Recent content by Kirkhill

I make the same argument for SSK support that I do for AOPS support. Placing stations with boats around the patrol area permits the use of boats with shorter legs and more time on station. In conjunction with the AOPS as tenders and UxVs a solid defensive strategy coud be generated. The crews...

Chester - Caster - Roman military camp Wich - Vicus - the town of camp followers that grew up around the military camp. The Road was the reason for the Caster. Roads were pushed forwards to extract resources and to impose order. The casters were built to secure the Roads. The Vica grew up...

Victorias - complement of 53 Astutes - complement of 98 Virginia - complement of 135. All of our submariners together could man one Virginia. KSS III - complement of 50 212 CD - complement of 27...

By that logic youngsters are more likely to trust this site .....

I'm not sure we can agree that the intent is clear. The Booker was purchased to replace the MGS which was, effectively, an assault gun. The scale of issue, one battalion per division allows for one company per brigade and one platoon per infantry battalion. The debate then turns to should...

Would the Leopard 1 have been considered as an appropriate light tank for an Air Mobile Brigade? Leopard 1 Specifications Mass 42.2 tonnes (increased on later models from original 40 tonnes)[1] Length 9.54/8.29 m (gun forward/rearward) Width 3.37 m Height 2.39/2.7 m (turret...

I'd say it was worse than not pushing north. I'd say they retreated from the north in the 70s. Places like Hearst, Cochrane, Cobalt, Kapuskasing, even Sudbury, were active growth centres in the 50s and 60s. Our neighbour in Peterboro was an Ontario Hydro lineman who emigrated from Belfast to...

I'm guessing that this might have something to do with it.

You mean like harden the existing Moosonee and Churchill railways and use them to support the construction of pipelines in parallel to the existing rails? And improve the existing port at Churchill? I still think that a Moosonee terminal might be worth looking at, even if it has to be a few...

https://thenarwhal.ca/port-of-churchill-explainer/

From the above article.... That may be just about the dumbest excuse for not doing anything I have ever heard. More jobs for the locals on the Bay. Environmental spill response should be a local responsibility. Local crews and local vessels.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-funding-oil-gas-hudson-bay-1.6928302 Prior to the sale of Rupert's Land the major beneficiaries of trade were the Inuit and the Cree. The Inuit traded directly with the HBC. The Cree both traded directly from their own lands and also...

https://jpt.spe.org/concept-ice-resistant-offshore-terminal-arctic-lng-export

I will give you a word currently popular: Diversity. A healthy economy is a diverse economy. And a diverse economy is one that has many streams of income and access to many streams of resources. One rail line running from east to west is not indicative of a diverse, or healthy economy. It...

I apologize for the quality of the image - I couldn't seem to get the blurriness to disappear. In 1670 a couple of Frenchmen (Radishes and Gooseberries - Radisson and Groseilliers) got fed up paying taxes to the government in Montreal. They approached some French associates in London who...