TKMS Type 212CD (Victoria class replacement megathread)

[YZT580]

I think oldcpu brings up a good point on the logistical side of supplying an AIP equipped sub, handling these gases in a quantity far larger than ever before. Hopefully the RCN is going to take a long hard look at how other navies do it.

By the looks of the owners, most of the current AIP subs are not operating too far from home plate so local suppliers and permanent hookups would work just fine for them. Our transit times to, for example, Bering Strait would be at least a week submerged (guesstimate) Our needs will probably require a unique solution for others to copy

 

[lenaitch]

And, in order to show ownership one must prove possession and a manifest intent to exclude all others. Mere occupation is not enough. This is what Argentina found out after Britain schooled them in 1982. In our case, just because we can draw a better map based on what lands and waters the British Crown granted 160 years ago, doesn’t establish either. Right now anybody can sail up to X0E 0Z0 and claim a vacant, undefended island full of Muskox and evict some startled Inuit. The good news is they’ll die from cold, darkness and isolation while Inuit take a JTAC course .

Certainly not my area of even basic knowledge, but I thought the efforts to establish an agreed- upon 'pie' of Arctic Exclusive Economic Zones between the Arctic nations was more geographic/hydrographically based and depended on establishing the extent of continental shelves, among other things.

 

[Cloud Cover]

Certainly not my area of even basic knowledge, but I thought the efforts to establish an agreed- upon 'pie' of Arctic Exclusive Economic Zones between the Arctic nations was more geographic/hydrographically based and depended on establishing the extent of continental shelves, among other things.

Yes but one comes with the other. What is the shelf attached to. Who claims ownership and based upon what? A Crown grant? How is that working out in British Columbia with The Indians?