Russia Mistral: France halts delivery indefinitely

Hey. It's the ultimate AOR. Helps get us ready for war with the Russians who ordered the things in the first place. C'mon, Harper. What a great way to piss off Putin!

Nice looking but it doesn't look like any AOR I've ever seen.


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Details, details!

Remember the mighty 3"50 on the foredeck of Protecteur before a big wave carried it away?

(Just kiddin' about the wave.)

Ah hell that is a perfect Multi-Purpose ship for Canada. Just think of all the Roles she could fill and do. Go For it Canada .

If you get two of them for $1.6 billion, they are actually a bargain. It will cost that much to build two Frigates in Canada.

Ouch!! Two frigate types in the USA cost Less. Agreed, 2 Mistral's for 1.6bn is a steal.

With Canadian kit adjustments the price will come in at about $4.6 billion. Each. Might as well go for one of these at that point:



And that's not the ship listing. That's the boys having some fun by doing a few donuts and burnouts.

As nice as it maybe, we don't have the manpower nor the need for these ships.

I'd rather spend $1.6 billion getting our DDHs started.

Give the USN your 1.6Bn and let us patrol and protect Canada , just an idea although.

With Canadian kit adjustments the price will come in at about $4.6 billion. Each. Might as well go for one of these at that point:



And that's not the ship listing. That's the boys having some fun by doing a few donuts and burnouts.


Holy shit! That manoeuvre must have messed up the galley in a big way!

DDH's

Not an acronym I'm familiar with

Destroyer/Destroyer Helicopter (as opposed to DDE Destroyer/Destroyer Escort)

It's a Canadian thing.

Several people on here served on DDEs (They were all on the West Coast in my memory). I was on one DDH (never on a DDE) ... the very first one HMCS St. Laurent, at the very end of her commission. She never made it into razor blades. She was being towed down to the breakers in Texas when a storm hit her off Cape Hatteras, she broke her back and went down. That's the thing about "first of class" ships. They're prototypes for the rest of them that come afterwards and not all of the engineering had been waked out yet about flying large helicopters off of a quarter deck originally meant to carry batteries of Limbo mortars and a 3"-70 twin gun turret. The RCN pioneered the concept and now every Frigate and Destroyer on the water follows the pattern laid on with St. Laurent at the beginning of the 60s.

Thought you might like this... not sure if you've seen this photo, since you joined later.

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...and THAT HMCS Annapolis was a WWII lend-lease four stacker destroyer form Uncle Sam's Used Destroyer Lot.

The one that was in our navy during MY lifetime was the DDH, also HMCS Annapolis, which was purpose-designed as a DDH helicopter carrier and not refitted to it like the St, Laurent, Saguenay, Assiniboine before her.

DDHs were ALL on the East coast and we never saw DDEs in Halifax.