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I have a hard time buying this as a serious proposal, given how the Germans and Norwegians have 6 and 4 boats of that class already ordered respectively. That isn't even considering the 3 and 2 additional boats likely to be added to the previously mentioned orders by those nations respectively...

The ability to organically carry a manned helicopter is incredibly value in effectively every aspect of naval operations however, the challenges and tradeoffs inherent to fitting such a capability into such a seemingly small design is also very difficult. The bigger issue is the total lack of...

Israeli ships are similar to their Russian counterparts, weaponry and sensors are given a premium versus basically everything else. Seakeeping, range, stability, endurance, crew amenities, etc are all sacrificed to jam everything into these relatively small hulls. They look good on paper but...

The River class had a designed service life of 30 years per hull if I recall correctly, the first vessel is planned to be service in the early 2030's and the last vessel is planned to enter in 2048-2049. Irving may be able to speed this process up as the process goes along, as we have seen with...

Vard released a new advertisement in the newest edition of Canadian Defence Review and it featured an updated Vigilance variant alongside the "current" model we've had for over a year. Given how aggressively Vard has pushed Vigilance and how they seem to have a finger on the pulse of the CMMC...

I don't think people understand how limited shipbuilding within North America is and how tightly planned the NSS actually is. There is effectively no yards that could be used to speed up River class production in any meaningful way without taking Davie and throwing their very important CCG...

I simple do not see the point in bringing the CCG into the picture to dump part of the burden upon them, versus actually providing the support and funding required to the RCN to properly do the job they are required to do. Fund each organization to do what they are mandated and required to do...

RCN Submarine Branch was originally stood up in early August of 1914 with HMCS CC-1 and CC-2, went to Halifax in 1917 and did not leave until they were scrapped in 1920. HMCS CH14 and CH15 were transferred to the RCN in Feb of 1919, they laid unused until April of 1920. They weren't really...

I've said it previously I think but generally, I don't think all the effort and funding required to force the CCG into a role they obviously want no part of is worthwhile. CCG and DFO employees are overworked and have enough to deal with as it is, trying to bring them into additional armed...

The logistics of dumping all of that money and effort into a world class shipyard, only to mothball it does not pass the sniff test to me. Where do the staff that man this yard go when its mothballed? It takes significant time to build a skilled labor force for modern shipbuilding, Seaspan...

Multi-mission decks are seemingly the future and allow for a serious amount of variety in how ships can be configured for specific missions, any design that does not have that as a primary design feature is not worthy of consideration. The 45 personnel requirement of the CMMC currently is a bit...

It makes little sense to me to spend tens of billions of entirely taxpayers dollars to create a nationally run shipyard when we've just spend untold years and billions of dollars to bring Seaspan and Irving back up to capacity. Unless you start actively taking away work from Seaspan, Davie and...

Realistically this is the best case scenario given the National Shipbuilding Strategy, piecemealing ship production throughout a bunch of yards only serves to lessen efficiencies of scale and burn through the production run too quickly. See what happened with the Halifax class and the aftermath...

New News regarding the state of the RCN's procurements as of late.

Yes it should be, my autocorrect seems to hate the word Antarctica and I can't go back to edit it lol.

Quick AOPS news update, HMCS Margaret Brooke made port visits to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on February 2nd, Montevideo, Uruguay on February 8th and is currently in Buenos Aires, Argentina today (February 11th). She is deployed on Operation PROJECTION 2025 and will circumnavigate South America...

I would not be charitable and expect additional F-35A and P-8 orders to come from this, the logistics of operating a full time military base in the North are also interesting to say the least. I am fairly sure he meant that the current pair of CCG Polar icebreakers would be delivered by 2029...

Lack of a mission deck kills any competitor before it can get off the ground.

Threatening Canada with what amounts to a recession, incendiary rhetoric regarding our sovereignty and treating your long term partner as you would a belligerent criminal neighbor is frankly insulting behavior from any ally, let alone from our closest in the United States. Resigning ourselves to...

I am not especially convinced by vague hand gesturing to outsource RCN duties to contracted ships, who's contracts might never materialize in the first place or be easily cut in the future. Considering how badly the Govt managed to get sponged with the Asterix lease, I don't have high hopes for...