| Tango01 | 21 Apr 2014 10:32 p.m. PST |
…being upgraded. "With more than half its ships and submarines being repaired, modernized or in a reduced state of readiness, the Royal Canadian Navy is acknowledging that it has hit the low point in availability of its vessels. Of a total of 33 main ships and submarines, 15 are being repaired or undergoing upgrades, while another four are at a lesser state of readiness as they conduct tests on recently installed and modernized systems. "This is our most challenging year but we have a plan to make sure we have ships available all the time," Commodore Brian Santarpia, director general, navy strategic readiness, said in an interview with the Citizen. "We're still quite confident we can fill all the tasks given to us."…"
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| Vosper | 22 Apr 2014 4:11 a.m. PST |
Our navy has usually always been in a somewhat bad way, sadly. I remember an old joke about the previous class of warships, told to me by an navy sparker, in regards to the (usually inoperative) state of the weaponry. He said the guns were like civil servants – they didn't work, and you couldn't fire them. Apparently, there used to be a case of beer on the line for the gun mechs if the things worked on range days. |
pzivh43  | 22 Apr 2014 8:21 a.m. PST |
Bean counters can always make delaying a repair availability sounn like a good idea. Until something like this happens. And then the Ops guys get the blame! |
| David Manley | 22 Apr 2014 8:44 a.m. PST |
Nice I a way to see that the Canadian civilian staff who are working hard to keep ships and submarines at sea get the same unfair  ty rap that they do in the UK :/ |
| Ron W DuBray | 22 Apr 2014 9:02 a.m. PST |
That is not to bad. I read somewhere the world average is about 20% ready for sea and 5% ready for war. I thought the numbers were a bit low but it seams 90% of most of the worlds warships life is spend at dock, The US spends billions every year trying to keep that to around 60%. |
| doug redshirt | 22 Apr 2014 11:12 a.m. PST |
And guess how good a navy is when they spend 90% of the time in port? |
| Ron W DuBray | 22 Apr 2014 2:37 p.m. PST |
Its not about now good a navy is its about how much money you can spend on trying to keep the crappy made warships working. None of them seem to be able to sail for more then 30 days without half of their systems needing to be repaired or replaced ether at sea or stopping at a port. It's like we all need to learn to build the systems that go into them better. |
| Lion in the Stars | 22 Apr 2014 6:59 p.m. PST |
2/3rds of the USN is either in Shipyard, or retraining after major work in the shipyard. |
| Skeptic | 22 Apr 2014 8:05 p.m. PST |
And this is in peacetime… |
equips his Israeli recon unit.
