.

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