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The thing is, CRCN doesn't actually dictate what projects are funded (and neither does head of the Army or Airforce). He can say whatever he wants, but doesn't mean we aren't suddenly $100M plus short on in service funding, and suddenly have more crews than platforms (vice about .6 or less)...

Because this is always funny to me; the SNL ATC skit with James MacAvoy. Also, to keep it nautical, the German coast guard;

I had to look that up; that's enough internet for today (also probably not wrong).

I've heard the same from actual submariners as well; 6 to 8 gives the operational capability they want, but not sure how you grow from less then 2 crews to 8. Across the board, crew is our limiting factor, and the cost for reduced crews in build and maintenance can be crippling. Sometimes not...

I've actually been that planner, and this had really nothing to do with the decision. It was strictly to push work to FMF, which in some cases wasn't able to get done because of the impact on the ship's operation for having to shut down the entire firemain to replace some valves, so just put it...

Fortunately even the RCN knows that nuclear submarines are a terrible idea for Canada if we ever want to actually see them, and the word went out that anybody that floats the idea will be dealt with severely. Nice to see a bit of actual sense for a change, as we'll already be hard pressed to...

The RCN does this all the time; we'll push work from DWPs to the FMFs, but means the nice coats of paint we just refreshed needs to be partially stripped off to do hotwork, or try and do repairs/part replacements on the firemain while it's needed, instead of doing it while it's dry for 2+ years...

Still, won't happen again, we'll either sell them on or scrap them ourselves. Lot more work and cost to prep them for reefing than just dispose of them. The small auxiliaries at the end of life might find a second home somewhere else, but for MCDVs, CPFs etc they'll be used for alongside...

Yeah, I think that's without arisings and without the coming changes to the work packages to try and extend the op cycle (and to fix things while they are shut down for 2 years)

Curious to see what will happen with the CPFs; the baseline estimate is now up at $500m, which is insane. Even with a few of them gone, still well short people but will definitely help.

I fully agree with you, it's an order of magnitude more costly to run and operate the AOPs, and they can't replace each other's capabilities, but I think the reality is we have to give up a lot of somethings to run the AOPs and JSS, and even with winding down a CPF or two and some subs we can't...

Some of the old auxiliaries got sold off, but we're officially never going with a reef society again after having to take a few back and then disposing of them properly and also spend millions more on others to support artificial reefs. With the changing environmental regs usually by the time...

There is actually an offer from a Pacific Rim country to buy them. Sale of ships is interesting, at one point there was a serious proposal to sell Huron to some Shiek to turn into a superyacht. It got turned off because it turned out some critcal systems were still officially ITAR (even if it...

That's good news, only taken 2 years. I hope they realize the entire jawline is part of the sealing area, so basically leaves you with a stache and slightly longer sideburns, and maybe a soul patch.

I think it's ignoring the safety and operational requirement bit that is the issue but I also don't think having to run a comb through hair and beards and requiring it to look neat is unreasonable. Hopefully this brings a bit of sanity back, but doesn't really change that we're currently eating...

May be seeing their tailights but they are hotboxing their car and thinking happy thoughts, but they probably have some senior navy folk there with them. I think the GoC figures the AOPs will replace the MCDVs, even if they are completely different roles and capabilities (and cost way more to...

It's nice they specifically mention the Respiratory protection program; that's the one that includes the specific direction for being clean shaven for fire fighting masks and what is very sporadically enforced. Some units actually enforce it and have everyone clean shaven without a med chit...

This isn't new; that's been going on my whole adult life. The difference is more on the governing side of things where it seems like any idea from the other side is automatically stupid. At least before they used to freely poach from each others campaign plans etc, which I think is great.

Don't care about that, it's more that they spend time sniping at each other just to get a 15 second clip for tic tok instead of every actually collaborating on anything. They are so polarized across the board they are unable to actually compromise and work with people they don't like to get shit...

It really pisses me off generally that we spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year on running Parliament and they can't even conduct themselves to the level of civil behaviour you expect in primary school. How many of us would be fired/charged or otherwise punished for behaving like this at...