Recent content by Navy_Pete

The same Naval Group that Australia agreed to pay out an final $550 odd million for canceling the contract, that also resulted in the US and UK apologizing to France for creating a diplomatic incident over? You might be better off asking Naval group about working with the previous Aussie...

With a PA announcement about how they've been relieved of their position and sent somewhere to think about it.

Doubled from an exceptionally low rate, and mortgage rates have been kept suppressed internationally for a long time to keep artificial growth in housing bubbles flowing and feed the stock market. 5-6% is painful compared to 2-3%, but still within the envelope of the conservative stress test...

France does a great job building ships that other people actually want to buy. Also having an assembly drydock with a retractable roof is a real beauty. They do a great job, really weird we don't work with them more closely. They have a slightly different crewing concept, but would be easier to...

Yikes, that's an awkward reality. I think a lot of things get blamed on the feds where it's really just global events. Inflation is up around the world, housing and cost of living is a problem everywhere, and things are tough all over. The solution for some of these would actually be closer to...

@Halifax Tar, not discounting your experience, but even 4 people per ship, with 8-10 CPFs up and running is 32-40 people that don't actually exist in other trades. I think the full remar is still 7 or 8, so really up to 60-70 positions in the fleet. That's the equivalent of an entire AOPs crew...

Is that a new legal team, the ones that quit because he didn't pay them, or the ones with their licences suspended for making such spurious claims about the election process and defendent in multi-billion dollar lawsuits? That's just an insane claim, and a lot of other previous reports had...

What restrictive policies are they talking about that is preventing people from getting into houses that is specific to the LPC? Our requirements for qualifying for a mortgage and the stress test are stricter than in the US, but if you look at how devastating that was when there was even a...

I think it's use in technical standards is generally caveated by the assumption that the people involved in that assessment have the necessary expertise, and not random people on the street. You can always call up standards with additional restrictions on acceptable criteria, but that's where...

And how do you expect the meal lines to work? There are only about 16 seats in the weirdroom with 40+ officers to cycle through. You still need someone to do the serving/scullery function to get folks through and the ships are designed to have all 3 messes in full operation as meal lines to get...

The RCN isn't getting rid of the steward job requirements; they are just getting rid of the people that are doing the job now and then saying that magically it will get figured out who does it. At the moment, they help feed the crew, are a big part of casualty clearing, and part of pretty much...

So instead of having a generalist trade doing a bunch of different necessary taskings, hire a bunch of specialists and get them to do lower level tasks compared to what they are trained for? You don't need a fully trained cook to do juniour steward jobs, you don't need FSAs to manage NPF and the...

Well, for sure, but I think gives a bit of insight into how difficult building subs are if German engineers are struggling. I would just be happy if we didn't end up with another batch of one offs no one else in the world is using that do the job safely.

Would be a bit strange history wise, but German has some subs meant for export, and I think has things like AIP or fuel cell technology. The nice thing generally there would be a standard model, used by a number of other countries is a larger user base to work with on things and hopefully makes...

Plot twist; the yard is on a landlocked body of water, so can also subsidize heavy transport and fit in one or more assembly yards! All KICs, all the time! #IRBsforall #SewerTubeConvoy2060 #PorkBarrelingisThinkingSmall