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I have been saying for quite sometime that the Saab bid for the CPSP was never especially serious given the multitude of issues they've been having getting two far smaller variants designed, built and in service. Maybe this will finally get people to stop pushing them for Canada, although not...

The Multi-Purpose Vessels are fairly urgent procurements, given they are required to replace the ancient Type 1100 class vessels which all hail from the mid 1980's. Given their roles are primarily icebreaking, search & rescue and the direct upkeep of our maritime shipping networks, it would be...

I was under the impression that a great deal of the design work that the RCN/CCG does is contracted out to professional international firms like Vard, due to the fact that Canadian domestic yards/Canadian govt organizations do not have in house designers anymore? The RCN really does need some...

As surprising as it might be, it is not uncommon for warship designs to have their physical construction begin before the design as a whole is entirely finalized. Especially if this is to do with the upper works that can be built later on and in modules to be added to the hull, these don't need...

Given the fact that the RCAF had 138 CF-18's and we've still ran into availability issues which required us to purchase nearly 20 additional airframes/aircraft, I do not think the 88 airframe figure is sufficient and you can likely guess where my opinion lies as to the original 65 figure. Canada...

I'm not some Irving shill but hot damn, I don't think I've seen such a spiteful and poorly reasoned article in sometime.

Realistically, I do not see any other option for the RCAF besides continuing along with the F-35A buy at this time. We have been paying into this program for quite sometime, having made our interest very clear and have even secured valuable domestic production contracts for the aircraft...

Following the themes of prominent river systems from across Canada while also sticking to perpetuating battle honours as the RCN likes to do, basically take any of the various sub-classes of Cold War steamers and you've got your likely candidates. Caveats to this, Ottawa might not make the cut...

Norway has no air warfare vessels within their fleet, Fridtjof Nansen might have SPY-1F and AEGIS but it is limited to only ESSM from it's 8 VLS cells. Whatever will be procured by their Navy will replace the aforementioned class of ASW combatants, and Norway has expressed similar requests as to...

It was mentioned by somebody in the know on the program a few months ago. It was specifically mentioned as a role.

The French have their own SSN, SSBN and now the Dutch SSK programs to all fulfill, alongside all of the other foreign submarine programs they are courting at the moment. I find it very hard to believe that they could take on our 12 boat order and still be able to make good on our timeline, not...

I was under the impression that the NSS rules were set out in a way that non-NSS yards get vessels of 1,000t or less, while anything over that limit MUST go to one of the three NSS yards? As far as combatants go, I was also under the assumption that only Irving was permitted to build...

The CCG also has the Mid-Shore Multi-Mission Vessel which will provide 6 vessels for these various duties that the larger Multi-Purpose Vessels might struggle in the littorals. These ships are under 1,000t and will be built by a non-NSS yard. The Mid-Shore Multi-Mission Vessel project seeks 6...

I think it is a bit of a stretch to say Portugal "canceled their F-35 purchase" when they never formally ordered the F-35, nor is there even any funding provisions to purchase them over the 10 year military funding law they passed in 2023 lol. When a European country with an actual formal order...

https://defensearchives.com/news/irving-shipbuilding-awarded-5-57-billion-contract-for-royal-canadian-navys-new-destroyers/ Some interesting information from this article, with some behind the scenes info from the embargoed event last Friday.

Debatably so, these breakdowns are generally obtuse and nearly impossible to glean any actually worthwhile information from.

Regardless who hoists it upon who, we are stuck with it like an albatross around our necks.

Anybody advocating for unmanned platforms to entirely or mostly replace manned submarines in the context of the RAN's requirements is fundamentally misinformed or unserious.

Hard to judge what is appropriate or not from these figures provided when we are missing effectively all context, we can't compare them to foreign contemporaries when we don't even know what is included within them as far as costs. The RCN typically uses some very strange, overly inclusive...

I would take Davie's claims on a 2030 delivery with a grain of salt, even given their help from Helsinki here. Davie commonly makes outlandish claims and is rarely called out on them, especially given their track record cannot be leaned upon at all here. Seaspan is supposed 2 years behind than...