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For sure, there is certainly upper deck space above the mission deck for that.

When I was in pre-deployment for TF Afghanistan in 09 we had a mixed section of RCN and Army folks. During Maple "insert noun/verb here" one of the training staff army Sgt's who just got back from ROTO pulled the army folks aside, and told them to stop giving the RCN folks such a hard time...

If that was the only issue (its never is the only issue, there is almost always more to the story) they could have gotten a waiver. I've done it multiple times for that exact same situation.

I'm in a Centre but posted out west this summer. My thoughts for Naval BMQ is go for it. I did a NavRes BMOQ and it was amazing. Divisions named after our three carriers instead of numbered platoons. All the ranks were naval aside from a few support staff. And when we finished we went...

Can help is one thing. I dont think anyone would argue that. But the challenge is that it needs to be predictive more than 70% so that it makes it worth the cost, effort and time. Especially as now we are paying applicants for their mileage to come to in person meetings. I like CFAT because...

Its entirely money related. Those Centres were closed during the waning years of Harper (2011-12) as recruiting was under the gun with budget reductions. Now the money is back so we can reopen the smaller community ones if them make sense. Or in Southern Ontario's case open ones in...

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.