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Some my books are packed up due to a Reno; I think in “Through a Canadian Periscope” it mentions Vickers in Quebec built a bunch for export.

Totally agree, we cannot be restrained by USA ITAR. Did you want to throw in a couple of Naval Strike Missiles? Merlin makes sense as then we have some commonality.

True. At least Seaspan had some experience building the Orcas and some large yachts. By bringing in the Koreans they probably shaved many years off the development curve. I expect that is why Davies owners bought Aker Finland and have hired Pearlson & Pearlson. Thank you for the article...

I think that may have been for the Polar 2 icebreaker when priorities for Seaspan were being shifted by the government for the 2nd or 3rd time and Davie was trying to get in on the action. Agreed , it would require moving modules halfway around the world; makes little sense. I suspect that...

You need to add insurance at $3000/year (or more). 😊

other than building a motorized barge, Heddle has little to no ship building experience. As their website says, “…core business is ship repair and maintenance “. There is a huge difference between performing ship maintenance and building ships. I’ve performed repairs to my cars but it doesn’t...

Thank you for sharing these spectacular pictures. Especially HMCS Qu’Appelle (264, bow submerged and stern exposed ) & the Iroquois class (bow exposed and stern seemingly submerged).

What were the poor soles doing in the RHIB in the 3rd frame?

As a taxpayer , I’m not getting the warm and fuzzies about ISI.

All Freedom class are in the water and work is under way for the variant (4 ships) for the Saudi. Interesting Naval News video with LM VP talking about Mk70 on both Freedom and Independence class. . Not sure why we would ever want a Freedom class given they have poor availability, poor range...

I know it’s not April Fools yet, but you’re kidding right? They just got onto NSS to do icebreakers. I guess the icebreakers scheduled after Arpatuuq class will slip. I would rather see Davie get the contract than Heddle/Ontario. One has built ships and the other has only ever built a small...

So many different UAV’s were mentioned. Every class of ship is getting a different vehicle. Near the 22 minute mark where he speaks about Multi-mission Corvette and of note; paying off last of Kingston class in 2029.

Yes.I’m am assuming same upon my vague recollection of a Lockheed advert from about 6 years ago that illustrated such. I believe Raytheon was claiming similar for Spy-6.

I’m shocked by the construction timeline. Thank you for the history lesson.

Guessing a few weeks after the painting was created the ships were being stripped for construction materials. Back in those times, ships were likely constructed in months so it wouldn’t take long to ramp up. Unlike the present, where it can take decades (ie. JSS).

No, it is one of many such as power, location, cycles, technology (gallium nitridesj . But if in this case I assume identical modules are used ,I would expect resolution to change and/or number of tracks.

General Dynamics CEO Phebe Novakovic said that Electric Boat has been "severely impacted by late deliveries from major component suppliers," pushing back schedules and driving up costs. https://maritime-executive.com/article/electric-boat-slows-down-sub-production-because-of-delayed-parts

The pessimist in me says I wouldn’t read too much into what a Lockheed manager says. It would be presumptuous to expect Canada’s variant (v)3 is as capable as Spains (v)2 since ours has the smallest arrays. Lockheeds literature gives some clues: Japan:…the persistent missile defense system...

ExLS has only been tested with CAMM, never with RAM. There hasn’t been a customer for ExLS and my uneducated guess is that we are going with established equipment for the first 3 hulls.

Are the soundings on the chart fathoms or meters?