Need to get the crew numbers down, by how many I clearly don't know but we can't go forward with a dozen or more 220+ crewed GPF's - in addition to all the Rivers, Type 212CD's AOPV's, etc coming down the pipe.
For sure. There’s also berthing for 440’ 4700t ships. There’s the question of GT’s and diesels. Lots of ship for the envisioned role, maybe too much. But the flip side is a proven design that has stood the test of time. It’s a nice benchmark, but probably a bit overkill.
The only war we should be making 90% of our effort to fight is one that could happen here. And for that we need a much bigger part time army and an airforce that can lift a lot of equipment. Our defence policy of the past 75 years to first defend other countries is just not facing the reality of our … lol … dangerous and divided world.
You know it’s possible to support a large army and actually have it at home to defend Canada instead acting as a trip wire to be quickly stomped into oblivion in another European war. And that goes for the Navy and the Air Force as well. People here at home are about to become very pissed about paying taxes and having services cut in order to witness to a defence budget grow to 100 billion + to defend Europe, and create more millionaire defence hub founders than actual soldiers anyway.
It's an interesting issue. I won't try to pretend. I lived through unification and it was a dog's breakfast; I'll never miss an opportunity to slag it. Reading John Conrad's recent book I came across this statement vis-a-vis the effects of unification on the army's logistics system.
IMHO, rather than merging three services into one, unification created one service with the requisite three "sub-services" but also created one overarching fourth sub-service which was the purple corporate structure. Not only does this corporate structure waste precious resources which ought to go to the field, but it consumes precious time by way of calcified bureaucratic processes. It would have been far better to leave the three services each with their own budget and left to their own devices to manage it within the directions given to each by the government. As it is, major capital decisions are retained by cabinet anyway. All the CAF manages are how to shuffle PYs around. Jointness in force employment existed long before unification/integration. IMHO, unification did not increase operational capabilities; it just added distant bureaucratic layers - and as Selkirk said - strategically devolved the purple trades to the lowest common denominator.
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What effect do they bring?
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Hellyer fundamentally misunderstood how much that a culture developed over hundreds of years will entrench an institution.One stupid concept.
I would argue every ship mentioned will carry SOME autonomous capability and maybe less manned helicopters
I'm not the one that suggested an L1 was irrelevant. There's value in having all 4 elements with sufficient resources and equipment to do their jobs domestically and abroad. The constant victim culture of RCN trying to claim big bad Army is taking all their money is tiresome.
