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I wonder if that team included Robert Ballard (of Titanic Fame) who was in the US Naval Reserve at the time, and worked on a number of special...

Bit of an underselling there, Ben Roberts Smith in under investigation for being involved in 7 unlawful executions some of which were reported by...

A US Navy team deployed a type of sonar, on P31, with stern A-Frame, and Flight deck mounted winch to map the debris field of the Air India plane. It...

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2020/08/french-navy-starts-trials-of-variable-depth-sonar-aboard-loire-class-offshore-support-vessel/

The Russians might have some containerised systems for us???? ...

I appreciate what you say, but it's fair to say that most of the AAS graduates are now happily earning the civvy salary and wouldn't be inclined to...

There is probably some truth and some story in your description of the AAS. I was both a school officer , training officer, and was never aware of...

The pay for those on TTS is probably also at least double that of a DF apprentice

The Problem with the Army apprentice school was multi-faceted. Firstly you recruited child soldiers, most without leaving certs. Then you put them...

The zone is defined by two line, Alpha and Beta; these are the lines defining the zone of separation which was part of the ceasefire agreement. In...

yup, would have to be diesel hybrid

The fault has to lie with the pundits in DOD and those that have acquiesced with recruitment strategy for technical apprentices in particular. The...

Are the Israeli Border Outposts within the UNDOF AO? Genuine question, because the UNDOF AO is quite thin in parts, and the Southern area in...

The UNDOF AO entends the entire length of the border between Syria and Israel.

Was it in UNDOF AO?

There is a requirement to maintain a common fuel source for deployed assets

It never reflects good on the UN when stuff like this happens. ...

PHEV for deployments could be interesting; get a few PHEV Land Cruisers and do some trials. Then send them along with some solar cells and a wind...

Entertaining as are the comments but nothing really new. Yes the Yanks do have some aircraft in storage and there is a good reason for this, they...

That was ... entertaining

I don't like the dismissal of the stonework in the graving dock. It served a purpose. The document also seems to be unaware of the function of a...

There is a Request for tender issued by the Department of Defence, to dredge basin West plus West wall area of silt( Contaminated ), to fit out west...

Any plans I saw had new berthage outside the basin to the north where water is deep. The quay at the basin entrance was also in the plan as a short...

https://youtu.be/srMoZhn4kzI Some offbeat suggestions here.

Why is the assumption that any new berthage is within the basis? If the NS does ever get an EPV/MRV it could be much large than any current vessel.

Just answering a question. Engineering wise not many companies are into specialised dredging. It would be better to have that done first and then...

Could well be gone Which is probably why it’s says it should be removed In fairness in the basin there is only so many places to go

Not sure how much of the graving dock was dredged. It would have had a large quantity of steel here as this was where finished product was loaded to...

I thought the Basin had already had a full dredging only a couple of years ago to remove the slit and debris from Steel? As to the visual impact,...

Costings were done on this some years ago and it was not at all costly. Biggest problem is the Visual intrusion such a structure would bring, and the...

The floating docks are gone many years. Reading the request for Tender to increase berthage at the naval base seems to have so many unquantifiable...

It started sinking sometime round 2010, was scrapped soon after. Was in frequent use for maintenance of the CPVs but couldn't manage anything much...