Recent content by Oldgateboatdriver

Yeah! Like, Americans want to go watch soccer games that do not involve a local team!

He is doing the honourable thing. If, after 37 years of loyal service to the nation, you find that you cannot accept the orders or direction from the brand new civilian overseer, it's quite OK to depart early - without penalty - and leave the position opened for someone who can live with the new...

I am not prejudging the individual. I am just commenting on the nature of the infraction described. I just can't wrap my head around a Warrant to Chief Warrant doing this. Persons of that rank literally hold together the ships, squadrons and regiments.

What surprised the hell out of me was that this was not a commissioned officer. I just expect that type of action from a commissioned officer (sorry about that, it's the way I am). But I never expect it from a warrant to chief-warrant officer.

I wonder if orcas would attack one of our Orca's?

No. Yes. Calls for help from someone or thing that can carry out the kill , and steers the hell away from the threat in the meantime.

That seems to line up with the admiral's view of those vessels. Also, as per Underway's view above, the single most likely employment of CDC air asset will be ISR, not ASW. There are good "non-american" candidates for that out there, such as the Airbus Flexrotor, or even bigger, the VSR700.

Look at the exact quote that Gurney puts inside marks: There are only two countries in the world where someone would use that sentence, in that order and with that vocabulary. Now, I bet it wasn't one of us Canuck. I let you guess who the only other nation is.

The primary driver here is that the AOPS are simply not set up to carry ASW torpedoes. So, regardless of whether they embark a Cyclone or not, they can't do ASW prosecution at this point in time.

We have Public Affairs to look after that end. After all, they all want to go into advertising after retirement. :giggle:

The Americans are only half serious at this point. The USN doesn't have surface vessels capability there - it's left to the Coast Guard, and the USCG has access to bases and support facilities in Alaska, including on the North side of it. While the Swedes, Finns, Danish and Norwegians have much...

Bit of over-reaction by the journalist. PM's regularly do not attend Question Period at all, or show up for one question for which they want to be seen answering on the news, then leave. Nothing special here other than the journalist wanting to make it about the Stellantis matter.

The Chinese think so. They still think it's too early to tell if the French Revolution worked out fine.

That's a lot of entertainment you'll get for a mere five bucks.

What reserve units need is something like this, much more than "Orca" class vessels: