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New navy supply ships tied up at political pier


Military | 206785 hits | Sep 22 2:13 pm | Posted by: Hyack
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OTTAWA - The redesign of the navy's new generation of supply ships is completed, but it will still be next year before the Conservative government is ready to talk to industry about building them.

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  1. by avatar saturn_656
    Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:36 pm
    Testifying before the Senate defence committee last spring, the assistant deputy minister of materiel said that a request for proposals for three new joint support ships likely won't be issued until next year, and it will take another five to six years before the first one is delivered to the fleet.


    My gut reaction to this is... totally unacceptable.

  2. by avatar bootlegga
    Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:48 pm
    Someone needs to light a fire under MacKay's ass on this. The longer it takes to get this finalized and construction started is how long we'll be without a vital capability.

    This project is now over a decade old and it's getting to be a big joke, just like the MHP.

  3. by avatar saturn_656
    Tue Sep 22, 2009 10:25 pm
    At this point the only way to get new ships quickly is buy an existing design from someone else, and if we really wanted them fast, get them to build it too.

  4. by avatar Arctic_Menace
    Wed Sep 23, 2009 12:23 am
    It's stupid that Canada's military has to be bogged down in this kind of bureaucracy... >_<

  5. by avatar saturn_656
    Wed Sep 23, 2009 12:27 am
    "Arctic_Menace" said
    It's stupid that Canada's military has to be bogged down in this kind of bureaucracy... >_<


    The inefficent bureaucracy, a staple of Canadian democracy.

  6. by avatar OldChum
    Wed Sep 23, 2009 1:48 am
    Yes without it the pencil pushers would have nothing to do.

  7. by avatar saturn_656
    Wed Sep 23, 2009 1:56 am
    The bureaucracy expands to support the needs of the expanding bureaucracy. :lol:

  8. by avatar OldChum
    Wed Sep 23, 2009 2:11 am
    When is a Canadian Goverment going to take the forces seriously for a change.

  9. by avatar saturn_656
    Wed Sep 23, 2009 2:12 am
    "OldChum" said
    When is a Canadian Goverment going to take the forces seriously for a change.


    You won't live to see it.

  10. by avatar OldChum
    Wed Sep 23, 2009 2:21 am
    Sad to say neither might they.the man and women of the forces.

  11. by avatar Benn
    Wed Sep 23, 2009 3:13 am
    Or we could buy used ones. Maybe the Brits are selling some for $5 like those great sub replacements!



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