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That leads me to believe that the planned life extension is pointless. Is there any chance they’ll shelve that process or are we just gonna keep throwing tic-tacs into the Sun?

Serious question about the VIC’s. Is there any way that we can get them out and doing the business, reliably, to take some of the strain off the CPF fleet? I know they don’t fill the same roles, but in instances where they might fit?

Lol, maybe we’d qualify for some of GUARDIANS that Australia is donating to Pacific allies…😉

If that was the range, I’d hope they’d go with the 30mm Lionfish from the CSC. I’d also like to see AOPS upgraded to that as well. The 25mm is hampered by limited selection in munitions. No air burst and lower elevation may make a difference with regards to drones, no matter how uncommon that...

Ahh, ok. I think I read somewhere that there was originally supposed to be a larger calibre main gun that was sacrificed due to the extra weight involved.

So long as the class was designed right from the start to have a level of ice strengthening. I seem to remember the OTAGO class having a lot of trouble with stability and losing capability because of adding ice strengthening on a design that didn’t have it from the beginning.

I stand corrected…

Fresh ain’t the way to go in this instance. They smoke better dry…

Personally, I’d like to see a multi use area where a hangar might be on a helo carrying vessel. It could house any number of mission specific equipment sets and perhaps a VTOL uav (S-100 or V-Bat for example) more or less permanently. I think a flight deck with a refuel capability would be an...

Sorry OGBD, I didn’t see your post until after I responded. I see you are relocating the centre of gravity to lower in the vessel.

What’s the fundamental issue with the stability in the class? I’m just wondering if it’s endemic to the platform or if it could be mitigated somehow other than restricting where it can go. I think your assault boat might be feasible for Arctic/riverine usage but I can’t imagine it being super...

I’m just wondering if those assault style boats are necessarily the best fit? Wouldn’t it make more sense just to build more ORCA’s for that role? We already know the ship and it serves well as a training platform too. If you strengthened the foredeck a little more to accept a proper RWS, I...

Sure, but that seems light for DC in a vessel that is longer and displaces more than a CPF. I don’t know if that crew number is super realistic, crew burnout is a real worry. Look what happened to the LCS guys, reportedly.

I think that’s a little big and crew intensive for what they’re looking for. It’s essentially a somewhat less capable HALIFAX, so I think that might be overkill.

I wonder if there’s something out there that has a version of a mission bay on an OPV/Corvette sized vessel. I keep thinking about how the Germans, French, British etc are moving towards small autonomous/remote operated surface vessels with deployable mine clearing systems. It your Tier 2 vessel...

Do they want something that can take on more roles than an MCDV does now, if so, what would those roles be? FONOPS in the SCS, possibly? Or is it that they just want a platform that addresses the class’s shortcomings to be able to better perform the tasking it does now. How much of a difference...

I suppose the part that I found most alarming was that the bulk of our sea power is concentrated in the CPF’s and their days are numbered. A long birth for the CSC’s put us in worse position than others. The RN has a little bit more to fall back on with the Type 45, subs and even Rivers for...

2035…Holy Hell. I hope there’s some sort of Plan B that the RCN is working on, because if there’s anything I’ve learned from this forum, it’s that the CPF’s are rounding the bend. It looks very much like the Navy is going to be short on warships in the not too distant future and I have to wonder...

It was meant to be a bit tongue in cheek. I’d love to see how they’d handle security at, say, Iroquois Lock with a nuke boat in transit. Also, it makes any chance of quick response to a perceived threat almost non existent, unless you want it enforcing no wake zones in and out of Cobourg Marina…

Darlington…