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Posted on 10/28/2011 7:42:27 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Is that the ones now at Edmonton mall or are these the only ones left "serviceable"?
Might be a good idea, except they’ll never be able to go to Vancouver if they do. Vancouver is a “nuclear-free zone”. Says so on signs at the city limits. No ship carrying nuclear material or powered by nukes is allowed in the city.
Vancouver: Beautiful city, populated by morons.
Ping.
Does that include Esquimault BC where the base is?
I think it’s just Vancouver proper. However, all the anti-nuke enviro-peace-nuts will certainly squeal that “It’s too close!” or some idiotic statement like that.
Having proved they lack the industrial and technical skills to keep a diesel electric submarine operating for any length of time I don’t see how jumping to nuclear power is going to somehow fix that problem.
Well, the subs were British: Lucas Electrics was probably involved somehow.
Canada depends on being under the U.S. Nuclear Umbrella..
Thats, Why they spend so little (of their economy) on the military..
Most all of Canada’s expenditures are to keep their socialism going..
Truth is Canada does not need submarines at all..
A very small Navy, Air Force, and Army is for propaganda purposes..
Like a Cat puffing up.. to seem bigger.
Thank you for the ping, Army Air Corps.
This story ran on CBC The National last night.
Seems that they have spent more that $3B maintaining
these to date. I guess they didn’t realize how expensive
keeping these boats really is. The reason for having them
is to assert sovreignity over the the Far North. They know that our boomer can hide out up there and they don’t like it and would like to be able to chase US subs out of there. Of course, theres no chance to do that without having nuke boats.
That was also the reason for purchase of F-35 fleet. The small problem is that F-35 can not communicate in the far north,nor have needed operation radius for such task. But hey, what's $100B from my or your pocket for idiots in charge. Especially if they get kickbacks for merchandise no one else wants to buy.
It seems Canadian government has a pattern of spending billions on useless military hardware and spending billions to murder innocent civilians around the world. At the same time Search and rescue from Canadian waters is one of the worst in developed world, Canadian waters are not controlled and Canadian skies not defended.
Snowmobiles......that’s the answer......snowmobiles.....as long as you keep the track turning fast, they’ll go over water. Strap a nuke to it and you have the perfect weapon. Lots of fun on the snow, too.
so best mind the line when you’re out there fishing on Lake Huron, eh?
I suggest you research all the fighter intercepts Canada has conducted in the past 60 years.
I beg to differ on that point.
“However, all the anti-nuke enviro-peace-nuts will certainly squeal that “It’s too close!” or some idiotic statement like that.”
Then they need their heads cracked. I’m sure the RCMP is up to the task. :)
I see there are many still posting on FR that think they have all of the facts on Canada. Jokers.
Van Francisco.
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