OldSolduer
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Canadian River Class Destroyer Megathread
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Trolling the US
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That is gold…
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Can you imagine?
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Irving CEO is likely jacking off in the in the executive bathroom to the thought of landing a
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Trade them RCDs for F35s?
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Nah just the idea of the US replacing the Constellation class with River Class, and part of that agreement being US yards build a couple of ours for us.
Oldgateboatdriver
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It's highly knowledgeable people like Pete Hegseth and his ilks making the "MAGA" calls now: They'll go for the "super-duper" DDX destroyer/cruiser/battleship. Never mind that half of them will quickly get sunk by submarines in a shooting war because there aren't any "little escorts" around them to carry out ASW.
And, BTW, they couldn't go for the RCD as a replacement of the Constellation class any more than they could do it successfully with the Italian FREMM: They would have to Americanize it to death to accommodate their manning system, i.e. modify it to manage to stick 300+ humans in that hull originally developed for 200. It would cause the same chaos it did with the Italian design.
IMHO, the biggest mistake they made in their choice for the Constellation class was not picking an American design to start with - one that met all their DC requirements already and could be easily amenable to their accommodation standards: The Ingalls designed one based on the very successful USCG Legend class cutter.
And, BTW, they couldn't go for the RCD as a replacement of the Constellation class any more than they could do it successfully with the Italian FREMM: They would have to Americanize it to death to accommodate their manning system, i.e. modify it to manage to stick 300+ humans in that hull originally developed for 200. It would cause the same chaos it did with the Italian design.
IMHO, the biggest mistake they made in their choice for the Constellation class was not picking an American design to start with - one that met all their DC requirements already and could be easily amenable to their accommodation standards: The Ingalls designed one based on the very successful USCG Legend class cutter.
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No plans currently besides vague overtures towards "Small Surface Combatants", although we have no idea as to what this entails. It seems likely that the US will need some kind of interim frigate or corvette design given their fleet operational issues, although the political leadership of the US/USN might have also caught the unmanned platform brainrot and could be going all in on such things.
