New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

[Kirkhill]

AOPS shouldn't be sent anywhere where it is vulnerable to the threats your describe, just like how we did not send CPF's into the Red Sea as they were not adequately able to deal with the threat environment at hand. Putting a 57mm gun aboard the ships isn't sufficient insurance to risk valuable vessels and their crews in peacetime against these threats.

Won't we have enough for them to do just doing the job they were originally intended to do? Running backwards and forwards from Esquimalt and Halifax to the ice edge, keeping 2 or three permanently on station between in the Beaufort and Baffin areas?

Angus mused about getting a big ship for the arctic. He has six ships for the arctic, and a couple of Coast Guard ones as well. Perhaps he could start integrating those lily pads with JTFN.

 

[Rainbow1910]

Won't we have enough for them to do just doing the job they were originally intended to do? Running backwards and forwards from Esquimalt and Halifax to the ice edge, keeping 2 or three permanently on station between in the Beaufort and Baffin areas?

Angus mused about getting a big ship for the arctic. He has six ships for the arctic, and a couple of Coast Guard ones as well. Perhaps he could start integrating those lily pads with JTFN.

Yes, AOPS has their hands full as it is between their own duties and now taking on MCDV duties. Doing CPF duties is totally untenable.