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It was honestly created for two reasons, 1) to equivalize us with allies, not an uncommon decision amoung world militarys and 2) pet project by previous admiral for I can only assume ego reasons justified by point 1

Because (and I'm going to shout in itallics here to try and get the point to everyone on the thread, its not a personal attack), ITS NOT THE COAST GUARDS $*&@ING JOB!!!! Does the road repair crew do law enforcement? How about the fire department? What about the road/bridge engineering and...

And Australia, Japan , NZ and others IIRC.

This is the correct reply. Thanks for such a well written response. I just got my badge sewn on my new NEU's today. And yah, I was irritated that I had to go through the admin of getting it put on (seeing that I'm an engineer now).

It's not an add on. Its a core mission. The RCN was created to be constabulatory. Its been the only mission we've had that hasn't changed in the entire history of the force.

It's not a recce asset because navy's don't do recce (but that's another thread)! But you are completely right in that for AOPS function its weapons are completely in line for its job. Coast Guards in the world do environmental protection, fisheries, aids to navigation, law enforcement and...

The KSIII is a long way away from German designs, even if Hanwha got their start copying them.

So you're saying China has half a million anti ship missiles to arm every fishing vessel? No There is a non-zero possiblity that someone challenges border claims, there is a 100% possiblity of that just from the US. There is a zero probability that someone tries to extract resources that are...

Apparently only enough to complain about size vs weapons not taking into account that its tonnage is entirely based on its ice capability. Twitter, still full of twits.

So what your saying is that the new P-8's get to shoot fish in a barrel? It sounds cool but not without significant modification. A test facility won't have 24-7 watches and certainly won't have the equipment running all the time. The entire point of it is to try out software and hardware...

Thanks, that was more on the nose that I was going to post but similarly I always point to the airforce as the first response to incursion into Canadian waters. If a ship can be in range in 24-48hrs that generally pretty quick in nautical terms. Just fine. That 40 foot trailer can't swim. The...

Lets see, my last deployment... The Spanish OHP hadn't fired its 30mm in about 12 years The Dutch didn't want to fire their 127mm (our old ones) because they were afraid it would break and they didn't have any parts to fix it (how Canadian of them) The Bulgarians aimed their 76mm at our smoke...

I see DE and I read Diesel Electric. Took me a minute. Lol. You can get around some of the DE power requirements with a good bank of capacitors but eventually those are drawn down and you need to recharge them.

M113 (big metal box on tracks) in Ukraine doesn't need a turret to have a role, it can do things for specific jobs like armoured ambulance, or supply runs. What effect would an AOPS bring? Does an AOPS need to be invincible or up armed to bring that effect? Just by being a platform at sea it...

Problem with Navy's is that when they are working their best they don't ever shoot. They just exist. When a Navy is working properly their effects are the lack of shooting, lack of drama. Army's have obvious kinetic effects and territory taken or defended when they are in use.