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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...

It would not be an especially wise idea as fundamentally, AOPS is not designed to act in these sorts of armed roles and the vessel itself is poorly suited. There is very limited space to fit these systems, and you also need to deal with their power, ammunition, upkeep and personnel requirements...

AEGIS is also a well proven and top of the line system, allowing us to be very interoperable with a lot of our equipment and allies abroad.

The problem isn't the fact that the stock was a laminated wooden type, it was that the stock's overall quality was poor, they were not properly sealed and thus fell apart upon use. The stocks in testing apparently faired very well and passed, but there was a drastic drop in quality control...

Relevant to the River class, apparently the Dutch have sent the frigate Evertsen to Cyprus with its brand new OTO 127/64 LW inoperable. Some relevant statements from Noah, apparently the Germans and Dutch have both been facing integration issues of the Italian system. It's not entirely...

This sort of thing is at odds with other politically driven government policy around firearms ownership by the populace in Canada, incredibly unlikely at this point.

I fail to see how this would be effectively different from what Saab is offering Canada at the end of the day, as we would need a similar sort of technology and expertise transfer to undertake this sort of work. Embraer is not some backwater operation, they are a substantial aerospace firm who...

It's been well known for quite sometime that the Hunter class is actively paying for such a sizable mast/array alongside its 32 VLS cells by basically eating the entire weight margins for the design, leaving effectively nothing left for future additions. There has also been concerns regarding...

Hence why much to Minister Joly’s dismay, automotive factories were not ultimately part of the CPSP bids.