Deploy a Company minus, by two Landing craft from hull side gantries and a company plus from quay wall with relevant vehicles to accompany. Do all of the rest, including Flagship duties. The rig for refueling at sea and associated training is substantial. Of course it can be done , initially with our own vessels, and then on a controlled trial . The New Zealand Navy don't see Canterbury being used outside of urgent humanitarian incidents, police actions, Piracy control, and normal Fleet support. We also need to consider and add the capability to conduct sea bed searches , deploy ROV types, and recover items as required in a recent helicopter accident. The Navy is the best agency as it is always 24/7.
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Originally posted by DeV View PostXO131L can carry a Coy Group (personnel and kit), much smaller crew required and not too big
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Originally posted by DeV View PostAnd the crew of 3 current vessels
Have Irish sailors got one fewer hands than British sailors?
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Undoubtedly - which is why clever people split the crewing requirements into two parts - the people needed to run the ship and do the RASing etc... and the people that can come from other services or countries that can do the add-ons: there being no operational reason why you couldn't have an Irish NS crew running the AOR with an embarked security force from the Irish Army, a Swedish field hospital running the, err.. hospital, and a German Navy helicopter and crew and tech detachment doing the flying.
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Originally posted by A/TEL View PostP61 live on AIS (Marine Traffic) coming thru the English Channel, exceeding her designed top speed of 23 Knts......
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Current progress on P64, George Bernard Shaw.
Last edited by na grohmiti; 18 October 2017, 18:07.For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.
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Things keep going the way they are down there and pretty soon they won't have enough to crew the ships they have let alone new ones!!Last edited by apod; 24 February 2018, 13:42."Let us be clear about three facts. First, all battles and all wars are won in the end by the infantryman. Secondly, the infantryman always bears the brunt. His casualties are heavier, he suffers greater extremes of discomfort and fatigue than the other arms. Thirdly, the art of the infantryman is less stereotyped and far harder to acquire in modern war than that of any other arm." ------- Field Marshall Wavell, April 1945.
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