Canadian Surface Combatant RFQ

[Navy_Pete]

On a basic level, is there even the physical infrastructure; warehousing and other more niche storage facilities, transport, etc.) to support whatever a proper spares/mobilization/stockpile setup would look like?

Probably not, or at least not in the right spots. The depots are doing a lot of ongoing work to clean out old stuff that isn't need (lot of spares from equipment that has been disposed of sitting around) which is probably the downside of previous stockpiling but not really tracking what it's spares for, and disposal project being done ad hoc so didn't clean out the inventory. There was a big effort to do that with the 280 disposal, and got rid of 100s of tonnes of redundant spares (some from old steamers), but still missed things. I'm sure it's the same on army and airforce side.

But there are a lot of areas of the country with huge amounts of space so not an impossible problem.

 

[quadrapiper]

Probably not, or at least not in the right spots. The depots are doing a lot of ongoing work to clean out old stuff that isn't need (lot of spares from equipment that has been disposed of sitting around) which is probably the downside of previous stockpiling but not really tracking what it's spares for, and disposal project being done ad hoc so didn't clean out the inventory. There was a big effort to do that with the 280 disposal, and got rid of 100s of tonnes of redundant spares (some from old steamers), but still missed things. I'm sure it's the same on army and airforce side.

Not at all surprised, especially given the number of inventory management systems that steamer spare would have survived.

But there are a lot of areas of the country with huge amounts of space so not an impossible problem.

Always surprising to see how much space is left Colwood-side for Esquimalt, especially given how Dockyard feels like a seabird colony.

Sidebar: could some magic be worked and a DND harbour ferry service be brought back to life? Wonder how many hours are lost every year thanks to people having to drive back and forth for duty reasons or to book off significant work time to make appointments.

Much less practical, but much more fun than staring at tail lights in View Royal: an "outside" run connecting Work Point, the harbour, Albert Head, and Rocky Point.

 

[Halifax Tar]

On a basic level, is there even the physical infrastructure; warehousing and other more niche storage facilities, transport, etc.) to support whatever a proper spares/mobilization/stockpile setup would look like?

Just speaking for Halifax we divested of a number of warehouses in the HRM in the last 20ish years.

Having said that Irving and Thales have happily filled that gap for us.

But we are lucky that the HRM has large industrial areas and is in a building boom, so if we want too expand our warehousing square footage we could.