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And about half the time it took to wrap up Stranger Things…?

It’s a tall order to design, consult, line up suppliers and set up logistics chains, send a package out to potential builders, review the feedback, award a contract, cut steel, assemble, fit out and sea trial, send back to the builder for corrections, sea trial again and accept into the Navy in...

I’m still not entirely convinced that striking a deal to sell your goods to someone and have them in turn sell theirs meets the bar for slipping into bed. When I ran a tire shop, I had a guy come in and buy tires from me. Just so happens he had a used hitch for sale that I needed. I bought it...

Used to work in the basement at NDHQ in the records section at NDRLS, first as a summer student then as a contract for a few years. One day we had a special project, back around the Somalia Inquiry and I knew it might run late, so being a brain dead 20 year old, I thought I’d bring my boombox to...

I wonder if the thinking is that Hyundai/Kia may be motivated to build another plant in North America to sell to Central America/South American markets after the fiasco in the US. I can’t see them abandoning the existing US manufacturing plants but maybe they just focus on the American market...

Strange tactic, no? I have a beautiful old car that I’m not interested in selling. It’s been in the family for decades. But, everything as they say has a price. So, if someone were to come to my home and tell me they wanted it and either I sell it to them or they’d possibly kick the shit out of...

That’s true, but it still doesn’t change the likelihood that Americans would not buy into a plan to give that kind of money away while they struggle if it were discussed.

I’ll find a van and try for a Mohawk if you need a driver…

The money part…I’ve been thinking that one over and I can’t quite square it. If he were to offer $5m per Greenlander (to whom, then personally??) how the hell would some poor bastard feel in the Midwest when all they recently received or may receive is a couple of grand check from tariffs (that...

It almost feels like we’re closing on that with T26 based ships, before they’ve ever been built/trialled/deployed. If the rumours of weight constraints are true, it doesn’t sound like there’s much wiggle room for the future or evolving systems.

I seen it remember it was part of the plan for ASTERIX too

Have you ever tried to listen to “Head Over Heels” with crackle in the playback?? The stakes are higher than you think…

I guess that’s why I was thinking HALIFAX class as a starting point, particularly since the FELEX stuff was as non USA as possible at the time. Also, not trying to name drop here, but I once had a chance to chat with John Newton and he was very eloquent in his praise of the seakeeping...

I recently found my cassette Well, I just recently found my copy of Tears For Fears “Songs From A Big Chair” on cassette. Plays as sweet as it did in 86. I have a right to be optimistic…

Would it be so outlandish to suggest dusting off the plans for the HALIFAX class and knocking out 8-9 new build versions?

I hope the integration de risking doesn’t also mean swapping out the 30mm lionfish for 25mm mk38…

Wondered that too. Thought maybe it’s an edge for kss3.

No doubt, but was I was getting at is more in terms of role than a line by line comparison between an Iroquois and a River. I would naturally expect a vessel designed almost 60 years ago (though updated later) to have less capability to detect, process and prosecute. Maybe the answer lies in...

It actually does help, 😂… the part that bothers me, is that it feels like the ship is turning into an exceptional ASW vessel, with strong ASuW credentials, but isn’t fully stepping into the role that the 280’s once played, though the situational awareness, comms and networking probably make it a...

Here’s hoping there’s some positive trade off in swapping out the main gun. I have to say my enthusiasm is waning a bit for this ship, in certain respects. I know it’s going to be a generational leap over the HALIFAX and I know it’s going to be a world class sub hunter. The issue is that it...