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Originally Posted by HOZ
Seriously, the article talked about Canada needing to stop relying on friends to transport our military to places that it is needed. A lack of big helicopters and ships hinders us in a big way. And if we cannot transport our guys to the north ourselves no one else will. On thing the military could use are those huge hover/landing crafts that the US marines use. In the disaster here in Japan 18 thousand marines kept 100's of thousands alive because they could transport 100's of tonnes of supplies to them directly even though roads and airports were non-existent.
That of course means the navy would need a craft to carry these. This craft would be the one carrying the helicopters, artillery, etc....
Dreaming I know....but why not.
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When Harper was running against Martin he really pushed hard for something very similar that would be able to carry helicopters and armored vehicles and troops, but would also have roll on roll off capability.
He also figured that ships like this could supply humanitarian supplies anywhere in the world.
Ships like this would also have to carry enough fuel and have enough legs to support a Canadian Task force of one destroyer and up to 5 frigates and their accompanying helicopters.
So unlike what your seeing about, which I think is a Tarawa class, Canada would need to have something bigger to be able to replenish fleets including fueling.
Or create a separate class of between 2 and 4 ships like the above, and 2 to 4 fleet oilers.
Now the interesting thought is that the american's are retiring the Tarawa class to replace them with the new America class, maybe the American's would be willing to sell us a couple instead of turning them into razor blades, because we don't have big enough ship yards to build that class of ships.