Don't mess with the stationary budget!Is this the same RN that was at one point terribly perplexed over paperclip usage and the intellectual might of 2SL was brought to bear on the issue?
Don't mess with the stationary budget!Is this the same RN that was at one point terribly perplexed over paperclip usage and the intellectual might of 2SL was brought to bear on the issue?
The cumulative number of solid RAS (any variety) by jackstay since the noughties is surprisingly low.
It won't budge.Don't mess with the stationary budget!
Sure? I thought T-AKE's were double hulled and MARPOL
???Glad to have been of service
The current Commodore RFA, ironically!So corporate memory faded to say the least. If anyone still serving was on Corporate, I'd be very surprised.
I was replying to PhotEx and his 'buy American - as easy as popping down the car showroom' posts.
We could buy American, but we SHOULD seek a lot of US input into a vessel design we have effectively zero design skills in either specifying, or designing.
See the never ending fuster that is SSS - Hint MoD RN, its not a bloody cruise ship!
I've (relatively recently) done heavy jackstays for ammunition and food.
That's got to be a discriminator / USP in your next OJAR? Next FO Sea Training surely beckons? From one of our RFA?
It’s not hard, frankly.
park alongside, pass lines, make sure you’ve got enough hands to clear the dump.
Yes - and no. Aside from the parking when it's a bit bouncy or dark, I'd hazard a guess that the composition and number of loads, combined with storing routes is where it gets tricky. Particularly if you're in MHE territory. Clearing the dump with a palletron, breaking down the pallet and then chainganging its content below decks on a T23 is one thing. Doing it with bigger indivisible boxes - or ammo ULS over some hours is probably another that we haven't done often in a while.
Glad to hear it's back on the rise.
T23 4.5 replenishment is long, hard, sweaty work.
Be glad they deleted the proposed VLSW RAS arrangement. Heath and Robinson didn't even come close!
It's all about the volume (of stores) in the end. Can't image how shoving 18 rounds of 4.5 individually down the ammo chute could be any sort of challenge! The gun always jams after 22 rounds anyway - or was that just when VSEL were aboard?.
At least two UK companies might beg to differ.
No one can RAS VL magazines.
They RAS(A)'d.