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Advantage of a mothership, is it can be moved to support the other vessels, making it harder to target. Disadvantage is the mothership limits growth, needs it's own crew and maintenance. Likely a mothership makes perfect sense for the LCS, not so much for the CDC. Perhaps Naval stations with...

I understood they did, at least the first batch?

As part of the plan, the government said it would eliminate 16,000 full-time equivalent positions, including 650 executive positions, through the comprehensive expenditure review, while 12,000 positions, including 350 executive positions, will be eliminated through attrition and early retirement...

Maybe if SK is willing to build us tanks (and we are willing to buy them), push all our Leopards to Europe and have permeant crews and maintainers posted there. Then do all the training on the new tanks, then sell the Leopards to our allies and move the new tanks over to take their place.

Meanwhile in the UK, people are turning the government tools against it

Some Arctic related news, project granted right to proceed

Clearly the MOD is doing a shyte job in recruiting them.

More Cadets than serving soldiers. 70 million more monies, records show, faster promotion and longer service by previous Cadets. Also interesting is how they plan to turn Air Cadets into drone operators. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1255689113101757

Interesting if the letter is genuine, Zhang appears to be someone uninterested in war with the West. Also not impressed with Xi personality cult fixation.

Death by Pineapple express

There are claims that the head of the IRGC has disappeared and likley with millions in gold and cash. That more and more soldiers and police are publicly siding with the protesters.

There is only one type of peacekeeping I want to do

Well there is the lathe and hammer method......

Lipstick on a pig methinks, but kudo's to the crews nevertheless.

I would be shocked as well, except being on here has inoculated me to being shocked anymore about the state of the RCN.

Now this has just hit it seems? One commenter, says TC is awaiting FAA certification of some of the models

NATO tank commonality : Leopard, M1, Challenger, Leclerc, Ariete, PT-91 and now K2 There is both the French and the South Korean options if we want to limit our ITAR exposure, we should have also created ties between subs and tank contracts, certainly worth floating right now.

A cautionary tale of going to cheap

He does not strike me as the type to shy away from walking the tightrope of public engagement, I suspect he feels the reward of more openness and engagement is worth the risk of stepping on toes. He might also have been asked to float trial balloons when the opportunity arises, that the...

Because he was being directly asked those questions. He did clarify that there is a "Navy view" and that if the Government says "Do this", then the navy will do so. Not sure where he would get the sailors from to man weapons on CCG/merchant ships AND increase RCN crews for wartime ops? Very few...