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The tensioning cabling on the CEROS 200 (fire control) feed horn (for lack of detailed name of it) is made of Kevlar. Most ship's guardrails are also now of kevlar. The other concern about guy wires would be sympathetic RF if the wavelength of the guy wire (metal) is similar to the period of...

Affirmative. And the MCDV's. The original 3pdr mount has been adapted with a .50 cal mount base so it matches the bolt hole pattern.

I recall in the 90's seeing the 40mm Bofors guns that cycled through FMFCS for refurbishment as they were prepped to arm the MCDV's. It's been a few years, but I stopped to look at each of the green painted Receivers that were stripped and awaiting refinishing (and repainting!) and noted that...

Of note, we still use the same saluting guns today. After her second refit, Bonnie had the forward set of 3"50's removed and several of the forward boat bays closed up. The seas that we operated her in resulted in those boats being damaged, and apparently the guns as well.

Yup. Bonnie never had 40mm Bofors. She had 4x 3"50 twin mounts, plus 3x 6 pdr Saluting guns.

The Arrow would have been amazing. Unfortunately, the cost of making it amazing was too high. Pulling the same design out and pumping out a couple of hundred of them to equip our airforce today would be absolute foolishness. It was a single function design that was aimed to fight a manned...

Problem with the Super Stoker program was that it was 'training for the street not the fleet.' With the roll-over to MARTECH, there was even less need to meet 'street' standards, and so there was a greater divergence, and even less place for such qualifications. As we roll back to something...

The budget will balance itself.... The personnel issues will balance themselves.... We'll grow the economy from the heart... We'll grow the fleet from the heart... Simple as that!

This is my 'not surprised face'.

That video is a pretty good explainer based on publicly available info. Good news - the designer was apparently onboard, so he cannot foist his crazy designs upon anyone else ever again. I suspect that at this point it's done for them. That was my opinion from the start, unfortunately. If...

Jumping back to the topic at hand, (as neat as the Mars is) what is DHC building in Calgary? Recent looks at their social media indicates that they've got at least one CL-515 coming off the line, indicating some level of production capability ongoing on top of maintenance and parts manufacture...

The world is a lesser place. I have interacted with him online, he was, what I would call, an advanced collector of Canadian Arms and Militaria. Rest peacefully.

Once upon a time, I joined a ship (HMCS Charlottetown) and was posted to that ship for 56 months. Within that 56 month period, I was away from home for 39 months. I did 3 sets of workups, and 2 deployments, and when the ship was alongside doing a refit in the midst of that, I was on another...

OK, jumping back to the theoretical Operations Room, I see a lot more consoles than others do. *Bear in mind, this is all inference based solely on my understanding of OPS rooms, and I have no actual knowledge of how this is actually being setup. I see that there are likely 16, 3 of these...

Twin 120mm AMOS mortar turret....my 'old' solution from 2012 brought back to life.

You could call it a Special Commissioning Process?

I remember on NATO '98 we had the CO come down to the JR's one afternoon. We were alongside for a lot of days in foreign port for a RAMP, and he decided (I guess) to come see how we were doing. Truthfully, we were bored...and making up new beverages. We created a new drink, which we called...

Indeed...what's old is new again.... http://www.forposterityssake.ca/CTB-BIO/MEM002043.htm Indeed, it's not that old. STJ upon Commissioning had a ship's Mascot:

I 'voted with my feet' when I had a major falling out (up to the Brigade SM Level) with the Mess Manager when they refused to re-open our 'satellite mess' because it was 'losing money'. I was rather blunt...the civilian Mess Manager needed to understand why exactly it wasn't losing money, but...