RN Project Cabot and Atlantic Bastion

[Oldgateboatdriver]

Much better to call it:

Contractor Owned
Contractor Operated
Oversight: Naval.

That gives you COCOON.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

And what did the Coast Guard deal with?

I think that the line between civil and military is vanishing.

If the enemy refuses to wear uniforms and works within civilian rules when it suits them then we need to be able to shift from civil to military and back again between breakfast and mid-morning coffee.

The aircraft looked for oil pollution mainly. Ships are navaids, Science, fisheries, ice breaking, SAR.

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

Basically, what the UK is doing is rebuilding the GIUK gap barrier capability of the Cold War by using current technology of mobile systems instead of the fixed sonar arrays of lore. It's a bit like a more extensive group of the old SURTASS ships (SURface Towed Array Sonar System ships, they were the original "stealth" ships that the US could deploy. They dragged huge towed array sonar with much greater range of capabilities than the warship deployed ones and could be sent out far away from the convoys to provide early warning. They carried no ASW weapons.)