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Mu best guess would be 285. it's middle of a set (midway between two "0" numbers), comes after ALGONQUIN, and ensures that all numbers are in the 200 series. Even if they decide ultimately not to leave any blanks, it would still be a number found in the first batch of three. On the other hand...

A friend of mine was a carpenter that worked on the construction of the Olympic stadium, in Montreal in the 70's. He said that they were so afraid of losing control (not that they had it, as we now know) that they would issue them with 25 nails at a time, which they then went up to their work...

That's the type of organization that the Office of plans was: A joint design/architecture team from the shipyards, together with military naval engineers and architects. It was located at the Canadian Vickers Shipyard, in Montreal. But it had a role for the whole of the RCN and for the...

The Office I am talking about did both, that is why the Saint-Laurent's were done in four batches (7-7-4 and 2), with major retrofits to the original seven into DDH's, and four of the Restigouche's into IRE's (St, Croix, Columbia and Chaudiere were left out). But they also had plans for the next...

All joking aside, with the CDC needing to be as Canadian as possible, we have an opportunity to re-create the 1950's office of plans and engineering, which was a half civilian, half military bureau of engineers and naval architects that constantly produced and maintained plans "ready-to-go" for...

God! That's going to be tight. Better start working on designing the replacement now!

I thought the MRTT's could do both types of refueling, which means that you could do a probe sticking forward of the Global 6500 that they would drive into the drogue. Much simpler from en engineering point of view than trying to find a place on top for a receiver AND the antenna.

Nice to have your hard work recognized: https://www.canadianaffairs.news/2025/12/31/iran-designates-royal-canadian-navy-a-terrorist-organization/

My bad. Misunderstood. Apologies.

It has Exocets. 8 of them in two quads right behind the mast but hiden from sight from the side by a continuation of the helicopter hangar sides going forward.

I think the Griffon is a much better off-road vehicle than the LSVW.

Yep. Rules that you follow???? That's for losers. Welcome to the RCN.

Even though they screwed up the latest batch of submarines: None of those towns are fish or marine creatures. ;)

Supplemental to my post above @Underway , re: submarines. Again here, the "system" if any, makes little sense. Ignoring the subs without names (CC-1 and CC-2), our post WWII submarines pennants were in the 70's: starting at S71 for Grilse and ending at S75 for Rainbow, with the "O" boats in...

To say that we have a system, @Underway, would be putting too much strain on the word system from an epistemological point of view. Until the HAL's and the MCDV, not much thought had gone into the numbering system, if any, of the RCN. You say the 0-99 series is for carriers? (P.S. Warrior was...

Interesting. Still a lot of "take one on deck, unfold it, start it, send it somewhere to do something, land it back, cool it, fold it, take the second one out, unfold it, start it, send it somewhere, land it back, cool it, fold it, take it in" rinse-and-repeat type of ops. Or do one after the...

They didn't do that out of the kindness of their heart. They did it as a survival necessity. At the time of the conquest, the 300,000-ish colonist already knew the "real" French didn't care for them and had already decided they were here to stay, on their own, and under the boot of whatever...

It already had its complexity on the IRO's and the hangars/bear trap arrangements had the two helos side by side. To have them one in front of the other as in the T-26 is even more fun at playing Tetris.

Not quite. In waters, like the Arctic, where there are numerous locations and days with little to no sea or swell, they can also carry mexeflotes that they can then lower the ramp to and load as a ship to shore connector.

The program is not new in and of itself. Plans were underway to have a joint class with the Brits before Brexit. It would have been a Queen Ekizabeth look alike but with catapults instead of STOVL set up (the French do not like STOVL, even though the Rafale-Mer does not need much of a push from...