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To: DesertRhino
Canada’s Navy is bigger than the Royal Navy.

If by bigger, you mean "half the size", you are correct.

The bigger problem Canada's navy has is major Obsolescence , continual studies for replacements that never get built. The average age of major surface combatants is 23 years. None are younger than 17. They fly (when they can-reliability isn't great) the oldest SeaKings in the world, more than 40 years old,

31 posted on 02/16/2013 11:59:55 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (I think, therefore I am what I yam, and that's all I yam - "Popeye" Descartes)
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To: Oztrich Boy

“If by bigger, you mean “half the size”, you are correct. “

I think he meant “negative one/half bigger.”


37 posted on 02/17/2013 1:52:57 AM PST by Born to Conserve
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