As you say, a massive shortage of skilled tradesmen. It is in all sectors and it isn’t only due to boom and bust cycles. Many of today’s young people are directed to college by well meaning parents. Unfortunately, many end up enrolled in dead end degree programs. There here needs to be an aggressive marketing campaign to convince both parents and youth that there are huge opportunities for skilled tradesmen (and this is applicable to women as well).
Here in NZ they are now starting to advertise for high school leavers to consider being tradies. The point that they make is that the kids get paid to learn and they don't end up with a student loan. More importantly the coin is good.
The DSCA release specifically mentioned SM-6 Block I and SM-2 Block IIIC
US statement of possibilities. Possible sale. Government sale.
Well yes, all DSCA releases are for "possible" sales, that is what they do and the wording they use, how many of these possible sales come to be true ? don't know of any that have not ? but that is getting into semantics
Just heard today Ontario will be promoting trades to junior and high school students as an option that actually provides well paying career opportunities. Sadly many helicopter parents will still insist on university where many will end up with BAs and minimal employment opportunities.
The only DSCA announcement I can think of off the top of my head we haven’t proceeded with, was SLAM-ER for Australia and that was an alternate solution we could have chosen, but ended up opting for JASSM obviously.Well yes, all DSCA releases are for "possible" sales, that is what they do and the wording they use, how many of these possible sales come to be true ? don't know of any that have not ? but that is getting into semantics
From an FMS/ITARS point of view will be interesting to see what Thales thinks they can be involved in ? The US have been traditionally protective of the French having any form of access to their IP and Tech, maybe France will play the broken heart card after the submarine cancelation ? They are always looking for a way into the US inner circle !
My guess is that anything to do with France will have very clear firewalls between them and any real involvement and access, just like what was put into place for the Attack programme.
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Not in Australia they aren't. Shut all but about 20 stores in about 2009, and those are clustered around major international gateways to catch the incoming US citizen market. Australians by and large prefer coffee over lukewarm drip filtered sugar loaded liquid flavoured with almost any flavour but coffee. And much prefer local places than stencil printed identical "outlets"Degree in media studies? I understand Starbuck's is hiring.
I find the discussion on the Mk48 and AN/BYG1 quite odd. The Attack (smaller than the Astute) was going to be fitted with both the US weapons fit and the AN/BYG1 fire control. The Oberon Class were modified to take the Mk48, the harpoon and a new fire control system (including a new … and very large gyro with the required bearing accuracy) and the weight tolerances on that class were more more constrained that the Astute.Another article discussing the pros and cons between Astute and Virginia. Although the concerns over modifying Astute for the preferred options of Mark 48 torpedoes and the US combat system are mentioned, there is no mention of the PWR2 replacement that will be required for Astute.
Astute Versus Virginia: Which Nuclear-Powered Sub Is the Best Fit for Australia?
Picking the right design for the Royal Australian Navy’s nuclear-powered submarines is extraordinarily complex and difficult choices will need to be made. There are two contenders, the Royal Navwww.realcleardefense.com
I doubt it. It would appear to add a lot of complexity to cut and shunt an SSBN design to do what already exists as an SSN design. Besides which, neither the Columbia or Dreadnought are currently in service. The announcements were pretty clear on the point the SSN we start to build will be ‘based on’ an existing in service design."..a particular barrow..."
I see what you did there
It might be left field (or just ludicrous and I'm sure you'll all let me know) but has it been asked/considered here about using the Columbia or Dreadnought classes? Obviously without the missile compartment. I assume, rightly or wrongly, that the huge increase in building costs between an attack sub and a boomer is the missile complement?
Pardon the ignorance but it's something I've been wanting to ask for a while. Just don't be too savage in the replies...
AFAIK its an aesthetic thing only. Carbon deposits shouldn't affect the performance of the array at all. Many radars are painted black and a key ingredient in black paint is carbon black, or carbon. The only issue would be something like sunlight heating. But thats not really an issue if its just a bit of carbon deposit, but could be if its painted completely back.
Just wondering to current ANZAC numbers on the water.
