It’s always important to give the maximum amout of training to any defence personal that can be provided, these days with the global threat of terrorism mounting (Hezbollah’s attack on the IDF/N’s Ellat class vessel not long ago proving my point here).

It’s good to have a live fire excercise where you can actually bang something up. We do it every now and then down here, if we don’t have a vessel spare (the last one was the former HMAS Swan), then we buy one from the vast USN stocks (like the Belknap class we sunk a couple of years ago) or we sink Drug ships like the Pong Su from North Korea (what a birthday present that was for me last year hehehehehe).

It’s also a way of testing both weapons intergration and human intergration of systems to see if there is any improvments needed on your training sylabus. Sure the target doesn’t act the same as one that would if it were manned but the training is valuable none the less. Good on Canada for keeping up the standards!

Like they say nothing like the real thing?:D