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The Orca's are in essence a cabin cruiser with a .50...how effective do you actually think they will be at inshore patrol? All they will establish is a prescence not a deterence
Colin P said:Well they certainly are an improvement over the YFP's and being armed with a .50cal is an improvement, personal in this day and age no naval vessel should be unarmed, at the very least equipped and setup to be armed on a moments notice. They make a good mother ship for RHIB's for the Olympics.
But their primary role will be navigation and basic seamanship training throughout most of their operational lives.
Ex-Dragoon said:Personally I would love to have a flotilla of FPBs for coastal ops but not at the expense of the frigates and destroyers.
Halifax Tar said:I toatlly agree and thats not what I meant. I just wonder if a flotilla of FPBs wouldnt be better suited to OP CARRIBE, Anti-Piracy roles more than a major surface combatant.
jollyjacktar said:I was once told by someone who was around when the MCDV's were being discussed and decided upon that there were two camps. One wanted the MCDV's and one wanted MTB's as the replacement for the Gate boats. The process was he said, long and bloody and the MTB camp lost the arguement and battle. I think that small attack boats would be great for coastal work, but would they not have the legs to do anti-piracy ops? You would have to have them at the very least staged out of central locale of some sort. I can't see us getting into that sort of arrangement with a foreign host anytime soon. But, hell yeah I'd love to see MTB's or some other fast littoral combattant make a comeback in the RCN.
jollyjacktar said:I was once told by someone who was around when the MCDV's were being discussed and decided upon that there were two camps. One wanted the MCDV's and one wanted MTB's as the replacement for the Gate boats. The process was he said, long and bloody and the MTB camp lost the arguement and battle. I think that small attack boats would be great for coastal work, but would they not have the legs to do anti-piracy ops? You would have to have them at the very least staged out of central locale of some sort. I can't see us getting into that sort of arrangement with a foreign host anytime soon. But, hell yeah I'd love to see MTB's or some other fast littoral combattant make a comeback in the RCN.
In the case of OP CARIBBE, that would likely mean Djibouti and