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For those who can't see the video; The smaller corvettes look pretty sleek, there seems to have been a deliberate effort put into stealth shaping and potentially some requirements for cold water operations. It looks to feature a 57mm Bofors, 16 VLS cells of some description, likely 4-8 NSM...

The corvettes seem very far off, especially with a lot of the talk about them being domestically built with large percentages of Canadian equipment. With how many foreign orders are coming down the pipe seemingly for the Type 31, it seems doubtful that we'd be able to procure any before the...

Mostly because Norway is robbing UK Type 26's directly off the production line with basically no changes from what it looks like, so the UK will be in for some further hard times with their already busted Type 23 fleet.

Rainbow is a Trout and Grilse is a stage of Salmon lifecycle, so there was a convention at one point throughout the Cold War. I don't think anybody is going to ask to return to the horrible numerical designations of the past, nor does the "Tribal" connotations of the Oberon class seem to be a...

I would find the inevitable claims of "the RCN going woke" amusing when the same people are informed one of the founding two vessels of the Navy was named HMCS Rainbow, alongside a cold war submarine as well.

I would personally rather see the Kingston class names be reused on their own replacements in the future, and the submarines follow previous fish based naming conventions. I have my own biases obviously as well, but the RCN is dearly lacking another HMCS Rainbow in its fleet.

The RCN has specifically asked about land attack and anti-ship missile capability within the RFI itself, and the general trend within the Navy as of late has been to invest in these 'excess capabilities'. See the plans to purchase and operate Tomahawk from the River class in the future. VLS is...

If the boats had any practical life left in them, we'd be using it.

It certainly seems like the Germans have an advantage with a more advanced boat that is more NATO standard compliant out of the box however, the two proposed delivery schedules between the German and Korean offerings really do not paint the Germans in a positive light. TKMS is claiming they can...

The full report can be found here. If you read the report, it is not just "allowing water into the hydraulics", it is some pretty substantial debris and water that entered the landing gear. There was double the amount of allowable particulates and water levels inside the hydraulic fluid...

Both the German and Korean offerings are coming with LiB, alongside a wider trend across conventional western submarines to move towards that technology more generally. Japan has went all in on LiB on their conventional submarines, Italy is putting them into their U212 NFS class, the French...

The Koreans have put out the offer to bring Canadian sailors over to Korea to undertake training on their own submarines even before our boats are delivered, alongside setting up training facilities domestically in Canada. Sticking with existing NATO compatible training with the Germans would...

The Koreans haven't went as far as to offer to build the ships themselves domestically, primarily because the RCN has made it clear that it doesn't want full domestic production. The closest they have got to this is speaking about opening a facility to build/maintain the lithium batteries in...

A recent interview in CDR Magazine with a retired Korean Vice Admiral clears up this; The standard crew size of the KSS-III is 33 sailors, although the design has room to accommodate up to 50 if required. That seems to be the confusion, so KSS-III does not seemingly require that many sailors...

VAdm Topshee recently did an interview with CDR Magazine regarding the Continental Defence Corvette program and gave some interesting information about what he's looking for: It sounds like the program is undergoing serious feature creep, to the point we're talking about a Halifax class like...