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Empires indeed. I was at a meeting about 18 months ago wherein I was advised by CFFS(E) that a Naval Reserve MESO C ticket fresh off a 3 year posting as a CERA on a MCDV would require 18 months classroom instruction before being allowed to sail as the engineer on an ORCA. Fortunately this...

Snakedoc; The term "mnor war vessel" was invented in the 60's to take into account certain discrepancies between reserve MARS training and Reg F. It was later extended to take into account that smaller warships lack a sophisticated Ops Room as well as size discrepancies. The current concept...

No, but to do a strike mission where a pilot's life is more at risk. They are already doing this. The point is that while a 16" shell doesn't have a pilot, nor does a Tomahawk or a Predator. The navies who actually have these weapons systems have weighed the advantadges of manned strike...

The official line with respect to the AOPVs is that there will me a 'mix' of regular force and reserve crew members and as far as this goes I believe it to be accurate. The simple reality is that the navy as a whole is short a great of sailors. Estimates in the main stream media have quoted...

How about a CBG with cruise missiles and Armed UAV's? No threat to pilots then. 'Recall' of weapon once launched is still an issue with cruise missiles but ultimately the BB is a concept of the past - too many people required to man them.