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For the size of our coastline, as well as remoteness of it from everyone else, we could invest in a lot of effective monitoring and defence other than warships, and the upgrade to the FOLs with give us a lot easier reach with plans for rapid deployment of real combat assets. Warships are super...

No, this actually speaks to why we need to be part of NATO and deploy in task groups with mixed fleets. Other countries do a much better job at focusing on core capabilities; we take really capable designs and reduce their effectiveness by trying to get them to do more functions with competing...

Thats awesome, keep it up! Progress, not perfection! I'm 6'1" and was something like 155 lbs when I did mine the first time, so leaned back too far with too big of a stride, and went kind of vertical like a looney toons,

That's a great video from PSP, nice that they are all simple exercises you can do with almost no equipment (the front loaded reverse lunges are easy to do with a dumbell, kettleball, etc). This is one of those tests where physics makes a huge difference, someone short and heavy has a big...

The combat vulnerability assessment process for the RCD is really interesting with the modeling that has already been done using systems like Purple Fire. There is a pretty interesting article in Nature about the process and outcomes on a fake ship; but they basically look at attacks from all...

If you are talking naval bombardment specifically, you get much better bang for your buck out of something like the 5" gun coming with RCD than a packup of missiles, and also the logistics of resupply is both much faster and much easier. So you can keep it on station longer, doing a lot more...

Probably for the same reason carrier strike groups have large screening groups around them for active defence. You could have drones augment it, but hard to do away with it. Automation past a certain point also costs an absolute fortune to build and maintain, so actual combat recoverability...

The USN and RN are generally pulling back on that for large ships. It really only makes sense on smaller drones that are effectively mobile sensor suites. USN crewing model is generally not a good comparison anyway, as they are far more bloated by comparison to everyone else with 'one job per...

This meme is way too relatable lately.

The QC Releve 1 are a nightmare; I got audited last year because CRA can't see my R1 so I had to actually mail it in (because my CRA online wasn't working). Lot of people in the NCR and other spots along the border live in one and work in the other so always creates a hassle, and the actual...

No, but that's the expectation when you have a ship worth several hundred million dollars, and the autonomous ships very quickly become 'optionally crewed' with sailors always on them. Similarly as soon as high tech sensor arrays, weapon systems and crypto are onboard they expect physical...

The issue is it doesn't scale up or is easily deployable at any real distance. A few semi-autonomous small drones running near your home port, or something like MCM drones off a mothership? Sure. But you can't forward deploy it without a home base to come back to like you can with a crewed ship...

I was leaving OT div as that was starting, it was pretty brutal to see. We also would occasionally get CFTPOs from the school for critical vacancies, which was particularly stupid as courses got cancelled/delayed, and after a few of those in a row they just asked to be posted to a ship so they...

Not going to lie, coming up to my 25 and keeping Thales and a few others in mind. Probably would be telling the RCN the same specialist advice as the previous 5 years, but may actually listen with a corporate letterhead. Still can't believe the Mun program hasn't gotten stood back up, and we...

Not really, the issue isn't even recruiting sailors; it's training throughput, which requires infra and people (as well as alternate paths like using colleges/trade schools with delta training). The RCN is at least already behind on what it needed, and only getting worse with the surge needed...

Both those options are big risks with a lot of logistic problems through multiple countries where a lot could get stolen, when they could simply export it via tankers.

Bad news for Canada, terrible news for Alberta. Almost like it's a really bad idea to build your economic plan solely around a non-renewable reserve with highly fluctuating prices. This does actually make a domestic refinery and pipeline make more sense though, but that might be too much like...

Maybe not; Trump just said the US is going to be very involved in Venezualan oil, so the entire drug cartel angle may have been a convenient smoke screen to seize and plunder their oil reserves. Also terrible news for Alberta and their hopes for a pipeline to the US if that happens, as now...

And in no surprise, China is now talking openly about taking Taiwan over, which is kind of a no brainer if they see Russia invade Ukraine and get rewarded.

Basic vetting wouldn't have necessarily caught this, it was also years ago, and only being brought up again as a distraction. There was the required oversight and accountability for disbursing the funds, and there is no actual suggestion that CMAC didn't deliver what they were contracted to do...