[Jabberwalker]

I thought that I had remembered the Huron going off the the Gulf. You had me convinced that I was going senile.

[Freakinoldguy]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

What a load of political crap. It's a gash along the hanger not a gash 10 feet below the waterline. If the dockyard can't fix that tear in a couple of weeks then they'd better reopen Yarrows because there are no more tradesmen left in H.M. Dockyard.

I've been in 3 collisions at sea and a grounding, with one of the collisions opening up a rather sizeable hole in the After Seamens Head. It was a nice feature being able to have a dump and watch the sunrise.

Other than a severely degraded watertight integrity rating the thought of decommissioning the ship never came up. Hell had they decommissioned all the west coast ships that had run aground or been in collisions we'd have been defending the west coast with YAG's.

The real reason they want this thing written off is because it's been an albatross around the neck of the Pacific Fleet Staff since it was upgraded with the command and control package. It was the wrong 280 to be upgraded and the Huron, which was in better shape should have been the one to get that upgrade. But money became an issue and the Huron is now a lump of steel on the bottom of the ocean while the Algonquin in a lump of steel on the surface and guess which one is costing the Gov't a ton of money.



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I never understood why they did that to the Huron. Did she get damaged, somehow, during the first Gulf War when she was deployed to the Persian Gulf? If so, I don't remember hearing about it.

Nope it was all a money thing. Algonquin had gone into refit first for her Command and Control package and ended up a year later needing even more money to fix the hull, fix the engines and fix just about pretty much everything else with her.

Consequently the decision was made to put the Huron in mothballs because there was no money left in the 280 upgrade budget to do her. So, she was mothballed, the Algonquin survived and the rest is as they say.......... History.

The luck of the draw and not which was the better platform I guess.

[Hyack]

With all the problems the Navy has been having, from trying to update our submarine forces, the surface fleet nearing the end of it's serviceable life, along with the need for new icebreakers and Ottawa having no money to throw at any of these problems I guess the Canadian Navy in 2020 could look like.....



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[Freakinoldguy]

Even Raeside knew there was a money problem

[Nuggie77]

[quote="Hyack"]With all the problems the Navy has been having, from trying to update our submarine forces, the surface fleet nearing the end of it's serviceable life, along with the need for new icebreakers and Ottawa having no money to throw at any of these problems I guess the Canadian Navy in 2020 could look like.....

Not sure why you think the fleet is nearing the end of it's service life, the CPF program is in the midst of a mid life refit. There is plpenty of money for the rebuild. Both east and west coast shipyards are moving forward with Federal Fleet Renewal program. Design contracts have been signed amd moving forward.

[saturn_656]

Nuggie77 Nuggie77:

Not sure why you think the fleet is nearing the end of it's service life, the CPF program is in the midst of a mid life refit. There is plpenty of money for the rebuild. Both east and west coast shipyards are moving forward with Federal Fleet Renewal program. Design contracts have been signed amd moving forward.

The patrol frigates are about the only thing that isn't knackered or obsolete.

The 280's and the AOR's should have been replaced ten (or more) years ago. The shit cans (sorry submarines) never should have been bought in the first place they are that bad. The MCDV's (even though they don't pack SFA for firepower I guess are still part of the "fleet") aren't suitable for the roles they are being asked to perform.

Yeah... but the frigates are still ok.