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This year the CFRG recruited ~7002 pers. The total SIP (not MOSID specific) was ~6957. Which means we got 45 more new recruits than was asked. There are still trades that didn't hit SIP. But by and large most trade numbers were good. CFRG SIP two years ago was ~4500, which we didn't hit. It...

Not anymore. Marine Mechanical Tech, Marine Electrical Tech are the two new trades. Started 1 April IIRC.

I like that as well. Clear, to the point, and a good reference to get you back on track as the design spiral starts its inexorable pull on the engineers.

Hmm need bomb pumped X-ray lasers I guess eh @Lumber ?? Probably changes the cost curve in a bad way though. And all that fallout... not good. Lasers for smaller or slower drones however are more interesting. 150kW is in the range that they can quickly lase small drones and deal with them...

True, they didn't have many other options. As we both know, (but others might not), you attack targets based on the circumstance. So imagine you have a single drone coming in. -Do you pull a Falklands ("tell the Harrier to back off, we will take the target with guns*" and then miss and get...

The Greeks did. There's a hilarious article on it regarding their actions against the Houthi's where its obvious that they were just rollilng with big guns and EW shooting down drones. Basically makes fun of everyone else for using expensive missiles. Its all very Greek though, they the are...

Just to make you happy the ready use torp magazine is in the hangar, so perhaps you can use some of that space for some reloads. But honestly I think you're overestimating the number of missiles needed for self defence. If the ship is using its RAM, for kinetic engagements that means many...

The magazine is on HMCS PROTECTEUR most likely. Or perhaps you bring the munitions out through the hangar, pull them up to the hangar top that way, IF there is a magazine for storing reloads in there. I dont' see this being a normal reload at sea evolution. I'm pretty confident the ship...

Fixed. Lol Also did a little more research. Tactical length can also take SM2 family missiles. SM3, SM6 and Tomahawk only fit in strike length.

Maybe they are, but the safer low risk option is to have the first one sail around a bit and get some seakeeping data first before pushing the weight limit upwards. Of course if BAE comes back and says "we can totally do this no problem" based on the data they are receiving from the UK/Aussie...

Thats the one that doesn't make much sense to me. Maybe there is somewhere in the forward starboard arc they were thinking about (so that there are no blind spots for the RAM. But that doesn't make a lot of sense. Normally RAM doesn't do side by side, you use the 360 turning capability of the...

I agree. But a sea can system that launches mines over the side instead... yah that would be nasty. Heres a PDF on the CUBE system. Some of the more interesting modular capability images I've cut and paste below. They go into quite a lot of detail. Boats, UXV's of various types, surface...

So perusing the internet here's an interesting article from MSN (caveat AI assisted with human involvement, so grain of salt this a little bit). Also there was this from the article. Not sure about these two, might be an AI hallucination or pulling info from speculation forums... but it also...

This one makes me laugh. Its the movie moment when the garage door goes up and there's a bunch of dudes with tons of firepower inside that flatten the collected cop cars. I can't think of a practical application of this but when you're brainstorming all options get thrown on the board.

One of the priorities is to vent to the outside for fires inside a ship, it goes a significant way to ensuring that the atmosphere is safe. That can mean damage to the route outside, but that's a necessary evil to keep the ship floating. FORD I heard had other issues, like sabatoge to the...

The fistfights in their parliament would indicate that no, they don't all agree. Lol

As the mission deck is a direct line to the flight deck anything that could be flight launched could be stored there (Surviellance assets etc..). Some of the examples below are in this category Like posted above ASW: UUV that drives around looking for contacts, surfaces when it finds one and...

Mine hunting is remote. Mine sweeping is you go into the miefield yourself. The joke is "Any ship can be a minesweeper.... once". AOPS if used in a mine hunting role would be multiple NM away from the mine positions and send in UXV, small boats to do the job. You can have the biggest...

Mine sweeper bad. Mine hunter, ok depending on external effects.

That guy just took the Navy Lookout article and jazzed it up, added some additional analysis. The same format as well almost exactly. I wonder what they used for sources. That being said it's more technical approach speaks to me. What is interesting is that the ship size they are quoting...