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1) single largest project in Canadian military history. Potential for massive blowouts on top of already budgeted cost. 2) the RCN would not know what to do with 12 submarines. They couldn’t figure it out with 4, which is why they normally operate with 3 of them tied up. 3) the RCN cannot even man t...

It’s unfortunate, but the project goes on. Hopefully it’ll get cancelled before it destroys the rest of the defence budget in general and the RCN in particular.

Honestly I'm not sure. Never seen any lawyer in them... Anecdotal evidence appear to suggest that it has been done: Had a visiting lawyer from Glasgow representing his client in our court today who was very interested my black kilt/argyle jacket combination with the court robe. It seems his brother...

And there is the problem - that I have to wear a traditional suit under the robes! :D Commission summer weight suits and robes. Go for the lightest, most breathable fabric you can find that doesn’t look unprofessionally cheap. Won’t help today, but will be useful later in the year. That would work ...

I usually sleep in my basement in Colorado in the summer, which is both much cooler and 100% dark, good for sleeping. Alas I finaily got a radon detector and its results show...its not a good idea for long term health. FWIW, I knew a number of people that slept within a few hundred feet of a workin...

Is refitting homes with heat pumps helping with the AC issues at all?

“If it flies then shoot it down,
Sort it all out on the ground”
-all AAW operators ever

Craiglxviii wrote: ↑Mon Dec 15, 2025 5:12 pm

Drunknsubmrnr wrote: ↑Mon Dec 15, 2025 5:10 pm We had beers and cigars a couple of weeks ago. He’s doing fine.

Good stuff. Really glad to hear that. Didn’t he recently move house, or did I invent that?

He’s become a hipster. I keep expecting him to show up in flannel and a beanie and order bacon in his drinks.

We had beers and cigars a couple of weeks ago. He’s doing fine.

I definitely thought “Latinx” but I also meant “Il/elle” or whatever other pronouns are involved. Perhaps the elusive “Lui” which doesn’t seem to be used much in either Alberta high school French or in anglophone/bilingual CF units.

Now that it’s almost Fire pit season in NJ I have a question I have thought about it and I have to say I have no idea.

How do gendered languages like French or Spanish work with transgendered people?

If you’re looking for passenger/cargo out of small gravel or paved strips, there’s also the DHC-7.

Doesn’t that look a lot like the B-52G’s tail mount?

Given there are no 'Brig' or equivalent spaces aboard, must hope there's enough duct tape to 'wrap the Xmas Tree' before stuffing miscreant into torpedo tube. Open door from time to time to replace air. Close to muffle ranting about Chthonian monsters again whispering in the reactor core... “Cox’n ...

The real issue isn’t the ice, although that is a problem. It’s that the op area is so far away from our only two ports that diesel boats would spend all their time getting there and returning. Same thing as the Germans found in WWII but worse, because modern diesel boats have a transit speed half th...

If they want to protect their Artic coast from Russian, Chinese, (US), subs they do. If for some reason, the Northwest passage is navigable any time of the years, they'll subs as part of the patrol element. Not with diesel boats. If we were serious about it we’d use nukes. This is just performative.

What they’ve missed is that they would have been unable to operate Cornerbrook even if she had been fixed. They don’t have any trained submariners and they blew the normal operating spares years ago.

The new submarine project will be in a similar position if they put it in operation.

I think they’ve missed an awful lot in that article. It doesn’t help that they keep talking to VADM Norman, who is the living proof that someone can be both unjustly seen off and a sh*tpump at the same time. Naval procurement in Canada is usually an example of what not to do. Even when we get someth...

It looks like the current Admin is trying to increase whatever is likely to be available in the short term vs platforms that won’t be available for a long time.

You could have had the Type 26 you know. 😉 The USN could not handle the Type 26. It only has 24 missile cells. The RAN has folded, spindled and mutilated the design to bump that to 32, but they’ve had to put more into redesigning it than the USN has put into Constellation. Sounds like it’s time to ...