Recent content by childs56

As much as I should have moved to the US a few years ago for work. I don't want to be an American. I am proud to be Canadian and live in Canada. Despite what the government does, I think there is still good hope to fix things.

Why should be a question we ask ourselves? Why do we have different maintenance requirements? Why do we have different crew sizes? Is what we are doing better then the others or making it more complicated? Or is it simpler then the others. Canada's Military tends to make things more...

https://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2023/2023-05-10/html/sor-dors78-eng.html From 2024 to 2033, the present value of monetized costs is estimated to be $133.5 million and the present value of monetized benefits is estimated at $84.2 million. assumed unit cost of $360 for each unit. If you go...

Lots of Welders/Tradesmen out West vote NDP, they also live in Edmonton and or FIFO from out East so that should sum it up. I know of a few traditional NDP supporters who for some reason have left their Unions, have considered leaving the party they have supported their entire life. I guess the...

Not really hoping for the best, originally we were buying EH101 in two variants, 1 Sar and 1 Maritime. It appears from their website it was built to be multirole and may not take much to convert over. Unless your Canada who needs to create a defense committee to research if the platform is...

The EH101 does have a maritime equivalent, we were going to buy them. I would think with a few upgrades things could work (the parts/ wiring may already be present). . It would depend in the mission equipment specifically fitting the actual space. .

I think he was hoping for a spot with the UN for himself and close friends. But his failure to follow through with his promise "were back" told a further story of his failure to amount to much. Then the dictatorship way he handled covid response and the protests really made him enemies in...

Some how Canada built a part that was critical to the build program. So Canada was part of it from the beginning. The offset process works extremely well when they have something you want. Not so much when you have something they want to make their thing work. The whole program from a Canadian...

Not sure where it says specifically that it rules out ships over 1000tonne. But this is taken from the website for the NSS 1. Construction of large vessels (more than 1,000 tonnes of displacement) Following a competitive, fair, open and transparent process, the government established long-term...

dont forget Davies just purchased Helsinki Shipyard and all their capability. Capacity may not be a problem for them.

I think once the dust settles down from the current ship building plan we will see some outside investment in smaller under utilized Canadian shipyards. There are a few around that could be ramped up for production of smaller ships.

Looking at the current pay scale of NCMs it isn't all that bad. Pte starts at $3614 then $4413 and ends up at $5304. That's a pretty decent starting wage. Cpl wage starting at $6069 an topping out at $6493, Again not bad wages. (I am topped out at the Cpls base wage where I work, I work for...

I am shocked that Vortex is having problems with QC and pricing. :unsure: I still remember the Canadian Sales rep telling me, if your scope fails again just send it in and we will fix and or replace it no matter what. I said what about making a product that doesn't fail under normal use. Then...

They are trying to add to the destabilizing in the middle east. Thinking no one has the will or ability to respond.

2x 5 gallon water jerry cans, the cans weight 5-7lbs each, plus 41ish lbs of water each. That should bring you to that 90-95ish lbs of weight. Dump the water out if you get tired. I use to use one sand bag and jerry can of water myself. Sand bag at the bottom of the ruck, the jerry can and...