Canada moves to 2% GDP end of FY25/26 - PMMC

[Kirkhill]

I got the impreesion the Norwegians and Commandos were planning on using them in the North Atlantic and icy waters. In waters not dissimilar to where the dory men used to fish.

Fun fact. Those dories, and their Hudson Bay twins, were designed in Scandinavia over 1300 years ago. They were good enough to go island hopping along the North Atlantic ice edge.

 

[Kirkhill]

You mean, probably in the case of the UK, the Royal Navy will be using them with some Royal Marines on board as required.

I might be wrong, but Jack isn't too keen on letting bootnecks operate anything larger than a flatbottomed boat with a ramp on the front within a stone's throw from the beach.

It occurs to me that at 60 tonnes and 20 metres they are in the same class as these:

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Interesting, I wonder how TBS would take to this form of accounting and how it works when a government changes?

https://twitter.com/x/status/2034204419940647164

 

[dapaterson]

DND already has a 20 year investment plan. Approved by TBS.