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Are Submarines a required capability in a modern Navy??
Before we get out off topic in another thread I figured I would throw this out to you all.
It was discussed in the AOR thread that our Subs may or may not be replaced as they see their service lives come to an end. It was suggested that the Submarine community doesn’t sell their usefulness to the public well enough to be noticed. I would say our media doesn’t care about the subs enough unless they are blacked out stuck at sea or costing the tax payers more money than they think they are worth. To the Canadian press our navy is not news unless its bad news and with the subs it’s even worse.
To my knowledge most if not all navies keep there Submarine operations and methods very secretive. If you were in Halifax you might notice that there is one Sub in the Water and if you asked what was under the white tent you would be told another is there. A keen person might start counting and consider that Victoria is in the ditch out west totaling 3 hulls. That means at this time one is missing. Unless you are part of that community or have a clearance to know you will never really be told what the 4th hull is up too. They will give you brief details but you will never really know. You could account time for training but they have been truly in operational situations in the past few years and have been very useful.
Just because you can’t read about them in the Trident doesn’t mean they are not serving our navy just as effectively as the Skimmers are in the Gulf, or off Africa. They get do it all with little or no recognition, tax free perks or Foreign Service pay.
I would still say you would be cutting off a very important piece of the entire CF if you didn’t plan to replace the subs at some point in the future.
Before we get out off topic in another thread I figured I would throw this out to you all.
It was discussed in the AOR thread that our Subs may or may not be replaced as they see their service lives come to an end. It was suggested that the Submarine community doesn’t sell their usefulness to the public well enough to be noticed. I would say our media doesn’t care about the subs enough unless they are blacked out stuck at sea or costing the tax payers more money than they think they are worth. To the Canadian press our navy is not news unless its bad news and with the subs it’s even worse.
To my knowledge most if not all navies keep there Submarine operations and methods very secretive. If you were in Halifax you might notice that there is one Sub in the Water and if you asked what was under the white tent you would be told another is there. A keen person might start counting and consider that Victoria is in the ditch out west totaling 3 hulls. That means at this time one is missing. Unless you are part of that community or have a clearance to know you will never really be told what the 4th hull is up too. They will give you brief details but you will never really know. You could account time for training but they have been truly in operational situations in the past few years and have been very useful.
Just because you can’t read about them in the Trident doesn’t mean they are not serving our navy just as effectively as the Skimmers are in the Gulf, or off Africa. They get do it all with little or no recognition, tax free perks or Foreign Service pay.
I would still say you would be cutting off a very important piece of the entire CF if you didn’t plan to replace the subs at some point in the future.