It should be noted that the reason that we don't have a shipbuilding is because we DID execute a national shipbuilding strategy. The Liberals, when pressed to move on such a strategy decided not to have a world class shipbuilding industry. They instructed the Irvings to fill in their ship yard...
You are half right. Australia purchases building rights but are also currently retrofitting (converting) - MT DELOS converting to a role of RAN Auxiliary Oiler (AO) to what will become HMAS SIRIUS. Though this is an interim measure to last till new builds come online.
I have added thoughts, stories, and prayers for and about:
Cpl Jamie Brendan Murphy
MCpl Tim Wilson
Cpl Randy Joseph Payne
Sgt. Craig Paul Gillam
Cpl. Robert Thomas James Mitchell
Sgt Shane Stachnik
With help from people on this forum and others. Keep in touch...df
The Liberals practice a form of politics called Brokerage Mode Politics, the accommodative, pragmatic policies the party has employed in both election campaigns and the day-to-day operation of government - in other words find out what the polls want you to say and say it. That doesn't...
I am a serving member of the CF - Navy, Marine Systems Engineer. This was my first post on this forum, though I have read through it several times. I spent most of 2001 in the Persian Gulf/Arabian Sea: first enforcing UNSCR 942 Sanctions against Iraq (Jan-Jul) and then OP APOLLO Roto 0 (Oct-Mar...
I am a currently serving member who has put together a site to gather stories about people who have fallen in combat. I have put most of my effort into the people we have lost in Afghanistan though there is some on others, mostly VCs.
The purpose of this is to try to get to know those Soldiers...
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