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Your point is? Just because it has been done doesn't mean it should be done. I recall lots of problems with civi contractors bailing in Afghanistan immediately after they realized the FOBs weren't necessarily safe. Also FFS has a hard time keeping civilian crews, the Asterix is too austere...

The reason its a full military crew is because of the doctrinal use case. PRO is expected to be able to go into the combat zone and resupply there. Asterix is expected to stay out of the combat zone and have ships leave to resupply and then go back on station. Not saying PRO will always do...

Might be wrong, but it doesn't have to come from the PM or the MoD (MoD it should come from them but that's just me). Could be a press release. Or I could have the date wrong.

My expectation is that the fire control radar will be the SPY 7. It's going to be able to track outgoing rounds and adjust fire. Though that math is more complicated as it won't be calculating it from a single parallax location. I don't expect EOIR to be a method for targeting the main gun...

Cost Cofactors Manual (or whatever its called now) has the daily cost of the Halifax Class. The math is out there somewhere. As for PRO's costs, we don't know yet, need to get her on the water and figure it out.

St. Laurence all year round is the ice thickness and type you are looking for. That's "ice edge" in the arctic as you'll bump into stuff but hopefully never need to break anything. The actual "ice edge" is probably a marketing term for the land lubbers. There isn't a dividing line...

Love this post. Also I understand for HEAT you need the standoff correct, because in some cases you might increase the armour pen as the shaping isn't necessarily optimized at impact. But I'm not sure if that is true or not.

There is also the option of not having an HMS, and having a fixed towed array but that seems... backwards to me. HMS isn't modular but a towed array can be. What are your thoughts on the matter?

Yep, the Grizzly SPG is partially German, the Lynx IFV is fully German. I think there will be a lot of surface navy cooperation and tech between Canada and German coming up. PRO class is a German design after all.

Mark Friday in your calendars. I'm afraid @calculus is correct but hopeful they are not. Split fleet isn't the end of the world, lots of countries do it with smaller or similar sized sub forces (Turkey, Italy, Korea). But it just doesn't seem ideal and like @Rainbow1910 stated it means both...

Nah, those nicknames will never change!

Apparently they are aware of this and were talking about a reinforced dome for ice operations at CANSEC. But as usual you are correct. Its probably in the least likely place to take an ice hit, as the bow will push light ice out and away from the dome ideally. Noah is reporting that they are...

And its going to change all over again when Aegis shows up.

I also noticed that.

This is better. The hull form has changed to be ice resistant and leaves the rounded icebreaking form from a number of CANSEC models behind. A work deck astern of the flight deck for modular payloads while a solid midships crane/boat launch section accounts for larger UXV launch and recovery...

Yes Washington loved the old Cold War "Bretton Woods" security model. You were on their side and they would guarantee free passage of goods for you and security of the oceans. If not you got fenced in. The US financially benefitted from this model to an extent but their security benefited much...

Not even his regular job. Excellent content, and because he is the only person doing what he does, his rolodex of (anonymous) contacts is spectacular. He needs an acronym page though. Sometimes tough to read when you don't know the difference between a LUV, LUVW, LUTV etc...

Reduces drag which reduces water over hull noise. Which will improve sonar performance and reduce the subs sound signature. That's just the engineering if what the reduced fi does. @Oldgateboatdriver covered the why They may have gone that way.

Satellite Based Moving Target Indicators, other space based assets. Naval Strike Missile can hit land targets. If we get Korean submarines then you can potentially add Hyunmoo 4-4 Ballistic missiles (500+km range). The Germans are offering torp tube launched NSM. Software is weird. Systems...