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So, what this guy is saying is maybe the Americans should figure out the obvious by looking outside their borders to how other people do this.

Many questions here. First: No, whatever is harvested from the HAL's does not have to be put back in the same size hulls. The CDC's are not meant to be Halifax's replacements. Second: No, the hulls don't have to be the same size. In fact, from the general description, they ought to be...

Are you saying that because you think they did a bad job of it on the AOPS? For those who don't know: Diesels don't like to run underloaded. It leads to all sorts of problems in the long run. In fact, Diesels like to run at steady speeds near their upper limits. And if you do that while...

Don't rank badges go on every order of uniform anyway?

No. The RCAF didn't go back to pre-unification. Their current stripes use the same width as the post unification braid contrary to the very thin pre-unification ones, even though in two grey-blue colours a bit (but not exactly) as pre-unification. And they kept their ranks post-unification...

Right now, mark, it's only the Army officers who stand out with their pips and crowns. The Air Force changed the colour, but it is still the same system as the unification one (other than the grotesque General's uniforms), as is the RCN system other than having the exec. curl.

Ignoring the Aircraft carriers and phibs, and considering the difference between nuclear subs and diesel ones, I would say we would be pretty well matched with the French and a little below the Brits. The real question, however, is would the Americans also think so?

Pretty much!

I am not disputing that. It's not the DG's or DA's or the motors that create the difficulty and the time consuming assembly, it's all the High-voltage electrical equipment that goes in between and between the DA/DG's and the operational and hotel loads. It was fairly complex on the AOPS and I...

The French one, with the exact same ranks identifiers for officers and non-comms across the Army, Navy, Air Force and Gendarmerie is also pretty straight forward. And how many of us (other than the few "dinosaurs" around here ;)) have ever known the CAF with the pips and crowns? P.S.: Funny...

Why wouldn't it be, with all the sailors we have who come from the Rock?

Neither of these options make sense to me. A battery powered corvette in the 2000 - 3000 tons range would be no different than a diesel/AIP submarine. You'd be capable of running for two or three days at loitering speed, with maybe four to six hours of sprint here and there in it, before...

Even more than that. While the hulls, power plant and hotel systems of the HAL's are getting long in the tooth, the post refit combat systems, sensors and weapons are quite up to date and in good condition. Some of the HAL's will have to be retired to switch their crew to RCD training. Their...

Not just the Army. The Royal Navy also completely overhauled and increased the standards for operational evaluations and work ups by the Sea Riders. They became a lot more difficult and much more realistic. They had been cruising throughout the Cold War with the lessons of WWII, never having...

Yes. Montana, of course, is known as a hotbed of shipbuilding. I think only Russian submarine X.O.'s would have liked to see it.

Well, the Old Canadian Arctic ice Class system (1, 1A, 2 and then all the way to 10) had classes 1 to 3 (meaning capable of breaking a 1 to 3 feet of ice respectively at a continuous 3 Kts) as light ice breakers (which includes the Mackinaw), then classes 4 to 6 (breaking 4 to 6 feet at...

Sorry, but only American with their love of hyperbolae would call the USCG Mackinaw a "heavy" icebreaker. It's a light icebreaker by all accounts.

Worked on HMS SHEFFIELD.

Nitrile gloves. But only with tuque.

Aeronautical types get a H..d on when they see a plane that can carry 100 tons of cargo. Your (very) average medium container ship carries around 50,000 tons. I won't even get into the capacity of panamax or superpanamax ones.