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Vigilance is just an early pitch at a time when nobody else is doing the same in a public facing matter, they are going to look incredibly silly if they end up not getting the contract after this herculean media campaign. There is countless designs worldwide that can more than fit with CMMC is...

Given the South Korean KSS-III seems the likely winner of the CPSP, I could very much see them setting up a munitions factory within Canada to produce their missiles. It would be a valuable enterprise for Canada and South Korea, with the former looking to bring production within its borders and...

As bad as Canadian shipbuilding gets, it could always be worse lol. DeWolf only took like 5 years.

With all respect to HI Sutton, his graphic does not reflect reality. From everything I have heard thus far, only the Hyunmoo 4-4 SLBM has been integrated into the submarine variant of the K-VLS.

The big issue for Canada getting a lot of the Korean heavy hitter systems aboard KSS-III is the Missile Technology Control Regime, given the fact we would have to be exported "monkey models" of cut down warheads/range in order to keep both nations within compliance. Personally I don't...

L3 is the primary contractor there, so between them smoke screening Israeli involvement and the big boon to Bombardier regarding domestic production, I can't see it being an issue. Canada already purchased Israeli radars and recently Spike ATGM's, so I don't think Israeli pushes it off the...

I don't think that part of the sales pitch was the issue, the USN seemed fairly clear that they were always going to make a bunch of modifications to whatever design was chosen. Journalists and politicians misunderstood that as an "off the shelf" purchase and when they didn't see what they...

I am continually baffled by the talking points pushed by journalists and armchair admirals that the Constellation program is some kind of failure due to a bunch of different issues, I think I spoke about this sometime last year but they keep harping on the same points. As much as I find it...

Personally I think Morrison and many others there are full of crap with their assertions that Canada isn't spending enough to be a valuable contributor to AUKUS Pillar II/we have nothing to offer, we have a variety of private and govt programs throughout the spectrums AUKUS Pillar II is looking...

It would be a really baffling decision to swap MT30 out for LM2500, given that the former is already integrated into the design while the ladder would need to be swapped in and require however many design changes to get done. If this is such a no brainer, why wasn't it done? I have not heard...

MT30, as with the entire propulsion system aboard the Type 26 design, is mounted within an acoustic enclosure to limit noise signature while under operation. MT30 is being used aboard the QE class carriers, the Italian LHD Trieste, Zumwalt, LCS, Mogami class and the Daegu class.

The River class has been using the MT30 from the very beginning, as that is the turbine that the baseline Type 26 frigate utilizes. It doesn't make much sense to swap out a more powerful and seemingly simpler engine for a worse counterpart. MT30 is becoming more and more commonplace on modern...

16 Multi-Purpose Vessels 1 Polar Icebreaker 1 Offshore Oceanographic Science Vessel 3 Offshore fisheries science vessels The OOSV has a PC-6 rating, while the the OFSC is rated to PC-7. "Ice strengthened" would be more accurate, but it doesn't have the media punch lol.

I think the Orca replacement is definitely a relatively easy procurement if we can keep scope creep and peoples fingers out of it, make the required improvements from the feedback/issues found with the Orca's and produce an effective design.

I've heard that the Orca fleets is absolutely beat as with much of the existing fleet, although even more so given the abuse put upon them by constant trainee operations.