Because we won’t decide on a submarine until next year (summer earliest) , then negotiate a submarine purchase agreement & a maintenance contract. Once terms including payment schedules are established, then the government will include it in future budgets.
Trudeau in 2015 vowed to scrap the F-35. There wasn’t an order with Harper just intent. Trudeau canceled nothing. They played this numbers game to delay buying anything. The numbers changed from 65 to 88. Talk of getting Super Hornets as an interim to bump the numbers. I think Boeing was...
For Canada deliveries are supposed to begin next year. We order block 4, but due to standard program slippages, block for isn’t expected till 2031/32 . About the time
Had a similar thought. By nuclear deterrent my thought is the Vanguards, tridents, cruise missiles and fissile material inventories. Not the Astutes and Trafalgers.
“As it makes the decision, the federal government will put a lot of weight on what kind of package each company can offer in terms of sustainment for the fleet of 12 submarines after they’re purchased. Fifty per cent of the company’s score will be in that category.
According to the bid...
Stoker is correct, “we won’t be surfacing through ice pack.”
Before taking such a risk to the crew and boat; it would be prudent for the manufacturer to create a computer model of ice conditions and observe how the submarine model and ice model react to the other.
Too slow, Topshee is looking for mid twenty knots. He wants a Halifax in a smaller package. Listen to Topshee’s interview with Noah:
https://noahscornerofrandomstuff.substack.com/p/lets-talk-with-vice-admiral-angus-11d?utm_source=publication-search
GR66, thanks for the posting.
“and the Protecteur-class would sustain both.”
Topshee has mentioned that the Corvettes will need to be rated PC6 minus. If so, won’t future AORs need to be similarly rated to provide support to warships operating in the Arctic.
Exactly. If, negotiations were to resume, it will be one sided in favour of our submission to their demands. Trump has been clear that the US has all “the cards”.
Operating under the ice needs to be defined. I suspect it means travelling a short distance under the ice edge. Our subs will not be transiting under the ice.
The power plant doesn’t determine if you can punch thru the ice. The amount of reserve buoyancy is what determines if it can push up...
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