Canadian River Class Destroyer Megathread

[GR66]

Just a thought but just because a ship is designed doesn’t mean it has to be built immediately or perhaps at all.

A CDC vessel, a sub tender, a hospital ship, a C2 ship like the Blue Ridge Class, maybe a militarized AOP , pick 2-3 and get the designers working.
Keeps the skills alive and the designs might prove handy?

No reason they have to design military ships is there? Might be hard to compete with the Koreans, etc. on general commercial ships but I imagine there are plenty of specialty ships for industry that could compete for. Conversions as well?

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

Oceanographic survey is a CCG job, and and also not a specialized ship anymore. You can have a UUV and offshore work ship do it no problems.

Actually, CFAV Quest and CFAV Endeavour were oceanographic research vessels that did a lot of the Defense Research Establishment work related to ASW and mine warfare. That did include some underwater surveying as required in support of that work. There is no reason further research in those fields shouldn't continue, and perhaps it is time to replace those vessels so we can continue with it.

 

[Maxman1]

Just a thought but just because a ship is designed doesn’t mean it has to be built immediately or perhaps at all.

A CDC vessel, a sub tender, a hospital ship, a C2 ship like the Blue Ridge Class, maybe a militarized AOP , pick 2-3 and get the designers working.
Keeps the skills alive and the designs might prove handy?

The Mistral class does several of those things. It has C2 facilities rivaling the Blue Ridge class allowing it to act as its own command ship, and NATO Role 3 medical facilities with a 69 beds, of which 7 are fit for intensive care, and in a pinch cots and room dividers can be set up in the hangars, and the flight deck and well deck speed up medivac patient transfer.

Or there's the larger  Canberra class LHD, which has similar C2 and hospital facilities, but quite a bit more troop capacity. Maybe we could get a license for it and have Seaspan redesign it to remove the ramp (the biggest criticism of the class) and convert it to a flat top helicopter carrier, unless the E-2D can be operated off it.