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Unless I am mistaken, some Canadian submariners are onboard for this deployment, so we are checking out the merchandise. Kind of hard to check the other proposed one: it doesn't exist yet.

Shooting the smokestack of a merchant ship to bring it to a halt goes back to the first steamships of the late 1800's. To manage it in a single shot can be done by any means of fire control.

I note this, from the article: "The comments from the president — who acknowledged that Xi raised U.S.-Taiwan arm deals in their discussion — could amount to a fairly dramatic shift. One of the commitments that the administration of President Ronald Reagan made to Taiwan in 1982 — known as the...

Not how it works. While you have plans that guide the work, fitting, which include pipes, trunking, wire ways and a lot of pre-wiring, remains an art. Unlike the hulls sections that are made to very narrow tolerances so that when welded together, they basically marry to one another smoothly...

I am not sure I understand what you are driving at. NCM's with specific technical knowledge are better trained on the actual platform they are to operat. For insatnce, while engineering is engineering, operating a CDC or a RCD will necessarily be different for the NCM engineers and having...

I am not sure, but I understand that it is the current plan. No. The Canadian medium icebreakers are going to be a joint Canadian and Finnish design that will be different from the USCG ones. The Canadian requirements of ships that can be used both in the Arctic and the River (meaning the st...

There are no facilities for shipbuilding left in Sorel. Davie is in Levis (across the river from Quebec city), and there is work already going on on some of the stuff for the Arctic icebreaker. The icebreakers for the US Government would never be built in Canada, though as part of ICE, some...

You need small ships to begin the officer's training, so they can make navigational mistakes. You don't need small ships to train NCM's. It's better to train them (OJT) from the start in the class they will spend most of their career on.

Damn! Why not get a couple of small aircraft carriers and cover all five? ;)

I wont debate most of your points, Kirkhill, but this one seems rather incredible to me. Open bridges were the norm of the time. All RN escorts, be they destroyers or cruisers, had open bridges, and it was totally for visibility reasons in action. Even most battle-cruisers and some battleships...

Not to mention the fact that, the US is basically going back to the nuclear propelled aircraft carriers dilemma: Any "Trump" class battleship will need to be escorted - by regular, non-nuclear, escort vessels that require fuel and can't get to those high speeds, not even in short bursts, let...

Here is my post of April 10, in the CDC thread:

Not quite. Your topweight also has to be balanced at the top. Remember when turning, ships first lean into the turn, then gravity takes hold of the weight above the center of gravity and lean the ships away from the turn. If you have more top weight on one side of the ship, it will make it lean...

Actually, this type of stuff very very seldom happens in NYC these days. They got rid of it about 20 years ago with incredibly high fines for blocking the box and very aggressive ticketing.

Did you have to ballast one side more than the other to counteract topweight that was causing a list? If so the uneven distribution of topweight can be the cause of your variance in turning circles.

Actually, improved on them because Asterix and the new PRO are a lot more automated than the old PRO class or Provider before them.

No. It would mean they are in the water. That's a lot of maintenance. Better that they be high and dry. It would be better for Haida and Sackville too, BTW.

Why? Just to prove you are not a robot?

One to join the Ojibwa and one to join the Onondaga, perhaps. Having them side by side and touring them one after the other would provide an interesting perspective on technological changes.

No. Go back and read my posts. GoC owned and operated (CFAV) ice-rated tanker for anchorage refueling. Delivery of dry goods, ammunition and food for the depot(s) is a civilian function done either by air or by Arctic maritime resupply during the navigation season, whichever way they chose to...