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Especially considering the ability to quad pack certain missiles that is only possible with a strike length VLS, I believe.

One big “mostly” happy family!! 😂

This is exactly the reason I recently put FB to the curb. It’s gonna help my mental state, but play hell with my ability to extend timely birthday wishes…

Maybe the first 2-4 hulls built in SK, then fitted out here, but with some kind of further partnership between one of our current yards and Hyundai, for instance, to build the rest here. It would be sweet to see that included in a whole pitch from SK that already has tanks, artillery, missile...

Hostile existential threat on their respective borders. We have 3 oceans and a “allied” superpower as a buffer between similar threats. So, we romanced the pug while the world turned and failed to recognize our own existential threats might be right on our doorstep. If, IF, we come out the other...

I don’t think we could take it as a given that we’d be given a vote in this scenario…

I spend more time than I thought I ever would trying to imagine what Austrians thought leading up to the Anschluss. I imagine the debates and conversations would not have been much different than the ones we have been having on these threads. It’s a sobering thought…

New word for me to try and work into casual conversations today!! Smoothbrain!!! 😂❤️❤️😂

I’m torn between hitting the insightful or humorous button for this post…

Well, the trend in social media is moving towards “leftist” or “righty”. Essentially if anything has even the remotest whiff of socialism, lefty and if you disagree with that whiff, righty. It’s shorter, but probably no more accurate.

Ahem, expert here…it’s a $1.50. I plan my whole waistline around Costco hotdog economics.

If you were really being pessimistic, you’d have noted Trump may still be there AFTER 2029…

I’ve always heard it said that politicians were unhung criminals…I guess we’d know for sure then…

Now, is the design that is being finalized going to be the one that both SS and Davie will build? I don’t know that I’ve seen it said anywhere that Davie has been involved in the current design process mentioned above.

Well, there’s always jumping in with the ROK on the Boromae program. I mean, it’s getting to the point that I’d like to just show up in Seoul with a shopping list for the Army, Navy and Air Force. Realistic or not for the fighter, I think the South Koreans would be willing partners across the...

Finally got the chance to sit down and watch this whole tour. Very impressive ship and set up. My 17 year old twins were even paying attention and expressed some interest in Navy life. That shows the power of exposure. More of this and you may just get more of a buy in, even from this generation.

I only wish it had a little more space for future proofing. Not really anywhere for ISO containers, UAV/S systems or any weapons upgrades. Probably work well for coastal patrols and OP CARIBBE, tho hard to say how much room for a LEDETS team.

No, but I could probably get you Chrétien as a Plan B?

This is what I would try before the Red Green blood transfusion, for the record. Or, adjust the scope of CMMC to something actually doable under a 1000t at a smaller yard and really lean into containerized mission kits. @Czech_pivo is right on the money about fleet numbers for a long time to...

I agree that the ideal solution would be do exactly as you state and fund the RCN, as well as properly equip them. As for the inevitably of the sit and wait for the RIVERS, you’re gonna get people pitching ideas in the interim and sometimes those ideas will make sense, if even modified...