Continental Defence Corvette

[Czech_pivo]

Perhaps. But we have yards that exist that could, with the design time/long lead items purchase be ready to build the CDC. Davie and Ontario shipyards have the space, perhaps not the workforce. But right now we're adequate.

This was a US guy who did that post so...

Also I'm worried about building out yards that will eventually come up to your heavy cynic being correct. Ontario shipyards goes all in, builds 20 CDC in 12 years then the gov't walks away. That's basically overcapacity. Whereas Seaspan and Iriving will never go away at this point. They are going to be steadily building ships forever. We're 15 years into the NSS and getting results.

If we stay with 15 Rivers at Irving and we decided to build 12-20 CDC's within Canada, then what alternatives are there besides having Davie or Ontario Shipyards build them? Irving has 22+ yrs of work ahead of it in just building the 15 Rivers. By that time HDW will be right about 30yrs old. Just in time to be replaced.

 

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If we stay with 15 Rivers at Irving and we decided to build 12-20 CDC's within Canada, then what alternatives are there besides having Davie or Ontario Shipyards build them? Irving has 22+ yrs of work ahead of it in just building the 15 Rivers. By that time HDW will be right about 30yrs old. Just in time to be replaced.

You are not wrong. This is the puzzle. I suspect that you could do multiple blocks at different locations like the UK does. Collect them all in Halifax, and put them together. That way no big investment in anything huge for Ontario Shipyards or Davie as they can easily build blocks.

LMC does the combat systems integration as they won't be doing to much for Rivers. (At this point they are just passing msg's to BAE and LM in the US).

Another option is the "small yard" portion of the NSS does blocks, sends them to Halifax and when they are not doing that they are building the Orca replacements, as those will be below 1000 tons.

 

[Czech_pivo]

You are not wrong. This is the puzzle. I suspect that you could do multiple blocks at different locations like the UK does. Collect them all in Halifax, and put them together. That way no big investment in anything huge for Ontario Shipyards or Davie as they can easily build blocks.

LMC does the combat systems integration as they won't be doing to much for Rivers. (At this point they are just passing msg's to BAE and LM in the US).

Another option is the "small yard" portion of the NSS does blocks, sends them to Halifax and when they are not doing that they are building the Orca replacements, as those will be below 1000 tons.

The other 'wildcard' in this mix is a pair of new some sort of Arctic 'capable' Amphibious Landing Ships. I would imagine that the desire to keep this ship 'in house', meaning the design/build within Canada, who could even be up for building this in say 8 years out from here?

This is much further down the road and just a gleam in someone's eye, but nevertheless it can't be forgotten or swept under the table.