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I dunno about a few dozen, but it will be guaranteed that some folks will find their way across. Just like we'll have Cdn Sailors on USN ships for the combat systems famil at some point.

New BMQ location is Aldershot NS, same as for Borden ON. I assume Maritimers will end up in Aldershot. It's certainly going to cover the next 5ish years, and that might be just what we need in some trades. Preach.

Build what cars for whom? For the Canadian market only as the US is showing it doesn't want cars made outside of the US itself? The only business case I see for that is building Korean or German cars for the Canadian market instead in importing them, which might be a small volume, expensive...

240 was the right choice. It looks real good on there.

Observe for sure. Ours will be more Canadian build.

HDW can carry more mine removal gear and pers than the MCDV's could. They have already trialed the ship with the decompression chamber, Dive gear and UAV gear all loaded on a single ship (normally that was two or three MCDV's together). The only disadvantage is that its a long way to the water...

Perhaps... and I'm just spitballing, a submarine recovery/rescue ship could do the underwater infrastructure job as well. I suspect there is overlapping equipment.

Recruiting is doing its part in the mission. CFLRS is filling up every serial. And we aren't cheating this year either (like last year when we stole SIP from this year to do it). Are we missing some trades? Yes. Some are very difficult to fill up. But we can't recruit more than the...

I agree with this correction. Not only is crewed a more nautical and air force term, it is an accurate term (IMHO). Crewed means someone is in the aircraft. Manned means someone is controlling the aircraft. Crewed also refers to whole of vehicles, manned refers to stations/positions within...

They could displace it yes. But US shale could run out of steam, Russian oil could end full off the market, they could find more oil in X country and so on etc... It is what it is. I don't think the current US gov't is organized enough to exploit this despite DJ's "were going to take their...

For sure there will be an impact. Though the US might be going into a long term guerrilla war situation. Its going to take years to get the oil running properly again and the movement to the coast from inland goes through a mountain range with two tunnels. Trump will be long gone before this...

From what I understand of the CDC program, the RCN is just going to pick the systems that it wants (if they are Canadian) and then roll from there. They've already identified a number of systems from OSI, LMC and MDA for example that are probably going into this frigate. Vard however is a...

The new UAV plan. They've done some preliminary work in IDing UAV's that can transfer pallets between ships. Not needed right now as JSS is still to be introduced, but its on the board.

Those VLS look weird. That is not the way they are designed. They come in blocks of 8 not 12. This makes me have less confidence in Vard not more. That's simple stuff. Shows they are not ready for the big time. Edit: perhaps it's a place holder graphic for all the normies out there. Just...

The 240's is a great class nickname. It's got 420 right in there.

The dewey decimal system!

HMCS Fraser (DDH 233) was the original. Maybe do that one in honour of her history.

Yep. Its going to be interesting. They are developing a new radar system for it already.

Yes, but 80% of of 60% is 48% (~50%). We are hyper simplifying things though and really just confounding the maximum energy you can pull from the wind with the turbines output. Rated capacity on a wind turbine is calculated by the turbines engineered capacity. Turbines when installed are...

65% efficiency is impossible. The Betz limit is around 60% for turbine energy capture of wind going past it. After you calculate in other efficiency losses (turbine conversion to electricity, resistances both mechanical and electrical) the best efficiency you're every going to get is 80% of...