Continental Defence Corvette

[Halifax Tar]

I guess what I was trying to ask and didn't do a good job of was, can you 'tell' by looking at the shells if there would be the potential that there was an issue with the proximately fuses or is the only way to know that there was an issue was to fire them?

Probably a better question for @AmmoTech90.

 

[Rainbow1910]

How old will our 57's be by the time we build the CDC's (if they get built) and we decide to reuse the 57's on the new CDC's? Would we be risking the same scenario as you describe above?

The Danish 76mm guns/mount stockpiles seem to be from likely the 1970's to 1980's, and very likely seems to have been a combination of improper maintenance or breakdowns due to age. From what I can see, the mounts/guns off the Halifax are partially original as BAE Systems received a contract to upgrade them from Mk 2 to Bofors 57 mm Mk 3 config for the FELEX upgrade package. The guns/mounts went abroad from 2010 to 2016, before being returned to Canada. They are likely still good if we keep rotating our ammunition stocks however by the time the Halifax class are retired, penny pinching for a relatively cheap system being reused seems like a poor bargain.