And is that a bad thing?
Never said it was, I'm sure they'll find employment as a floating gas can it does great work.
Over the last say 8-10yrs, we've not had a lot of 'wins' from what I've been able to gather on here or in the day to day news coverage with our ability to make our Allies 'happy' with us and with what we've been able to do, weather in the air, on the water or on land.
100% not a bad thing and its done was the RCN wanted, just at a high cost.
If Asterix is able to promote a CDN shipyard and its ability to deliver a solid, dependable workhorse of an ersatz AOR, why should we begrudge them or pee in their pool? It doesn't make any sense at all.
Well they have no issues throwing shade and again they have ongoing limitations, who doesn't put in enough tank baffles? The only reasons I can think of is incompetence or rushing to get the ship on lease.
I'd love to be able to do a side by side comparison down the road of cost vs delivered capability of the Asterix vs the first JSS over the length of the Asterix lease
What capability and availability was delivered at what cost between the 2 of them within the fixed timeline of the overall Asterix lease.
I would think JSS would be a lot more expensive in the long run as its a wholly Naval ship with different capabilities and concept of use.