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Agreed. As mentioned, a crew of 50 means actually about 20-ish people on watch at a time, and very limited ability to respond to other shipboard emergencies.

So....back to the concept of the HMCS Bras D'or? With a bunch of fast, lightly armed, lightly crewed ships? A concept that was discarded decades ago....? I'm not sure what right looks like anymore on this. I do know that we need ships, and we need sailors. Truly, I think the...

Automation is good. It allowed the reduction of risk from having ship's crews in engineering spaces. IPMS/IMCS let the Navy move from having a bunch of stokers on watch in the spaces, to having a bunch of stokers watching the spaces. Looking at the civilian cruise and cargo ships, the...

I would agree - but, based on the open-source info, it seems that US/UK are using missiles to engage drones that the Houthis are launching.

TBH, as much as we might want to reach up and punch above our weight with a massive load of VLS cells, I have to ask the question. "Will we ever fire them in anger?" I was on CHA during the Libya Fracas, and we did not use any of our heavy armament in response to actual attacks. I know that...

Yeah....those background things aren't very important...who needs cooling for a CIWS or power for a 3D RADAR?

"There is nothing new under the sun."

TBH, anything would be better than the nothing that seems to be happening now.... "Dear all Commonwealth Nations, we are looking to setup a saluting gun battery, and would like to buy all of your old 25 Pdr field guns...please respond with numbers and prices ASAP." Cover off the saluting gun...

I think we've stepped a long way from the C-3 howitzer as we drift into SHORAD and such...any word on new artillery?

So....dumb question....the CT-114 Tutor was originally a jet trainer. Why not shift the Snowbird Mission over to that? Getting the red/white tails in the air with pilot trainees (and IP in the other seat) teaching new pilots how to fly? Cut the airshow circuit in half, and add a training...

Alex, I'll take "Why don't we buy used junk from other Navies anymore" for $1000?

Order a dozen Visby's, straight off the shelf.

Remember - jobs program with ships being a somewhat useful byproduct.

The thing about the Trump wall is that he should never have broadcast it as a 'stop all entry' thing. It should have been designed and setup as a "control entry points" thing.

Dammit, you folks have inspired me to ask the question of my OR staff now.... sigh

I'll observe (and relate this to aircraft stuff in a minute) that at BLog East, we have concerns, but we're working with the system. The problems we're running into is that the MPN:NCAGE combo is sometimes NOT matching. Example, we receive an order referencing a RNCC/RNVC 3-2 which has a MPN...

Perfect....bring a hangar queen along for spare parts on every deployment! ;-)

I work in QC now. I'm actually looking at rejecting a contract right now because the supplier failed to meet the shelf life requirements specified. Agreed - we need to maintain QC, whilst expanding the production capability. There was a time that the phrase "Quantity has a quality all...

Here's the floor plan....I will note that the ship had 4x 500KW Turbo Generators that would normally have supplied power to the ship when she was under steam. I think these were emergency Diesels, or used when alongside and no shore power was available. I note that in zone 4N there were...

Here's the test prints. The one with the black pieces - bunks and diesel engines - that's the 4 deck section. You can see that there's some gaps in the 5 deck section that have to get sorted out and re-printed.