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That would have been a different sort of problem. They looked at Burkes but the crewing requirements are about 120 more people per ship. Old decisions vs new realities. Looking back it might have been a better decision. But at the time it made little sense. @Kirkhill you know that the...

Then we'll get more missile. Or we won't and fill them with something else. It's kinda putting the cart before the horse here don't you think? Perhaps we worry about filling the loadout when we actually get the ship that can take that loadout!

Some adult conversations for adult thinking people. Good to see he's publically stating what he was discussing in town halls with all the Officers and CPO/POs this last year.

SPY 7 is a go. There's no changing tack on that now. The first one will beginning to be installed in 27-28 at Harlen Point. They've already paid for the first four basically. It's not like no one else is getting them. Japan, Spain and I think one other country (might be looking not buying yet).

To add to @Lumber 's statement there will be no screwing around if things are not exactly "correct". The RCN may take a half capable ship as per the letter of the contract to get them going and fix stuff later, and on the next ships coming out. Its going to be cheaper to sail a new ship with...

I was going to go with a different berret colour but your's is better.

22 has legs. RCN ships carry all three TDL's. Just use them to talk to different people in different places.

L11 is not going to be supported in the next few years. L16 has specific hardware for naval units. That's about as far as I can go before I get a knock at the door...

Lockeed's response to Raytheon dominance I think. I've never even heard of that system.

About 6 years ago. They aren't container cranes though. Underneath them is a "shakespear in the park" style setup facing the water. I honestly think its for event\ lighting etc... as there is a walkway all the way to the end of the boom. Took a good buddy of mine out for diner last night and...

Right beside the warfare centre does make sense. The building beside the centre is falling apart anyways and needs to be flattened and rebuilt. And its not considered historic.

Right on cue! https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/cfb-halifax-to-get-new-188m-training-facility-1.7032438

We won't know the answer to what CSC 12 looks like until they approve the design for the third flight of ships. That's like 18 years away or something at this point.

To be clear this isn't necessarily a bad thing. Every project at a certain point goes past the "we can change this thing" yardstick and into "this is what you're getting, deal with it". It will be in place for operators, the SOU is basically already signed, just the details to work out. RCN...

I don't think its about a "training ground" its about a minimum inherent amount of nuclear expertise. Canada has both an industry to produce nuclear reactors and maintain them. Its has technicians and experts in the field that have experience working on and with nuclear industry. Canada has...

Yep. Probably the most important upgrade the Burkes have ever gotten. Combined with the SPY-6 radar its going to keep them very relevent combat wise going forward for a while. I'm surprised its that big though.

To do BMD you need to do the detect to engage sequence. This requires the following (very generalized) steps. Detect, localize, identify (classify), track, target, engage, kill assessment. You can see from this list that AEGIS and sensors are completely integrated with each other in every...

I didn't say that. I said point/self and local while contributing to area air defence. CEAFAR radars have never been integrated with Aegis before, - technical risk here CEAFAR radars need to be able to reach out to 150nm to match a SPY system radar - L band can do it, but with that few...

An area air defence capability. That setup can do limited area air defence. Its optimized for point/self defence and local defence (crossing targets). Area air will have to rely on offboard sensors. Can it participate in an area air role? Yes. Can it run the show? No. Those subs won't...

I think I pointed this exact trade off out a little while ago (or I thought about it and didn't). I think that this missile load out would be a mistake. At the end of the day do the Aussies want another AAW destroyer or a GP frigate. This ship they are showing is half pregnant. The...