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  1. Navy_Pete

    Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels (MCDVs)

    The weapon systems one is interesting, it seems like there is zero appetite to have completely uncrewed at all when there are weapons and sensors, so there will always be some kind of force protection type component, as the actual legality of an uncrewed ship with weapons is still a bit up in...
  2. Navy_Pete

    Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels (MCDVs)

    It's interesting talking to other navies working on this how many people are actually on the 'unmanned' ships, and how frequently they are crewed. Some countries are now using 'optionally crewed' instead to differentiate. For the collision, not sure how anyone could have engineered the bridge...
  3. Navy_Pete

    Trust in our Institutions

    Forget politics I have no trust in the RCN as an institution, why should the GoC writ large be any different?
  4. Navy_Pete

    Baltimore Bridge Collapse

    The technical term is 'fucking fucked'. Took out a main pillar. Sounds like 6 people are missing and presumably dead, pretty brutal. That is a really long bridge run so even with it being a slow speed (but really heavy collision) not sure if someone already on the bridge even had time to get...
  5. Navy_Pete

    Justin Trudeau hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

    We 'accept the risk', and ships frequently deploy on HR operations with defects that don't meet basic SOLAS requirements (let alone have combat survivability capabilities). It's a bone of contention as we used to delay sailings sometimes to actually repair things; that's a lot more rare, even...
  6. Navy_Pete

    Justin Trudeau hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

    That doesn't really translate into working equipment though when budgets for parts, training, in service projects etc get cut, and capitol projects get slowed down by the government (while also needing more people to do the project work because of the ludicrous bureaucracy). Because the ops...
  7. Navy_Pete

    Justin Trudeau hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

    Yeah, fair point, I think that's insane. Even with the people taking deployed leave you can get it covered by a small group so that one person will cover off 4 or 5 leave blocks for their peers so the actual rotation of crew is pretty minimal, aside from the one off positions, where it's a...
  8. Navy_Pete

    Justin Trudeau hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

    Not really, a lot of our billets are a combination of having a job while doing training, so pretty normal to be working on OJTs for the next job while doing one of the MSE positions until you get to the EO/CERA spots (and then you are doing the oversight of training). Tapers way down but no...
  9. Navy_Pete

    Justin Trudeau hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

    Is that before or after the $800M to in service funding cuts? We not only got turned down for hundred of millions in O&M demand we also are going to eat a cut, so it's a double whammy
  10. Navy_Pete

    Justin Trudeau hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

    Except the Navy does force generation during force employment, so that balance always causes friction with CJOC.
  11. Navy_Pete

    A Deeply Fractured US

    WTAF is their problem? They don't really need any opposition when they are their own worst enemy, and are completely unable to actually govern. The lack of basic competence and ability to adult is amazing; this kind of inability to compromise and work towards a common goal is a fairly basic...
  12. Navy_Pete

    Commander of 8 Wing Trenton arrested, charged in hunting incident

    Thanks, that seems reasonable for a city dwelling hunter or target shooter but probably not practical for something like a farm or someone living remotely in an area with bears, coyotes etc. I guess you are probably at pretty low risk though of getting arrested for that, unless you do something...
  13. Navy_Pete

    Commander of 8 Wing Trenton arrested, charged in hunting incident

    As a non-gun owner, would 5(1) (b) (i) include something like a trigger lock? If I'm reading it correctly, the long gun needs to be unloaded, locked up (or unable to fire) and have the ammo also locked up in a separate container?
  14. Navy_Pete

    Logistic Officer questions

    For sure, but I never had to explain the basic contracting process to a post AHOD Navy log two ringer before, or walk them through section 34, but may have been an outlier that I was dealing with that didn't have any real experience thrown into a senior position.
  15. Navy_Pete

    Logistic Officer questions

    Ah, that makes more sense. Wonder how many times they wrote on the screen with crayon before trying MS paint?
  16. Navy_Pete

    Logistic Officer questions

    From a first hand observation, I find that the RCN log officers seem to have a bit more experience in all aspects of logistics, which makes sense as they do a bit of everything. Still can't believe Air logs have officers that specialize in mail delivery; that was a secondary duty for the...
  17. Navy_Pete

    A Deeply Fractured US

    If you or I did that when going for a bank loan, they would pass it on to the police to prosecute you for fraud. If you under reported the value of your assets to the CRA, they would eat your soul and leave you broken. A bunch of experts testified to both sides about whether or not it's common...
  18. Navy_Pete

    A Deeply Fractured US

    All kinds of personal problems I guess. Weirdly none of the underwriters would take a property stake against the bond from someone who was convicted in court of massively over inflating property values when it benefited him and want cash backing. Maybe he should have kept paying his lawyers so...
  19. Navy_Pete

    Canadian Surface Combatant RFQ

    This has come up a few times at the working level in the NATO WG I'm on; essentially it is up to the country and the 'classification' doesn't really matter anyway as they are a legacy from WW1 and 2. I think the only given is that there will be someone with hurt feelings regardless of what we...
  20. Navy_Pete

    Arctic/Offshore Patrol Ship AOPS

    I think the draft restrictions were something like 44' from the normal 50' draft for the deep water cargo ships. That's still more than double what our ships sit in, so should be good there. Not sure if they updated it recently but last I could find they also had a reduction in number of trips...
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