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Yeah. That was really dumb..

What I'm saying is - has anyone considered that we might need to grow a navy in a hurry, like before, and are we better prepared to? The answers I've gotten so far are 1. Don't be a dink, 2. Do some research before you make an idiot out of yourself, 3. No. We won't need to have a much larger...

Let me clarify. What I meant by "Straw Man", by its definition, is that I held one position in the arguement about naval doctrine, and he chose to modify my position into an attack on his credentials and make the debate about that. Which I was not doing-I was clumsily asking him to dig into his...

That's what we call a "straw man" argument. You should be in politics. Anyway. Fair enough. I have been sufficiently "Told".

Has anybody considered the fact that you can't go completely silent with a nuke sub? You can't turn the reactor off. You can mitigate noise very well, but its always there. The Victoria class, however, can shut everything down and just passively listen, undetected by subs trying to sneak around...

I forgot that its still WWII and mines are floating around out there that still function based on magnetic field differentials. I hope the day never comes when ships are electronically differentiated by their acoustic signature and targeted based on the greatest strategic value. But that's just...

Hitachi and Daewoo would disagree with your first statement. Conscripts to dilute the highly skilled regulars for your second statement. We're not talking about that - to your third statement  ;D.  So then If not this, then what? PS: If you complain, they'll hire me a helper

Again I go back to the posit that they have to be cheap and quick to build, AND that you have to build a couple to use as training platforms, AND use them to update the concept as time goes on, in order to meet new threats. You'd have to oufit them with the inexpensive, easy to acquire, domestic...

Seriously dude? We should have learned that: If you're going to maintain a naval force (or any other military contingent) at minimal levels in peace time WITH the advanced knowlege of the relative change in scale that a major world conflict would require in said force, it is prudent to harbour...

Sorry. I did cut them a bit short, and "crap" was the wrong thing to say. But you won't convince me that they were the right ship for the time or the job. They were slower on the surface than a submerged U-boat and, at least initially, insufficiently armed to execute their duties. You MUST have...

At the beginning of 1939 canada had a naval force of about 11 combat vessels, and our navy turned to the Corvette to meet the need for escort vessels while the more complex and expensive construction of destroyers and frigates grew to meet the need. The corvette was a piece of crap, but at least...

How long does it take a CF-18 with armaments to fly up to the Northwest Passage?

Its funny, the Americans aren't interested in breaking ice anymore. They have one ice breaker left, in an extended refit (Polar Star) -Polar Sea is to be decomissioned. They have Ice Capable ships, but it doesn't look like they want to break ice anymore.

I shouldn't imply that we had a reforce ship. The Edmonton had to take on a lot of regforce engineers though. Taking in all the ships, I saw 16 regforce engineers getting checked out on the machinery.

What did "Blended" look like out east? I don't want to say that we had a reg force ship out west, but.....