Continental Defence Corvette

[YZT580]

To be fair that is a political level eff up. That is if the RCN did their job and laid out a detailed reason to said political type, why they needed to go with this idea. If they didn't, then it falls back onto the RCN brass.

Trying to recall 'cause that was a long time ago but didn't Ottawa agree to finish off Ottawa on condition that St. John's would shut down and never build another?

 

[FSTO]

Trying to recall 'cause that was a long time ago but didn't Ottawa agree to finish off Ottawa on condition that St. John's would shut down and never build another?

That would be a monumental stupid idea and totally in line with government thinking.


Also for the good citizens of New Brunswick its Saint John. St. John`s is full of people who talk funny.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Trying to recall 'cause that was a long time ago but didn't Ottawa agree to finish off Ottawa on condition that St. John's would shut down and never build another?

That is so fucked up. So likely true.

 

[Nvlgzr]

Trying to recall 'cause that was a long time ago but didn't Ottawa agree to finish off Ottawa on condition that St. John's would shut down and never build another?

Yes, the government gave them money to ‘Make It So”. (TNG fan boy here)

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

It's important to remember that there was supposed to be a batch III of Halifax's, IIRC stretched from the original to have 24 VLS Mk41 cells in front of the bridge for SM2's, but when the Mulroney government put out his White paper on defense calling for nuclear attack submarines, that batch was cancelled to be replaced with the subs. Then the wall fell down, the world changed and the White paper - in the middle of a recession - was forgotten, but the Batch III never reinstated. Mulroney retired, Kim and her conservatives were wiped out by Chretien, and he was just has happy as could be to not reinstate the ships the Navy then said they should get back since the submarines were canned, to placate his finance minister that was tasked with cutting the deficit.

 

[NavyShooter]

Actually. The SM2 version might have been one option. There was another option, and the ships were actually fitted/wired for some of the other option.

Option 2 was a mid-ships extension with an extra set of 8 Sea Sparrow launchers on each side added. How do I know? If you visit the EIC compartment, and look at the power panels for the Static Frequency Converters, they had an 'expansion' slot marked on one of the panels for the extra 400Hz power systems for the extra missiles.