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Again, the Russian's ability to put up with and deal with things like lack of clean water, Cholera, Typhoid, shitty leadership, bad food, lack of medicine and medical facilities, lack of R&R, dealing with Convicts as Comrades, etc, etc, it amazes me that they've last 3yrs and are still making...

I've seen report in Donetsk where multiple apartment blocks have to rely on water trucks parked out front so that the residents have to queue up for the ration of clean, drinking water because the Russians can't supply them with clean drinking water. If any people have the ability to...

They've got 7-8yrs to make this happen. The Brits-French built the entire Chunnel in only 6yrs. I don't think we are asking the RCN to send someone to the moon and back in 7yrs.

Offer the Vic's to Australia......even the addition of 1 new sub will help them going forward.

This is where the economic monitoring side of things needs to be very closely monitored, cough, cough, enforced..... The Russians will have limited capacity/ability to replace quickly a lot of this machinery - their ability to skirt the sanctions by having a 3rd party buy the necessary...

They are nailing the gas side of the equation, they need to nail the diesel side, which will cripple the military and transportation side.

Just imagine if they had access to the talent of Leni Riefenstahl and Dr Goebbels. The MAGA crowd would be swooning.

I can see the Fed's holding up Churchill and saying, 'see, this is what can be achieved when the Federal, Provincial, Ingenious and Local communities all work together towards a common goal.' Its a rare thing when both Provincial and Ingenious sides are on side and moving the ball downfield...

Lots of cats that need to be herded in the same direction - never an easy task - expect to see some things moving to the next step/level over the next few months, by Christmas. If not, watch out.

Don’t they typically use convicts to do that job in the US?

Fair points. How long did it take the UK/France to build the Chunnel? Spoiler alert - it took only 6yrs. Compare the Chunnel timeline to virtually all construction projects in Canada and then factor in the complexity and changes that the Chunnel faced.

If the Poles pick the German choice before us, I cannot see how our timelines can be met. They might move heaven and earth for the first sub, but the next 11yr would be staggered so far down the line we'll be at where we currently are today, with 1 deployable sub.

A pretty sobering assessment of the current state of Australia's bid to get 3-5 SSN's from 2032. Cross your fingers, Australia, and hope the AUKUS deal collapses Cross your fingers, Australia, and hope the AUKUS deal collapses

You use oil from the french fry machine?

I think we cannot underestimate the impact of Poland announcing their choice of submarine prior to our final decision. I believe with certainty that if Poland selects prior to us, that the chances of us choosing the OPPOSITE choice between the Ger/Nor or the SK's is all but guaranteed. It is...

Would make sense with the subs for certain, regardless if we choose SK or Ger/Nor. 'Leave' a sub out in SK or in Ger/Nor and move the crews to and from. Log/Main support could be done from there, onsite at the manufacturers facilities. They could potentially do the same with us.

Just so I understand, do you mean 'end' a ships deployment in say Yokohama and fly the crew back to Canada and fly a new crew out to Yokohama and start a new deployment directly from there? Would be an interesting scenario to map out the costs to 'move' the ship from Japan back over to BC (in...

Would there be the need to add in some 'buffer' space for when visiting warships come to port?

The Germans are known for understating things - no embellishments, no hyperbole, little to no emotion - just the dry facts.

And in return the German Ambassador called out PP. Pretty telling in my opinion.