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How many drones does one need? I guess that depends on the definition of the threat? Are the UAVs only for surveillance? Are they to be suicide drones? If the later, then likely the more that are carried the better. Is an ISTAR drone the appropriate drone if a warship has a full up UVX...

Singapore has an interesting design ... perhaps not a full up UVX, but it has interesting capabilities. https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2026/01/singapore-lays-keel-of-second-victory-class-mrcv/ Its also a big ship, at 150 meters length .. It is unlikey to fit in to a $5-ibillion Cdn...

When I look at the Portuguese NRP D. João II class UVX, I note it is is 107.6 meters in length. It is a small but quite possibly very capable for its size UVX. Then I took a look at the Harry deWolf class, which is 103.6 meters. They are both around 7,000 tons displacement. Presumeably for...

The Turkish approach is interesting, where they combined both a drone carrier and an amphibious assault warship: TCG Anadolu - Wikipedia At 27,500 tons thou, it is much larger than the wiki 8,000 tons speculation: UXV Combatant - Wikipedia. Perhaps the Portuguese NRP D. João II (constructed...

Obviously its up to the RCN and the political government in power in Canada to decide on budget and requirements. If thou, the 'Canadian Continental Corvette' is to have the range for Canadian Arctic operations, it means an Ocean going range - which means extra cost for a capable design. And if...

I am a big fan of Coast Guard ships, and a big fan of Naval ships. I wish the Malaysian Coast Guard all the best with this ship, but for certain, 'as is', it is no corvette warship, and definitely would not meet Canada's naval needs for a Corvette. Not in the slightest. My understanding is a...

That is in my view a good point. Mod Edit; text removed as per site guidelines

If the $5 billion is a random number assigned to 8 corvettes or less, I would agree. Go for newer equipment. But if one is talking 12 to 20 corvettes, with only $5-billion Canadian to spend, then if one cranks the numbers, it really does become very very clear that it is not possible to buy...

I note there is more than one article on the internet suggesting a budget of only $5-billion Canadian dollars for up to 20 Continental Defence Corvettes. That works out to about $250 million Canadian dollars per corvette, which IMHO is incredibly tight and possibly not realistic,unless some...