Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:
The Concorde was partly given to you by us with the Canadian engineering team that migrated to Britain after the Avro Arrow was cancelled.
http://www.avroarrow.org/AvroArrow/Avroengineers.htmlWhoopee-do. Half a dozen Canadians finding employment in the construction of a British-conceived and invented plane designed by Sir James Hamilton.
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Just for fun, watch footage of Concorde taking off and then watch the Arrow doing same. They are both identical, but quite distinctive from most other aircraft like them. There are more Arrow genes in Concorde than you might realize.
You do realise that Avro was a British aircraft manufacturer, don't you? And that it was the parent company of Avro Canada, which built the Avro Arrow?
And, of course, the Avro Arrow wouldn't have been possible had Britain not invented the jet engine in the first place.
And, as we all know, Britain also invented the fighter plane - the RAF's Vickers F.B.5 was the very first one.
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Anyway, about those delicate garage queens that the Brits refer to as "luxury cars". I've been in the North in various places and what you will NEVER see up there are Land Rovers, Range Rovers or the rest of the poseur line. They're just not up to a truly hostile environment ... overpriced cream puffs. The ads show them in the Wild of Africa but they were actually designed for the rough, tough country lanes of Surrey.
The Land Rover is the best 4X4 ever made in the history of the world - and the most successful.
The Land Rover Discovery first went on-sale in 1989 and has received over 150 awards from all over the world. The Discovery 4 has won awards including, in the UK, 4x4 Magazine's Car of the Year and the Scottish Car of the Year, internationally, the Best 4x4 for Spain's Car and Driver, Best Annual SUV for Autocar in China and All-Round SUV of the Year for Bloomberg's USA.
What you will NOT see almost anywhere in the world outside of Canada is any Canadian car. The world just doesn't seem anywhere near as interesting in Canadian cars as it is in British cars. Most non-Canadians would struggle to name a Canadian car.
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BTW That is a U-Boat ... Unterzee Boot. Even you must have heard of them.
I don't see how the Oberon-class is linked in anyway to the U-boats. The Oberon-class is based on Britain's hugely-successful Porpoise-class.
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I like this little blurb about the O Boat:
Canada The three Canadian submarines were built with improved air-conditioning systems, while as many common components as possible were replaced with Canadian equivalents.[2] The Canadian Oberons used United States Navy torpedoes throughout their career: they were initially equipped with Mark 37 torpedo, but were later upgraded for Mark 48 torpedoes.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon-class_submarineI guess, that is so they would start when it was below 32 Deg. Fahrenheit!
It comes as no surprise that a Canadian submarine was outfitted with Canadian equipment.
It also comes as no surprise that the Canucks went for the American Mark 48 torpedo, seeing as they are now incapable of designing and building their own military equipment.
And the purchase of Mark 48 torpedos, rather than using British ones, has left the Canadian Navy with a huge problem and highlights once again Canadian incompetence with its military.
Canada's stock of second-hand submarines – already beleaguered with repairs and upgrades — is incapable of firing the MK-48 torpedoes they currently own.
When Canada purchased its current fleet of four submarines from Britain in 1998, they were fitted for British torpedoes. At the time, Canada was heavily invested with the modern MK-48 torpedo system and did not want to abandon it.
Like any shopper trying to justify a second-hand purchase in the face of an obstacle, they figured it was still a good deal. They “Canadianized” the submarines, but, 13 year later, they still haven’t got around to the “weaponization” part.
“The Canadian Forces has always intended for the Victoria Class submarines to carry and fire the Mark 48 torpedo,” wrote Denise LaViolette, the director of navy public affairs, in an email. “Initial weapons certification will be progressed early in 2012 in HMCS Victoria for Pacific operations followed that year by HMCS Windsor for Atlantic operations.”
In late March, Canadians discovered their government has been cross-border window shopping for 36 “Torpedo Conversion Kits” when the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency issued a release. These kits come with spare parts and logistical support to upgrade the current stock of MK-48 torpedoes from Mod 4 to Mod 7. The estimated cost is $125 million, but the sale hasn’t been completed yet.
The Mod 7 torpedo, developed by the U.S. Navy and the Royal Australian Navy in 2006, is optimal in deep water and has advanced “counter-countermeasure capabilities,” according to the U.S. Navy. The Canadian navy already has some in stock but is hoping to upgrade all those dusty Mod 4 torpedoes they’ve unable to fire because of an engineering issue.
“We are re-using major portions of our existing weapons to create an inventory of newer, more capable and more cheaply maintained weapons,” wrote LaViolette.
The HMCS Corner Brook is the only submarine that is currently operational, and is lurking somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. On its maiden voyage, the HMCS Chicoutimi caught fire when power cables immersed in seawater sparked a deadly fire. One sailor died. The other submarines are undergoing refits.
At the time of the 1998 purchase, the submarines were the best non-nuclear technology available, said Roger Sarty, a naval historian at Wilfrid Laurier University.
“Within the limits on our defence budget there isn’t the possibility of keeping all of them operational all the time,” he said. “My guess is the navy would probably like to have one operational on each coast.”
The Royal Navy, on the other hand, turned down the Mark 48 and went for its very own designed and built Spearfish torpedo, which are arguably superior to the Mark 48. So the RN submarines are, unlike Canadian ones, actually able to fire their torpedoes.
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You have provided no evidence of this other than a cut and paste propaganda blurb from the paper. You aren't that smart so the evidence you provide must be validated by something else other than Wiki.
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