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  1. Colin Parkinson

    Hooters Family-Friendly Rebrand

    Hooters offer breast reduction surgery to it's servers. Now it has to offer something else that is unique and since all the restaurants buy the same food selections from the same suppliers, that's going to be hard.
  2. Colin Parkinson

    Replacing the Subs

    Thankfully both platforms will be good, the biggest impact to the CAF is timelines depending on who wins.
  3. Colin Parkinson

    Domestic and Arctic Mobility Enhancement Project

    The technology is capable if properly done, but a lot of the components might not have been designed with that extreme in mind, hence the reason you buy some and run them in those conditions and see what breaks. On one mining job, we utterly destroyed our skidoos running them in minus 40 for a...
  4. Colin Parkinson

    Domestic and Arctic Mobility Enhancement Project

    Many things are robust till they meet arctic conditions, coldsoaked metal breaks in ways a lot of designers did not plan for. That being said electrical motors can be very robust. That's why I would buy some outright and just use them hard in various conditions and see what breaks and how easy...
  5. Colin Parkinson

    Indirect Fires Modernization Project - C3/M777 Replacement

    Not just video though, I recall statements by gunners and drone operators that good concealment and not firing when recce drones are in the area helps greatly, but all movement was risky as movement is so much easier to detect, even without dust or engine smoke. Speaking of concealment, this...
  6. Colin Parkinson

    The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

    Saab: "We also have a bridge to sell you" https://www.nsnews.com/national-news/gripens-bound-for-ukraine-could-be-built-in-canada-saab-12342707
  7. Colin Parkinson

    Indirect Fires Modernization Project - C3/M777 Replacement

    HMCS Chicken Coop, it's large enough to justify flying an ensign.
  8. Colin Parkinson

    Indirect Fires Modernization Project - C3/M777 Replacement

    So many of the SP's I seen hit in Ukraine were on the move at the time. A battery on the move need Air Defense protection beyond it's own crews.
  9. Colin Parkinson

    Mark Felton, looks at the problem facing the RN

    Mark Felton, looks at the problem facing the RN, calling it the "Doom Loop" Both the number of ships and personal.
  10. Colin Parkinson

    RCN Not Hiring New Reserve NWO

    Yes I know, hence the question. We really need a training vessel like the Kingstons to supplement the Orca's
  11. Colin Parkinson

    Replacing the Subs

    Yea that might be awkward if we go German. KSS arrives in Pearl, "Where are the Canadians?" Sub CO "They got off midway when they heard the news" "Umm what, how, where?" Sub CO "I think English expression is : Long walk, short plank"
  12. Colin Parkinson

    RCN Not Hiring New Reserve NWO

    The RN is getting rid of the 3x River Class Batch 1 OPV, I wonder what shape they are in?
  13. Colin Parkinson

    Domestic and Arctic Mobility Enhancement Project

    Buy 5 of each, run them hard and test the support system as well. Then pick a winner
  14. Colin Parkinson

    Indirect Fires Modernization Project - C3/M777 Replacement

    Now imagine that with a cope cage and will it fit as it is or on a lowbed/railcar and go through most overpasses and tunnels in Canada?
  15. Colin Parkinson

    Former CIA-ite accused of stealing $40M in gold bars ....

    Sometimes pure audacity will carry you a long way. Asking for 40 mil in gold would infer that you have support from someone high up and neck deep in some sort of black ops. Likely he was very convincing to people. One can also infer that these sort of transactions are more common in the CIA...
  16. Colin Parkinson

    Canada to buy Polish drones, deepen defense ties by leveraging EU SAFE funds

    AI response to an inquiry Canadian Retailers for Non-Chinese Components If you are assembling your own drone, these specialized Canadian shops stock components from allied regions (like Taiwan, the EU, and the US): Rotor Village: A leading Canadian FPV retailer based in Alberta, supplying...
  17. Colin Parkinson

    Canadian River Class Destroyer Megathread

    and yet another piece added to the puzzle, for the first 3 RCD's...
  18. Colin Parkinson

    RCN Not Hiring New Reserve NWO

    While they are waiting on the OPV's they could lease this as a floating classroom SCRUTON MARINE - 72M Arctic Ice-Class Offshore Support & Research Vessel
  19. Colin Parkinson

    All Things First Nations - CF help, protests, solutions, residential schools, etc. (merged)

    That is very likley to happen at some point and the feud from it will go on for years.
  20. Colin Parkinson

    Replacing the Subs

    If we go TKMS, I think we are going to get bitten with delivery delays and production errors and warranty claims as TKMS is trying to do more than it possibly can.
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