You and your logic...It sounds like that would be a good question to be answered within the context of some kind of well developed, and supported, national defence focused strategic plan.
If we had one
I think the deciding factor was the fact French subs use low enriched uranium that must be refueled every ten years which requires a nuclear industry that Australia doesn't have, whereas American subs use weapons grade uranium that lasts the life of the sub. Presumably they decided it was more sensible to go with a clean sheet design instead of putting a British reactor in a French hull.
It seems it was announced just last week that Australia will purchase three Virginia class subs as an interim until the new design is ready, which will be the same used by the Royal Navy and will reportedly have VLS tubes, something the Barracudas lack (possibly another reason they chose a different design).
Britain's New Attack Submarine To Be First With VLS - Naval News
The future British attack submarine, the SSNR, will feature a vertical launch system (VLS). This is a first for the Royal Navy and will increase interoperability with American allies. This can be seen as a smart move, as the Ukraine War reinforces the importance of supply chains.www.navalnews.com
They are purpose built.
On a more serious note, there was a proposal in the Canadian Naval Review a couple of years ago to build a hybrid nuclear/AIP submarine for Canada using our own SLOWPOKE-2 reactor design to continuously recharge the batteries of a conventional submarine.
I dont know how you guys have things like that ready.
No but mine had glitched a few times with links to different threads.
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Assuming the UORs are buying the right equipment for enduring needs (no compromises for expediency or because it will never be used in Canada), you are still proposing a sole source contract. The system is highly resistant to such things. It tends to increase prices of the quantities purchased under sole-source.
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Hire more bureaucrats! That'll speed up the process....
Liberals promise to speed up regulatory process on critical minerals mines, green power projects
Ottawa plans to spend $1.3 billion over the next six years to improve the impact assessment process.nationalpost.com
This can be a big problem especially if the management does not understand what their business actually does. If the management is capable of taking on that work it is much easier to deal with turnover. Ive seen it with management chasing solutions to problems that were solved long ago and just wasting everyones time and at the end we are back where we started just in time for them to move onto another job/posting. The people left just go into survival mode and wait out the next guys term and churn.
The problem is the "say" ------ "do" gap. This government, and increasingly the entire PS have come to believe that saying something makes it so. All the energy is spent on finessing the "say".. No time or energy, little leader attention, and absolute no opposition or voter attention is paid to the do part of the equation.
AH corporate memory - tis a very good thing. Long serving corporals, sergeants and WOs are just that.
