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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.

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.

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.

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...

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

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.

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

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...

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...

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...

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.

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"...

I thought they were in Fort Polk

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!

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...

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.

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...

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...

The Robertson screwdriver enters the chat.

Especially a senior NCO or a Warrant or above.