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CCG colours look pretty sharp on AOPS.

I wouldn't look into this too deeply, it's politicians passing a hot potato back to the Navy. Nobody wants a split fleet of submarines, not the Navy, not the bidders and not any of the Government who has a lick of common sense left. The PM personally came out against this split fleet idea, so I...

I'd prefer if Davie actually got around to building something instead of offshoring everything, hoovering up more contracts and marketing themselves as a shipbuilding superpower lol.

Always surprises me how behind the news cycle a lot of legacy media figures really are, all of this info has been known by other sources in the open source community like Noah for sometime now.

That is true however, I think this concept is much more vulnerable than many other projects. - A Polar Class 2 "do it all" Arctic Mobile Base ship has never been done previously, leading to a lot of potential complications as PC2 requires a substantial amount of redundancy, strengthening, etc...

I would imagine a design such as this will have a robust self defence capability alongside a decent sensor suite, primarily due to as you mention the fact it will find itself alone most of the time. If you look at vaguely similar vessels to what is being proposed for AMB, you can see what I am...

None, the only Navy asset able to safely operate into ice is the AOPS and even that vessel isn’t capable of operating in the seasons you mention. It seems like they want a platform capable of going effectively anywhere in the Arctic whenever it is ultimately required. The only other vessel...

https://t.co/KVbCccAN4I Noah shared a very interesting post recently, I wasn’t entirely sure where it best fit so I am posting it here. Apparently the RCN is looking at procuring a pair of “Arctic Mobile Base” ships, which sound to be a true “Joint Support Ship” concept similarly in some...

If they didn't do it during the original conversion, I doubt they'll do it after the fact.

Yes and they are also buying multiple page spreads in relevant naval magazines as well recently, it seems they are becoming increasingly desperate to stop their leased gravy train from ending. Unless Davie plans to come down significantly on the ridiculous sale price they were floating...

https://breakingdefense.com/2026/04/europe-must-wean-off-addiction-to-us-military-swedish-defmin-says/ This language makes me wonder if GlobalEye is being focused on due to the fact the Gripen acquisition is being viewed as a dead end? Hopefully so.

This sort of thing is disingenuous on the part of Saab as this kind of data centre is effectively a baseline requirement for the Gripen to be adopted by the RCAF. Hard to "dangle" something that is inherently required within a bid in the first place.

Noah recently shared a conceptual graphic of the CDC, although as always take it with a grain of salt. It was said that this should only be taken as only representative and not an accurate showing of what the design might be. With that being said, it is interesting to see a fixed panel array...

Because capability is costly and speed/stealth are incredibly valuable. Something like Absalon is a slow vessel that is poorly optimized for many duties outside of being a strange, budget friendly hybrid vessel. There is a reason why they were effectively a one off and their kind never became...

That is a 40mm gun and not a 57mm gun, the same as has been retrofitted to Svalbard.