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I think its relevant to actually look at the old property, Irving setup a drywall facility/other over top of the old property (alongside other businesses) and all of the actual shipbuilding infrastructure has seemingly been sold off, destroyed or left to rot. The Koreans would need to tear...

Not to be left behind in the overall zeitgeist of current Canadian procurement, Saab's CEO Micael Johansson is back on CTV News making very suspect claims as to the specifics of their bid to replace the CF-18...

NULKA is becoming an older system that while still capable, is being left behind by the incoming LEED system on US warships. They do want to utilize mature and in-service systems to reduce risk however, items as important as decoys and the electronic warfare suite cannot afford to be second...

Considering that LEED is a high end decoy being actively developed by the US Navy to replace NULKA and given the fact that the RCD is a fair distance away from commissioning, I think its entirely fair to expect this system to be ready at that time.

The listed dimensions are not new, they've been available on the official Govt RCD fact sheet for quite sometime. So the dimensions are legitimate as well. https://www.canada.ca/en/navy/corporate/fleet-units/surface/river-class-destroyer/fact-sheet.html They've also today seemingly confirmed...

It's almost like throwing a gun on a non-combatant doesn't make it a combatant?

I think its fairly clear that Hanwha would be unable to purchase any of the major shipbuilding yards such as Irving, Davie and Seaspan however, there is a number of smaller repair yards across the country they could realistically buy and upgrade to work as repair/maintenance yards for the...

I would be immensely disappointed by switching to some generic haze gray paint scheme, given how Canada has its own very distinct paint colour not matched by anybody abroad. I'm also a bit skeptical due to the fact the exact shade of the paint seems to shift a lot to the eye in various lighting...

This is a major factor, but it's also something to consider that there is a lot of sensitive and sometimes relatively new hardware present within the Victoria class as well. They are looking to retrofit a new, fairly capable American sonar system as one example. We'd have to strip the submarine...

JAGM gives you another bank of systems that can simultaneously meet a saturation attack in combination with the rest of the weapon systems aboard, being a low cost (1/3 cost of a RAM shot), fire and forget and with an advanced seeker able to do laser designation, millimeter wave or infrared...

It's also something to consider as well that the launcher might not be dedicated to one system, but more of a generic soft launch system for various items such as decoys and even hard kill drone systems. It's fairly sizable and present on both sides, that's a hell of a lot of decoys alone.

If we were unwilling to sell or "pawn off" the far less advanced and sensitive Kingston class, no way in hell the RCN is giving a bunch of SSK's to some backwater given the equipment inside.

Some alternate angles released by the RCN on Twitter today showing the launchers are indeed offset enough to clear the nearby structures, I'm inclined to agree with you at this point I'd say. What I thought was a Nulka launcher on the hanger roof looks to be some kind of radar or other vertical...

I think the placement is screwy regardless of what you put into the launchers, as even a soft launched system would be dangerously close to impacting the various items you mention being so close to. Even considering that, you have a potential for a misfire fouling important sections of the ship...

To clarify, SeaRAM is just Phalanx with the 20mm cannon replaced by an 11 cell RAM launcher, while the full 21 shot launcher is known as the Mk 49 Guided Missile Launching System (GMLS). The previous rumour was two 21 shot launchers likely where the Phalanx slots are, but it seems that never...

RAM mostly, maybe the 30mm guns to some limited degree, and presumably whatever is in those mysterious box launchers. Phalanx has a very spotting track record of actually protecting ships against proper threats, so losing it really isn't much of a loss when its replaced by what we have aboard.

Awesome model! I see the strange 3x3 cell box launcher forward of where the UK and AUS Phalanx's are located is still here from that weird Irving rendering from February, I wonder what it is? It's squished ahead to the point its firing angles vertically might be troublesome, but it's a shape...

Damn I hope it gets shown to the public, although I have my doubts lol.

It’s not just you, I’ve heard it from other people elsewhere as well.

SEA released a "new" rendering of the River class destroyer with some uh.....very strange and interesting traits. I'll preface this with the obvious point that this is a very questionable and rough model, but I think going over some of the things present are worth discussion. It looks like...