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  1. Oldgateboatdriver

    Ryan Wedding arrested - in US custody

    Canada arrested a whole bunch of his associates lately (in the last year). Contrary to popular belief and common place, there is no honour amongst thieves. Somebody blabbed to get a good deal on plea bargain.
  2. Oldgateboatdriver

    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    No. it's not. And mark my words: In about five years from now, the RCN will have to make a call on whether they retire some of the worst ones early and willfully or accept the law suits when the casualties start coming in.
  3. Oldgateboatdriver

    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    That's why I ignored the first type 26 in my post. That's for the Type 26. At 42 months each, it is still significantly faster to build Type 31's. Yes. If we don't build them at ISI.
  4. Oldgateboatdriver

    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    Here is what I find fascinating in that graph: The grey bar portion represents the time needed to build the ship , the colour part means in commission. For the type 26, ignoring the first build, you go from 10 years to build the second ship, down to six years for the eight and last ship...
  5. Oldgateboatdriver

    2026 US-Denmark Tensions/End of NATO

    Perhaps its time we joined the French SNLE 3G program, after all , if we have 12 submarines by then, what's four more?
  6. Oldgateboatdriver

    Trump administration 2024-2028

    Well, some of our casualties were "a little back off the front". That's where they were killed by an American aviator incapable of using his brain properly.
  7. Oldgateboatdriver

    2026 US-Denmark Tensions/End of NATO

    No. They are too busy looking to acquire assault-style weapons to arm themselves for the fight.
  8. Oldgateboatdriver

    Status of the US Navy

    It also depends what aspects of shiphandling skills raises concerns about being lost. If skills in maneuvering around a formation or carrying out RAS is being lost, that is a big concern. If it is shiphandling in coming alongside, well, yes, it is eroding. But in the old days, the destroyers...
  9. Oldgateboatdriver

    The Great Gun Control Debate- 2.0

    That math doesn't compute. In any household where there is a gun, there must be, by definition, at least one individual who owns the said gun. Last Statscan numbers say 15 millions households in Canada, for a 40 millions population. That would put the households with guns in the 18-20% range and...
  10. Oldgateboatdriver

    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    First of all, either you base all types (except submarines - they have to be co-located) in Levis, or you don't base any: A French station cannot become a place for "secondary" units only so that franco personnel becomes relegated to secondary roles, and thus a "lower" class of sailors. Second...
  11. Oldgateboatdriver

    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    Levis. Co-located with Davie (lots of room). From December to March, you just co-locate with the rest of the Fleet at Halifax for those units not in refit. If you get the CDC as ice capable as Topshee wants them, then you only have to re-locate the one or two "franco" RCD for that period.
  12. Oldgateboatdriver

    Trump administration 2024-2028

    The main problem is that Trump is an uneducated man. He is neither worldly nor sophisticated and is definitely not versed in science. He is good at making money with other people's money in deals he bullies them into. That's it. So, when he hears the words "rare earth", he thinks "gold rush"...
  13. Oldgateboatdriver

    Trump administration 2024-2028

    I thought they were in Fort Polk
  14. Oldgateboatdriver

    Trump administration 2024-2028

    It's mid winter up there right now. You want to dissuade the Americans from "taking" our North? Just invite the 10th Mountain Division based in Louisiana for a snap, surprise exercise in Inuvik next week. Let's see how they like it!
  15. Oldgateboatdriver

    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    Well, the "franco" can operate 100% in French, using the proper French terminology, and be based for their whole life in a francophone province or area, for one thing. When the RCN catches up to that concept, in view of the fact that there is a strong maritime tradition in Quebec in particular...
  16. Oldgateboatdriver

    Trump administration 2024-2028

    That's what you get when you let an A-hole at the top of your organization (and Fantino is an A-hole) create a phony prize out of tin air and without any criteria, just so he can ingratiate himself with another A-hole at the top of another organization.
  17. Oldgateboatdriver

    Liberal Minority Government 2025 - ???

    Absolutely! What I was alluding to is the fact that during WWII, Canada elected to extensively use Robertson screws for its military equipment because "the Germans don't have the screwdrivers to re-use our materiel if it falls in their hands". The problem was our own allies didn't have them...
  18. Oldgateboatdriver

    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    So long as everybody remembers that the Coast Guard Academy is just another specialized community college, not an indoctrination operation, like Venture or CFRLS St-Jean. It only addresses itself to the officers of the Coast Guard, and only trains them to become marine officers to civilian...
  19. Oldgateboatdriver

    Liberal Minority Government 2025 - ???

    The Robertson screwdriver enters the chat.
  20. Oldgateboatdriver

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

    Especially a senior NCO or a Warrant or above.
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