Arctic/Offshore Patrol Ship AOPS

[Cloud Cover]

Did you miss the shenanigans with what was needed for MAX to get day SWOAD? Don't worry, lessons were not learned for the JSS design.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

Did you miss the shenanigans with what was needed for MAX to get day SWOAD? Don't worry, lessons were not learned for the JSS design.

I try to stay well away from that shit, nowadays.

 

[Halifax Tar]

I am agnostic on that subject.

I care about output/operational effects, more than I care about capbadge/occupational protection rackets.

But.

If the RCN is going to play with the big kids, they had better get religion on Flight Safety and Airworthiness. Fast.

It aould be a major step backwards for capability. The ability to carry humans is a pretty key capability for our MH platforms.

That said, augmenting our MH with a capable UAS is definitely the way forward in my opinion.

Both great points I was only thinking about dropping torps.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Not to mention if your using a UAS, you are transmitting, but with a helicopter you don't always have to.

 

[Edward Campbell]

Not to mention if your using a UAS, you are transmitting, but with a helicopter you don't always have to.

True, but there are ECM resistant modes which alleviate some (man? most?) of the risks.

 

[Underway]

Did you miss the shenanigans with what was needed for MAX to get day SWOAD? Don't worry, lessons were not learned for the JSS design.

JSS from day one considered flight safety, down to the external airlock and hatch night lighting to be green lighting instead of red (so it doesn't mess up NVG's). The anal retentiveness of the Civilian IC and Pilots attached to the PMO would have made any Airforce Sea Trainer or Flight Safety representative shed (safe) tears of bureaucratic joy.

AOPS as I say all the time is the George Costanza project. All their instincts were wrong and we should do the exact opposite.