Just a point of discussion….not n any particular order of importance 1) to keep the design and development guys in work until the next major project, 2) to be able to open the ice for our frigates/destroyers during ice-season 3) to augment the CCG/RCMP patrols in the arctic during ice-season.
Could any of the new icebreaker designs be tweaked up to actual naval standards to give the RCN a true armed-icebreaker capability….and would it be worth doing??
For nuclear weapons?.. first diplomacy, failing that then veiled threats, then very open and public threats and muscle flexing and finally eventually push comes to shove….they would take very targeted military or covert action to destroy the material,infrastructure,development sites and any...
…”then it shouldn't bother the US if we develop a nuclear capacity and an ABM capacity.” Woulda, coulda, shoulda……your line of reasoning is rational but irrelevant…..you already answered the question. The Americans intend to be the only nuclear-armed power on this side of the Atlantic. For...
Besides the fact of a couple of treaties that we have signed or the aforementioned brain-drain? Maybe just the simple fact that the one million pound godzilla south of us just won’t permit us to have nukes a few miles from their border…..and there is nothing we can do about it.
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