Recent content by Rainbow1910

I don't believe for a minute that it costs only $7,000 per flight hour for a Gripen E, especially given Saab is notorious for not releasing much information and "flight hours" can be easily modified to make them as flattering as one wants.

Given how much the corvettes has basically ballooned into a bespoke, all Canadian PC6 rated miniature Halifax class frigate, either the River class is going to see its production numbers cut or these corvettes will be purchased in very small numbers (4-6).

Hell Canada did this ourselves to a pair of Chilean submarines just prior to the outbreak of WWI, effectively "stealing" them from a US shipyard and purchasing them via cheque outside American waters.

Regarding this, I think the following images are from CANSEC 2025 and showcase the size of the bunks on various Korean designs of the KSS line, while also showing some of the amenities like HVAC and entertainment systems in each bunk. The vessels look pretty comfortable, I would be nice to see...

I do not think Canada should be or is especially interested in a lot of the other South Korean offerings pitched here however, the submarine deal itself seems very good and only gets better seemingly by the day.

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...