New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

[PrairieFella]

Iowa gets activated for the third time at nearly 100 years old:

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Iowa gets activated for the third time at nearly 100 years old:

B-52's laugh in JP-4

 

[Rudburg]

B-52's laugh in JP-4

"Lazy battleships, sitting in mothballs and doing nothing for decades...they turn you into a monument and I'm still on ground alert in Minot."

 

[SeaKingTacco]

B-52's laugh in JP-4

JP-8/100

 

[Underway]

They have reported to be very capable vessels with regard to their hulls, seakeeping, speed, stealth, acoustic signatures and missile batteries however, there is some issues like lacking certain radars that puts them at a bit of a disadvantage now that things are back to peer to peer conflicts.

Oh I don't know. They carry a lot of missiles (80 VLS) still and are probably better placed to deal with USV's then other ships in the USN. We also have to start thinking in terms of the Task Group team with the insert of CEC instead of ships on their own. What does a Zumwalt bring to the table in terms of Task Group resources/capability?

Its also very hard to detect a Zumwalt honestly as well. That counts for something.

 

[Maxman1]

Iowa gets activated for the third time at nearly 100 years old:

Meanwhile , USS New Jersey:

 

[Rainbow1910]

VAdm Topshee giving some thoughts regarding the MCDV replacement with his recent interview with the Canadian Defence Review. From classifying the CSC as a destroyer and now speaking of corvettes and WWII, Topshee seems to have some romantic ideas of the RCN of the past and is looking to carry some things forward. I am somewhat worried about these ideas about "more capable than what might come to mind with a corvette because it has to be a real warship."

Replacing the MCDV with something that isn't the MCDV is a disaster in the making potentially, everything from overly complex, feature kept designs to encroaching on the CSC program and resulting in cuts there. I hope the RCN is treading carefully with the MCDV replacement program, the potential for another mess seems high with this attitude.

CDR: "Is there going to be a follow on to the class? People have been talking about a Corvette type ship."

VAdm Topshee: "The nuance that I would offer is that the MCDV replacement will not be an MCDV. We have started some theorizing around what would a Canadian Multi-mission Corvette look like? It's a nod to our history and I love the fact that we were a corvette and destroyer navy in the Second World War. What we're probably building is something that's going to be more capable than what might come to mind with a corvette because it has to be a real warship. The driving philosophy behind whatever comes is that it needs to be what we could not quickly replicate in a time of war. I think what we need to make sure we do with what's being called the Canadian Multi-mission Corvette, is figure out the core sort of warship systems that we need to have, the type of thing that you can't build quickly in wartime. The first part of any project is always that sort of initial identification of requirements, and that's very much the phase of the thinking that we're at right now.

 

[Halifax Tar]

VAdm Topshee giving some thoughts regarding the MCDV replacement with his recent interview with the Canadian Defence Review. From classifying the CSC as a destroyer and now speaking of corvettes and WWII, Topshee seems to have some romantic ideas of the RCN of the past and is looking to carry some things forward. I am somewhat worried about these ideas about "more capable than what might come to mind with a corvette because it has to be a real warship."

Replacing the MCDV with something that isn't the MCDV is a disaster in the making potentially, everything from overly complex, feature kept designs to encroaching on the CSC program and resulting in cuts there. I hope the RCN is treading carefully with the MCDV replacement program, the potential for another mess seems high with this attitude.

I mean if we want to keep the coastal defence stuff I give you the Finish Coastal Defence Ship Väinämöinen as an idea.

Finnish coastal defence ship Väinämöinen - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Stoker]

VAdm Topshee giving some thoughts regarding the MCDV replacement with his recent interview with the Canadian Defence Review. From classifying the CSC as a destroyer and now speaking of corvettes and WWII, Topshee seems to have some romantic ideas of the RCN of the past and is looking to carry some things forward. I am somewhat worried about these ideas about "more capable than what might come to mind with a corvette because it has to be a real warship."

Replacing the MCDV with something that isn't the MCDV is a disaster in the making potentially, everything from overly complex, feature kept designs to encroaching on the CSC program and resulting in cuts there. I hope the RCN is treading carefully with the MCDV replacement program, the potential for another mess seems high with this attitude.

Word has it that the VAdm's latest contribution was that we are classifying the River Class as destroyers. Apparently the new RCN march to replace Heart of Oak was also his as well.
I understand where they're coming from on the MCDV replacement although I still think we need something as simple as possible and easy to maintain. We should of done this for AOPS as well, we made that ship too complicated and now maintenance is apparently not getting done as its a pretty small technical department and a large ship.