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Forum: Current Events Topic: DND responds after documents suggest Navy procurement troubl |
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Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 10:03 am
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| When a government say's $26 billion, did they account for inflation (that $26 billion today will be $52 billion 30 years from now)? If so, this should be a non-story. If not, fucking idiots. You'd think so, but no. Inflation is the reason the Navy is getting two AORs instead of three (but at the or... |
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Forum: Federal Elections Topic: Justin Trudeau vows to scrap F-35 fighter jet program |
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Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 11:48 am
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| Just this morning, Rosemary Barton on Power and Politics said we already have $600 million manufacturing contracts, those jobs have already started. Failure to buy the thing will not cancel those contracts. No, but we will definitely not get anything else, and be reduced to target practise. Again. ... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Tom Mulcair as PM would end Canada's fight with ISIS |
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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2015 10:45 am
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| Neither will a total of four sorties against ISIS. Which is what we've done so far. So you'd rather ISIS conduct four missions here against us and kill Canadians instead? Give your head a shake. The 'four' missions we've flown against ISIS is a hell of a lot more than some countries are doing. We c... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Navy's East Coast flagship probably 'will never sail again,' |
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Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 8:39 am
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Replies: 38
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| [quote="Jabberwalker"]Those 280s were so feckin' beautiful when they were new. They were revolutionary design for a brief instant ... the first class of all-gas turbine powered warships. They were also designed and built JUST before the Arab oil crisis and they ended up being relatively ex... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Navy's East Coast flagship probably 'will never sail again,' |
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Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2015 3:32 pm
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| Actually both shipyards that won the contracts are fully updated and moving ahead with the projects. I'm referring to the Halifax and Esquimalt bases that both have shipyards of their own. I believe you're referring to the privately-owned shipyards that executed the upgrade project from 2008 or 200... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Navy's East Coast flagship probably 'will never sail again,' |
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Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2015 3:23 pm
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| Good news: I know where there's a spare engine for the destroyer! http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/cargo-container-yields-2m-surprise-1.821211?ref=rss Jesus, can we get any more pathetic ? Well, seeing how Pratt& Whitney stopped supporting this particular type of engine over 20 years a... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Navy's East Coast flagship probably 'will never sail again,' |
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Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2015 3:19 pm
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| We're surrounded by ONE country (Greenland and St. Pierre don't count) that's our main ally, completely different than Australia. That doesn't mean we shouldn't have a better Navy. FFS why not just order 2-3 outfitted destroyers from the USA and license the plans for our shipyards to build 5 or 6 m... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: High risk that new navy supply ships won't get built: docume |
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 9:35 am
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| What a load of crap. This so called reporter obviously cherry picked the one item in the risk matrix that looked sensational. Every project ever created will have lack of qualified labour on its risk matrix, because it is always a possibility. |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Canada's vast shipbuilding plan still at starting line |
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Posted: Tue May 05, 2015 3:18 pm
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Replies: 15
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| I have to laugh at people who think that after a twenty year sabbatical, the ship building industry in Canada would be building ships immediately after the NSPS program was announced. The entire industry was dead and had to be retooled. |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Oath of allegiance to Queen stays as requirement to obtain c |
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Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 12:35 pm
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BartSimpson BartSimpson: Public_Domain Public_Domain: Glad I was born here, because **** THE OATH! Then perhaps you need to depart for a country that isn't worried about oaths. I hear the weather is nice in Somalia this time of year.
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Canada's next-generation military smart gun unveiled |
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Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 4:51 pm
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| The fifty rounds is for a personal qualification shoot. There is plenty of ammunition. Bullshit story by the hacks at Huffpost. Hate to break it to you dude but this s actually not a new story. Back when I was in the 26th Field Regiment in the 90s (Did Naval and Army Reserves) this was already the ... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Canada's next-generation military smart gun unveiled |
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Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 12:35 pm
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| The fifty rounds is for a personal qualification shoot. There is plenty of ammunition. Bullshit story by the hacks at Huffpost. |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Argentina to be boosted with new class of naval warship from |
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Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 12:54 pm
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| . Frankly it brings to mind Canadian destroyers with a vaguely familiar silhouette. http://www.boatnerd.com/news/newsthumbsb/images-10-3/DDHFraser9-15-10-km.jpg Ahhh ... Fraser ... I knew you when you were young ... and strong ... Except that's not Fraser. Fraser had a lattice mast. |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Arctic warship order to be trimmed in shipbuilding plan |
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 2:18 pm
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bootlegga bootlegga: The National Shipbuilding Program should just be re-named the National BS program already.
Why? If you did some research, then you would see that the program is well underway. |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Slap in the face to be told new $5-billion Montreal bridge s |
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Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2014 7:50 am
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| THe bridges that span the St.Lawrence Seaway are owned 50/50 between feds and provincial gov'ts. So Ottawa will pay for a portion of the repairs, however I think Quebec and Mulcair can get stuffed if they think they should get a free bridge without tolls. |
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