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KSSII inter-operability with the RCN - https://defence-industry.eu/hanwha-ocean-says-kss-iii-submarine-verified-communications-interoperability-with-royal-canadian-navy/ Hanwha Ocean says KSS-III submarine verified communications interoperability with Royal Canadian Navy On 18 May, the...

Interesting read. https://www.policymagazine.ca/beyond-capability-the-strategic-calculus-behind-canadas-submarine-procurement/ Beyond Capability: The Strategic Calculus Behind Canada’s Submarine Procurement

I was basing it off the 115m/yr

Ok, so 816m over 7yrs. That breaks down at about 115m/yr. That 115m is spread across the West Coast, the East Coast, the Great Lakes, the St Lawrence and finally the Arctic. Let’s see, that translates to be 10m/yr for the East Coast and 10m for the West Coast and 10m for the Great Lakes and 10m...

Sure hope that if we go with the SK subs that the US can’t bring out the cock block on us in getting them.

Interesting. Hopefully it’s not for a northern excursion.

Mine was the Yardmaster down in Windsor. My younger brother and I would walk over to visit him at work when we were like 11 and 9, we lived about 4-5 blocks from the yard. He would take us into the engines used to ‘shunt’ the freight cars back and forth in the yard to build up the trains going...

A grandfather worked for CP and I remember being a young kid riding on some cp passenger train from Windsor up to London in the late 70’s or 1980.

Was that VIA or was the CP/CN passenger trains?

Thanks for that more in depth explanation. Let's hope that we are able to execute on it going forward.

Doesn't matter if its the LPC, the CPC, the PC, the CP or the CBC, just put a freaking sock in it. :)

All fair points.

And then what? What are the 3 possible large contracts that could from this?

A possible better approach by our government might be to stop telegraphing what their next move(s) are. Stop saying publicly and loudly that we are looking to vastly reduce our def spend on US equipment. Just quietly go about our business doing just that. Why continue to kick sand in the US's...

I remember sitting at my desk back in 98/99/00 watching the LNG tankers enter Boston Harbour and every time I crossed my fingers that some small lobster boat didn't get in its way.