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Also if interest OTHR has issues when the ionosphere is disturbed. Which means aurora borealis will cause problems in the Arctic for it. They can probably deal with this to an extent as software will be developed to adjust. @Good2Golf thoughts on this?

I'm all for some chauvinistic nationalism smugness on a minor win here. We were going to get it anyways, and if the US is shuffling it's feet being first to the production line is a great place to be.

How am I supposed to check if we're clear to port or stbd when altering without running outside. Or person overboard, or confirm boat launch safety. I guess I'll have to use the cameras for that now. Curse you technology answers! My main happiness with this is that the bridge is now...

https://breakingdefense.com/2025/03/australia-canada-announce-4b-over-horizon-radar-agreement/ Some interesting news. Canada already developed the "dark ship" detection satellite that Australia uses in this sytem. Middle powers unite, form of arctic radar!

I was hoping you in particular saw this thread. I laid out a trail of red crayons for you to follow...

Probably FFL. Its a much broader category. However if SM-6 missiles are going to be standard then FFLG is probably appropriate. G: A unit equipped with one or more force guided missile systems. These include surface-to-surface (SSM) surface-to-air (SAM), underwater-to-surface (USM) and...

So many more than that as well if you go back to WW2 names. If there isn't a Niagara though I'll riot!

This comes up a lot. How are ships classified. So I have cracked the code (sort of) and present to everyone STANAG 1166 MAROPS. Its NATO's ship designation/classification system. So destroyer vs frigate. You can see here that ship tonnage does not matter. Oddly enough length matters...

I think they are going to have the UK build those for them on the UK T26 standard. They don't need air warfare ships as they have those already. I also don't see where we would fit them into our build schedule.

For the sharp end that seems like a good enough napkin sketch. The logistics requirements are probably a who different ball game.

Fair enough, what I read was that it's basically the same gun module mounted on a different vehicle. So it was categorized under RCH 155.

That jetty would need some TLC but yah it's an option.

Given my reading of the RFI... 80km hr road speed, max range 450km. This automatically disqualifies tracked SPGs. Of the non tracked versions the best is arguably the RCH 155 which takes the turret of the Panzerhabuite 2000 and puts it either on a Boxer or a Piranha 10x10. It can fire while...

Eh, CAESAR could be modified a bit to meet that requirement I'm sure. Link? Just curious as to what we're looking at here. Korea almost immediately offered the K9 to us as soon as the RFI came out, my main concern with all these wheeled variants is that they only build like 15 a year total...

Maybe they did! Lol. There's a lot of new tonnage and all of it is bigger than the old tonnage. Consider CSC is 20m longer than the frigates, AOPS are much bigger than MCDV's, JSS same size as older AOR's (more or less), and then add an additional 4 more submarines (on top of the two that...

Its the firm requirement because with the new subs, JSS, AOPS and CSC there isn't any space to put everyone in Halifax Dockyard if the ships are longer than 105m.

So what I'm thinking is that if the ship doesn't have a flight deck for helicopters (and probably only has a UAV deck) then you can use the space normally reserved for a hangar for a full strike lenght Mk 41 launcher, goes all the way to where the hangar top would be and launches from there. If...

Yah there are a bunch of CMC stats out there that don't line up. 40 pers, strike length VLS, 1000 tons, 105m long, proper warship with self defence capability... Some of these circles do not overlap with each other very well or at all. But eventually things will line up and we'll get...

If they award a contract this year... 2030.

They do not. Most recent information was that they were going to do the build one for Germany, one for Norway and one for Canada drumbeat. And the Canadian one would be a different hull because of the range requirements.