Continental Defence Corvette

[Kirkhill]

Further to the thought:

If the CUAS battle is of sufficient concern that our friends and allies are making efforts to create enough CUAS devices to supply point defences to critical infrastructure on shore, in both war and peace due to this gray area we currently inhabit, then do we need to consider at least the possibility of grafting CUAS packages on to Coast Guard vessels?

And the Russians have discovered a significant number of their cargo vessels being immobilized, far from their primary theatres, by USVs and UUVs.

 

[Furniture]

And what kind of defense would they need?

That would depend on the threat environment.

In Canadian waters, likely little defence, and they be unlikely to be used outside of Canadian waters in a shooting war.

I agree that we can't treat every vessel, every potential target as a military target, but if we don't then it becomes critical civil infrastructure that presents as a target that needs defending.

Trying to defend everything leaves you defending nothing. You need to use your Int to tailor the defence to the threat, and accept that sometimes unpredicted things happen.

If the CUAS battle is of sufficient concern that our friends and allies are making efforts to create enough CUAS devices to supply point defences to critical infrastructure on shore, in both war and peace due to this gray area we currently inhabit, then do we need to consider at least the possibility of grafting CUAS packages on to Coast Guard vessels?

Who is going to crew those systems? They dont crew themselves, and the CCG doesn't sail around with a bunch of extra crew to have monitoring CUAS systems 24/7.

There is no point adding expensive systems that won't be crewed, and if we know to add the extra crew because of a specific threat, we know to not send the ship in the first place.