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I'm not talking about opinions, I'm referencing what we're aware actually happened officially or unofficially regarding the "Tribal" naming scheme for the River class. We have folks on this forum who were directly involved with the process and they have specifically listed some of the reasons...

What I understood was that Canada would be getting very early production boats to actually meet our timeline, which would likely mean effectively the first boats or ones very soon after. The company who magically shifted the primary issues with their bid forward at the last minute to pull out a...

Which Canada now has the honours of receiving a number of early production boats which we need to replace our own aging submarines, with all of their quibbles and issues intact. The Germans and Norwegians get to sit back while we beta test the design, a design which isn't even operational as of...

When one bidder is specifically behind on one element for the majority of their bid and manages to correct it AND beat their competitor in the last minute, I think a healthy dose of skepticism is warranted. Doubly so when they are already dealing with production bottlenecks and a number of other...

Nominal crewing is the same according to both parties, KSS-III being larger has additional bunk space set aside specifically for crew training and other purposes though.

This is standard procurement stuff, just like how we kept Saab on the backburner even after they lost to Lockheed Martin. From what we have seen in the public sphere, both bids were very comparable in what they offered. I don't think TKMS had an advantage over the Koreans, atleast for what was...

Incapable? Surely not, Canada is a first world nation that can realistically do many things. Just because we can do something though, doesn't mean we should do it at the end of the day. I can also point to nations like India, Spain and Korea who have all had substantial growing pains and...

I very much question the plausibility in doing anything besides rather small scale or minor assembly work, as submarine construction is basically the most complex, expensive and difficult industrial efforts that a nation can embark upon. This is doubly so regarding cutting edge designs like the...

K9 Thunder is very unlikely to happen given GDLS-Canada's LAV 10x10 based AGM bid, which is almost certainly going to sweep the competition given the initial requirements were literally made for that platform. If the Hanwha submarine bid had been successful and K9 production had been set up in...

I hope the Germans are held to account on their promises to dump money into the port of Churchill boondoggle and not allowed to weasel out of it now that they’ve seemingly won.

This government seems to be onboard with an increasing number of very questionable pie in the sky domestic industrial investments, so I wouldn’t be surprised that they bit onto a promise such as that in the end.

All of the army contracts are almost certainly going to Europe and even if the Koreans had a decent chance at them, they are minuscule in value and effort in comparison to this submarine program.

The choice of submarine doesn’t bother me as much as the choice of national partner. Canada is already a fairly close ally of both Germany and Norway through NATO and increasingly as of late, other economic and military partnerships. I personally view deepening of this relationship as a bit of a...

I very much hope so, a split fleet would be catastrophic for the RCN. Not that the PMO seems to care about operational reality given its leanings for major procurement programs as of late.....

I think the flipside of this is any announcements of this sort of magnitude at such a well attended and covered multi-national event will see huge media coverage both at home and abroad. If we want to show we are serious and especially regarding the size and substance of the submarine...

Fighter jet announcement at the NATO Summit would definitely be a choice, given it's basically the highest profile platform to announce a procurement. I would have guessed that if they were going for Gripen, they would have kept it more low key at home in a bid not to enflame the US given...

A Ukraine contract which is still up in the air, for a country at war who cannot pay for the aircraft themselves. Such an order could disappear tomorrow, is that the sort of item we want to hedge billions of dollars of investments and a 5-10 years of development on? Other export options for...

There is a distinct difference with all of these points, all of these nations have pre-existing established capability to design, produce and build these aircraft domestically. You are comparing that to something in all likelihood where Canada is going to be assembling largely foreign produced...

From the article you linked: This is incredibly worrisome, it sounds like we have the RCAF, DND and the Defence Minister being either frozen out of the fighter review or being actively undermined in their opinions/proposals by the Industry Minister and the Secretary of State for Defence...

The F-35 has a service life of 30-40+ years and considering the investment/cost/capability of the airframe, it would be intensively idiotic to retire the F-35A fleet at 20 years after delivery, keeping the much less capable and less advanced Gripen fleet operational to fly with some other...