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Nation-building (subset: anywhere other than Upper & Lower Canada) suggestion: Crofton BC for a Korean armour plant. Other former mill towns available if desired.

Continue to be amazed that the dread US MiC, offered the first real new opportunity to sell bags and heaps and stacks of expensive kit they've had for years, hasn't been able to convince (bribe) the US government into enthusiastic support for Ukraine. "How many oil refineries, tank depots and...

Do they currently act as trainers for the ship's NBPs?

Thanks! Wasn't sure if it was an attempt at lightweight "spades." Vaguely remember seeing a set-and-drive-down anchor system somewhat like that described for (no idea, brain like a sieve) ag or logging. One of those hillbilly extempore things that works great until the welds or the ground let go!

Are those a testing safety item, or some sort of plow anchor?

Not sure that endurance or range (setting drones aside) improved with the Auroras. Certainly able to "see" more in whatever patch of ocean it's flying over, of course, but did coverage get so much better with the Auroras as to negate the smaller numbers?

To bat that around, bundle a bunch of "jet, but not F-35" roles, and you might actually be able to get rid of some fleets and contracts in a way that provides depth should things go sideways. An armed Skyraiderish prop trainer/COIN/etc. bird, a jet trainer/demo/"not bleeding edge missions"/etc...

Isn't it also a case where there's not really any capacity left open for something that size on BCF's timelines?

5 days suggests a multi-intake recurring evolution; both all at once and two weekends, one of them long, run repeatedly over the year.

Good news! We've provided everyone with a cellphone and an internet connection an interlocutor once available only to the most rarefied levels of society: the Obsequious Courtier. My gig is awash in tech specs and equipment manuals. Few things annoy me more than Adobe offering to summarize...

What sort of capacity would you need to make this work?

Seems to be tasked to GSAR support, though. From my time with Cowichan SAR I remember a medevac (wherein a firefighter with the subject got their arm broken by flying crap) and a Buffalo dropping flares for a night search, and think there were a couple more.

It sort of does, if DMob opened the cabinet marked "mobilization," discovered the most recent item was a note saying "requires rewrite - ALLARD" and then told their staff to just go to town with the wild ideas. Why there's leaks, though...

Minimally, access to the South that's less seasonal and not dependent on what I understand to be a fairly limited road and rail network for all of the communities along that coast wouldn't hurt, and might make extraction (and local processing) of whatever resources are there feasible.

The activity or the motivation?

For Hudson Bay? Neighbouring provinces and territories who could theoretically do something with improved ocean access.

I think at least Ontario and Manitoba have governments that're switched on enough, in their own ways, to make something of it. Less sure of Québec and Nunavut. A twinned line might be sellable.

Knocking on from that (expiring stocks, a need to keep lines ticking over above the "it's dried out and seized" threshold, keeping factory hands trained, etc) is perhaps having enough training rounds to allow routine firing of all systems by operational and training units who will run out of...

Although the whole Remembrance evolution in the UK has become a bit overwrought and silly.