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  1. Colin Parkinson

    Replacing the Subs

    Seaspan now has an agreement with both contenders, which makes sense that Seaspan will play a big role in submarine maintenance.
  2. Colin Parkinson

    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    And that is why the CAF is always in crisis mode. Warstock, both equipment and munitions are critical and the Navy can plan and ask for it, at the same time the Army is asking for their stuff.
  3. Colin Parkinson

    Fortification techniques detailed

    Watching FPV drones entering dugouts, troops are going to need netting/mesh to close entrances, sleeping/resting area at right angles to the entrance. Fighting positions are going to need some form of foldable framework to hold up the netting and mesh. We need a modern version of the SKOP kit...
  4. Colin Parkinson

    Chinese Military,Political and Social Superthread

    A bit of a look inside. Apparently the military has been quiet, which is unusual as they are generally quick to toe whatever party line is being broadcast. But now gunfire in Beijing. This is going to shake up the CCP quite a bit, it may be very good for Taiwan or bad.
  5. Colin Parkinson

    The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

    Just add another couple of hundred billion to the RCAF budget, that's how....
  6. Colin Parkinson

    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    Level 10 if you get them into the Caspian Sea.........
  7. Colin Parkinson

    The Great Gun Control Debate- 2.0

    Yes if they actually do this, the vote pinata becomes sterile and unproductive.
  8. Colin Parkinson

    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    I think he means having the system stored in a warehouse ready to go, not guarding the warehouse. Given the lead times even now for those systems, come a major peer conflict, Canada will find those systems non-existent within the timeframe.
  9. Colin Parkinson

    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    Problem with intelligence, is you need to be right almost every time and then very lucky if you are not right. There is a lot that I like about the AOP's, but the self-defence armament is not one of them and the RCN as an organization has not covered itself in glory via it's decision making...
  10. Colin Parkinson

    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    Russia has recently had tugs and ancient recovery ship damaged by enemy action during ops. As for fleet tankers, in a modern peer war, they are likley to be some of the first vessels sunk. When you read as just how fragile was the USN oil logistics in the WWII Pacific, had they lost even one...
  11. Colin Parkinson

    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    There are lot of people/groups and even States that will see them as juicy targets and the proliferation of threats and the means to carry them out is going to grow and expand. Using your assessment guide, then you can rule out most of the Caribbean, Western Pacific, Med, West Coast of Africa...
  12. Colin Parkinson

    The Great Gun Control Debate- 2.0

    Most likely "We saw your posts on CGN and believe you are concealing a prohibited firearm." They will troll there first.
  13. Colin Parkinson

    Pipelines, energy and natural resources

    SK supporting another project in Canada. Thanks to Noah for the heads up https://torngatmetals.com/the-project/
  14. Colin Parkinson

    Canada moves to 2% GDP end of FY25/26 - PMMC

    For the love of god please get tracked IFV's
  15. Colin Parkinson

    Canadian River Class Destroyer Megathread

    Same tonnage as WWII light cruiser
  16. Colin Parkinson

    A Deeply Fractured US

    Remind me again why ICE personal would be sent overseas as part of a VIP protection detail? Are US Departments that short of qualified personal that they will have to take agents from a department that does not have that role? It would seem their primary role overseas is screening passengers...
  17. Colin Parkinson

    Arctic/Offshore Patrol Ship AOPS

    They used their ice strengthened fisheries patrol vessel to ram a RN Destroyers back in their Fish War with the UK in the 1980's
  18. Colin Parkinson

    Arctic/Offshore Patrol Ship AOPS

    Interesting they are using the containers to subdivide the drydock, but there is no other vessel there, perhaps a windbreak?
  19. Colin Parkinson

    Canada moves to 2% GDP end of FY25/26 - PMMC

    If you write Reservist job protection legislation, you need to add some carrots and not just sticks. Perhaps some tax benefits if they hire a reservist and give them time off. Along with PR acknowledging companies publicly that support the Reservists that work for them?
  20. Colin Parkinson

    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    Not trying to make it a CFP lite. It will have to play act the part of the CFP in training scenarios, thanks to the failure to enact NSS some 15 years earlier than it has been. We are very likley to see a hull gap between the CFP's and the RCD's and to keep some of the basic skillsets alive...
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