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I don't think there is anything out there in the league of the C-17. The C-390 fills the Hercules spot, but not the C-17, in my book. Yes.

You really want Canada to get a product from the main competitor of Bombardier, that used (allegedly) illegal subsidies to undercut our aviation industry?

Irving built the Halifax's, but did not design them. They were designed by a Canadian subsidiary of Bath Iron Works, which was fresh from working on the Oliver hazard Perry class of frigates for the US Navy, aided by the naval architects of Gibbs and Cox (Americans) aided by a Canadian Naval...

You are quite right. It was Ops O when I joined in the mid-seventies. It became Cbt O in the late eighties, allegedly in preparation for the increased knowledge required by the CPF's soon to come. Since I was referring to the RN's accommodation set up but using Canadian terminology, perhaps I...

The Irish finally learning the truth about Scots. :)

That picture reminds me of this one:

Whatever you call them these days. I am pretty sure that the engineers onboard don't magically do everything they have to do by committee decisions without being under a single Non Commissioned member's heading the department. And, yes, I have been out for more than a decade, more than a couple...

Just did a back of the envelope calc, for those interested. First: The legs you see in the picture of the stands are likely standard heavy commercial scaffolding ones, rated to take down up to 20 tons of weight each. for each of the five sections, I can count 14 legs back to front and ten on...

I think you mean "non-magnetic" metals.

You mean, unlike what we are already doing with the CC330, C-17 and C130J?

That means nothing. First of all, not meeting safety standard does not equate being unsafe. I have an engineer friend who once explained to me that safety standards are developed by using safety factors calculated on top of actual capacities. He called it the Ignorance Factor. For instance...

Why is Able Seaman Bloggin missing from roll call again?

Where would you have the dome? At the front like the RCD's? That would be the first thing to hit ice. I just don't think there is such a thing as a safe place to put a sonar dome on a ship meant to go in ice infested waters. Every time, it will be a chance you take.

As one French sportscaster put it on RDS (the French TSN)," you'd hire that team to do structural work, but wouldn't hire them for fine carpentry and finishing touches."

Engineers will tell you that the strength of lattice work of that kind is incredible, even if it looks flimsy, which is what makes old style roller coasters so much fun: they look and sound as if you are taking your life in your hands every time you ride them, but are incredibly safe and strong...

No, not surprised. And I will probably be hanged for heresy here, but split fleets are not as hard to manage in the Navy as in the Air Force. Sometimes, we even manage fleets of one or two.

If it is based on the current RN arrangement and standards, you are probably looking at 9 person cabins as the largest quarter, with 4 person cabins for PO/CPO/ extra JO and 2 person cabins for COXN/CERA and officers generally and four single cabins for CO/XO/CBTO and LOGO. There may be some...

We do. While the Flower class corvettes built for the British were named after flowers, the Canadian ones were named after Canadian cities and towns. As such, they were not "all over the place" except in terms of location of their associated municipality.

They only screwed up one thing: The hull number. 290 makes it a destroyer, which they are not.