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You'd have to talk to a Navy type, but my understanding is that hydrological data is constantly changing...current flow rates and directions, density, salinity, temperature, etc. and these factors can have significant tactical impacts on operations (particularly submarine/ASW operations). It's...

Navigation, submarine/ASW ops, MCM operations, environmental effects on sensors, etc. would all greatly benefit from accurate charts and details on currents, water temperature, density, etc..

Absolutely. We need to look at the effects we want to achieve and see how we can best achieve them with the money and manpower we have available. Like you say, not everything has to be done by a traditional manned warship. Non-combatants can act as nodes/mother ships for some of these...

I 100% get the importance of non-combatant ships for a navy. As you say 99.99% of the role of a navy isn't war fighting. I'm a fan of the MDCVs, AOPS, Rivers, etc. and think Canada should have them. The problem comes the other 0.01% of the time when there IS a war. In the past ships were...

As noted one type of platform can't replace another. It's a system of systems that complement each other. The side with the advantage could quite possibly be the one that has the better overall system rather than the better individual platforms. One could argue that was the case with the...

I think that the point being made is that the availability of certain technical capabilities within a nation does not an arms industry make. Given the right incentives and enough money Canada could produce anything. But the incentives and money aren't currently there. Some people point to...

And prepare now while we still have companies and organizations that have resources and experience from dealing with Covid. Those skills and capabilities will soon be lost/atrophied as we return to our "normal" way of doing (or not doing) things.

I'll have what you're having... 🍺

Yikes...don't shoot the messenger! LOL I'm a P-8 fan myself...but unfortunately logic doesn't win every fight!

An article in the Ottawa Citizen says that Bombardier has officially teamed with General Dynamics Mission Systems-Canada to offer a Global 6500-based replacement for the CP-140s. Apparently the team is pushing the fact that GDMS-C already does the sensors on the Auroras and Cyclones and has a...

Well since you brought him up... What Does it Mean That God is a Trinity? - Josh.org Josh.org https://www.josh.org What Does it Mean That God is a Trinity? - Josh.org

I've said before that Canada should try to get in to AUKUS whether or not we go for nuclear submarines or not, but as the posted article states: The highlighted portion is where I see the problem. What do we really have to bring to the table? Probably the main thing that the other members...

Well the 12-15 Kingston/AOPS/River-Class are non-combatants so I guess if the missiles start flying we'll have to do with our 12-15 CSCs (if the war waits long enough for us to build them). Frankly I'm glad I'm not in the navy. We as a nation seem to prefer to learn our lessons the hard way...

Times and situations change. What works in peacetime doesn't necessarily work when conflict looks like a serious possibility. Look at the US Army's Force 2030 changes. The USMC's complete restructuring. Britain's Integrated Review. AUKUS. NATO enlargement and re-investments. Notice any...

Is 15 hulls "plenty enough"? Let's say that China invades Taiwan and Russia uses that opportunity to seize the Baltic States while the West is occupied in the Pacific. We have 15 combatants. Let's say 75% (11) are available for deployment. We contribute 2 to Allied TG's in the Pacific. We...

No complaints about the capability of the CSCs. But it's 15. If we end up in a real shooting war with China and/or Russia it's simply not enough. We might be good in comparison to other countries (that are also woefully lacking in numbers) in per capita numbers but what about in terms of...

Channelling my inner @KevinB ...thinking that 15 x CSC's is a credible military contribution is laughable. Canada is simply not a serious country when it comes to military capability. We've unfortunately been conditioned to delude ourselves that the absolutely minimal contributions our...

You make it sound like people are suggesting we scrap the CSCs. Nobody is. They are a great platform and we should definitely have them. Fifteen combatants for two oceans in a war though isn't enough to actually make a significant contribution. Seven per coast? Four deployed and three in...

But to be fair it was a Hydrogen Fuel Cell bus....

I don't think that anyone is suggesting that we start pumping out platforms that ONLY do ASW just that it should be a primary capability for any of our new platforms and that we don't sacrifice ASW capability for the sake of all-purpose, exquisite ships. One thing ASW needs is quantity. There...