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Navy gear!  All wet all the time.  If it survives the environment, then it has to survive the operation. As for CANTASS, it would if it could, but no.  The Side Scan rig is a different application of SONAR.  CANTASS is a listener, while Side Scan is a transmit and then listen arrangement.  Lots...

Aye, I hear you loud and clear on the no magic wand.  As for the small domestic needs, perhaps looking 5 to 50 years into our globally warmed future is in order.  We are going to need more vessels for the north, and that will necessarily mean more supply type vessels for the CG, and...

Why does everone keep focusing on military production with this shipbuilding issue.  The entire open water economy of Canada depends on ships, and that includes major offshore support assets (tugs and rigs), navigational support vessels (buoy tenders, survey vessels and Ice Breakers), and...

Gents, No denying that FSTO has some points about the timings, but the harsh naval reality was that during that same time period the East Coast had NATO commitments.  Full time operational taskings that ate up at least three ships during any four month period, as one was operating, one was...

Gents, Destroyer vs Frigate is more a function of armament and capability than it is of weight and dimension.  The Destroyer in our case has that reach-out-and-touch-someone capability in Area Air Defence that the Frigates only have a Self Defence capability of, however, the Frigates do have...