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I believe it can be done. I originally joined during the great cold war expansion and found myself in recruit school a mere 5 weeks after walking into the recruiting center. The place was bursting at the seams and all the newer barracks were full so my class was shuffled off to some old wartime...

I think that your missing the point i was trying to make. Despite data in websites like Naval Technology the Agosta, Scorpene and Type 212 were not designed, nor normally operated as long range patrol subs like the Victoria's or Collins"s. They operate in Balitc, Med or coastal areas usually. I...

I thought i'd tell you a little story that sort of illustrates the suttle difference betweem military & civie thinking.  A couple of yeary ago the brand new U.S. Coast guard icebreaker Healy was in Halifax before heading for Alaska via the NW passage. Being very proud of their new vessel they...

I wonder why a deep water port is required in the first place?  Maybe there is a justification for one but nobody has said why. There  used to be a couple of ore mines in the Arctic that shipped cargo in summer but they are all closed now. There used to be quite a bit of oil search activity but...

1. None of the aircraft you mentioned can supercruise. The F-22 is the only a/c with this capeability. 2. The JSF has in fact more range on internal fuel than the a/c it is replacing. 3. The JSF is still cheaper than Eurofighter or Rafale. 4. All Fighters have problems with becoming overweight...

Yah well if i was going to drive from Halifax to B.C. i'd rather go in a BMW 5 series rather than a Cavalier even though the Cavalier is more than capable of making it.  Cold figures alone don't tell the whole story about a submarine . Iveco believes that the LSVW is an excellent truck but not...

One must keep in mind some history here. Studies for a true polar icebreaker were started as early as 1971. In 1973 the Coast Guard requested Canadian and foreign companies with proven expertise to design a Class 7 icebreaker(one capable of continuous progress at 3 knots in 7 ft thick ice). By...

I agree that the F-124 platform is an excellent design. Its designers could easily modify the design to meet Canadian requirements and we could build it here so it wouldn't require Canadianization.  The problem with the Victoria's was that we had to tear out British equipment and replace it with...

Did you ever think that the reason the ship was on sale on e-bay was not because they didn't want it  but that they don't have the money to run it.  Secondly not all ice-breakers are created equal most of them are only usefull in only light ice conditions. Even the most powerfull icebreakers in...

Gentlemen stop and think for a moment.  If the new PM were to try to implement any of the these bright idea's & suggestions we would have the shortest government in Canadian history. The opposition would bring down the government so fast as to be unbelieveable. In case your not aware even the...

No way !  no one who knows the slighest bit about the Coast Guard  would ever suggest such an insane idea. Now if you were going to completely shut down the whole organization and fire everyone and start over again from scratch recruiting and training new people and had lots of funding then it...

One other small point i'd like to add to the discussion, on several occasions when i came through the border in the summer i was processed by a BSO who appeared to be about 12 years old. Later when i spoke to a friend of mine who is a investigator with BS he told me that they routinely hire...

I recently read a report about a series of interviews that was done after the major fighting in the last gulf war. They talked to US Army, US Marines, British Army & Marine Commando's in various types of units and there was one common thread.  Anytime they ran into  any opposition the first cry...

WOW !!  SO THIS IS ,THE LATEEST HARRY POTTER NOVEL?

FoverF  After all that being said it will be interesting to see your filled out proposal. But even if the F-35 is the greatest A/C of all time and Canada does aquire it sometime in the distant future it will probably be the "A" model .  The chances of Canada getting the "B" are i think slim. If...

Didn't the US have to ground their c27's after 10 years due to maintenance nightmares & lack of spares. Is the C27J any better, will we be getting hanger queens?  Can Alenia support the a/c in service. Its been around awhile how many are in operational service?  Is the CASA any better?  At least...

NAVY BLUE SHAKE YOUR HEAD.  If  what you say is true then we would have to close all steel plants in the western world because they make steel cheaper in Asia. We would have to close all car plants in the west because Korea can build them cheaper. We would have to get rid of farmers because its...

THE F-35B is i think a STOVL which stands for short takeoff vertical landing.  Notice thats short takeoff,  not vertical takeoff. While it may be possible to take off vertically it cannot carry any usefull load if it does, hence it is mainly meant to make rolling takeoffs so could not normally...

After reading this thread for awhile i thought i'd chuck in a few points to ponder that & that people should add to their reasoning. 1. The high speed cats for transport as sugested by Kirkhill.  Their hulls are made of aluminum and hence pretty usless in ice. Their propulsion system is...

Actually most of the the idea's contained in this thread are more based on fantasy than reality and show no knowledge of Naval construction.  Canada along with Germany & the Netherlands developed the APAR radar that is used in the German & Dutch air defence frigates but this radar cannot be...