Recent content by Rainbow1910

That would be politically untenable for Canada and it does not change the reality of the situation, it would ironically make the situation worse with the retirement of the Victoria class, the loss of indigenous submarine operational capability, knowledge and its domestic infrastructure. None of...

Nuclear powered submarines are entirely a non-starter for Canada, no political party now or in the future is likely to sign us up for such a program due to the potential fallout. In order to properly set up the required infrastructure, knowledge base and actually procure the submarines, you are...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ghost-fleets-unmanned-warships-drones-artificial-intelligence-1.7200879 Unmanned systems coming up with regard to the CSC program again, interesting to see how the concept of an offboard magazine might evolve. Potentially useful for CSC in its initial limited...

https://breakingdefense.com/2024/05/canada-weighing-international-collaboration-on-future-subs/ Germany and Norway have apparently reached out to Canada regarding a partnership in their already joint Type 212CD submarine procurement.

AOPS was not designed to operate homeported far away from effectively all reasonable infrastructure, the Arctic is too underdeveloped and isolated to make such a concept work without considerable investment. Notable redundancies baked into the ships design would be required and personnel burnout...

I wouldn’t have such an issue with this if people didn’t take what he says as gospel, meaning whatever is said or not said tends to be taken as authoritative fact. Yet another source for AOPS misinfo to spread while not even giving the CCG the time of day in a video that rightly should have us...

I was notably unimpressed with that video, the typical Wikipedia sourced AOPS jabs we've been hearing for years alongside basically ignoring the huge CCG icebreaker fleet replacement plans. In a good hour long video on the Arctic, Canada's fleet got a whole roughly two minute spotlight with...

All five of them left lol.

Because the people who operate the vessels for the Maritime Security Enforcement Teams are........the Canadian Coast Guard. The enforcement is done by RCMP and DFO personnel aboard, this just gets back to the issues above about why the CCG doesn't want to deal with armed duties. It would be even...

I largely ignored his article when I read the CDR edition awhile ago, but I went back and looked at it. Yeah, it is about what you would expect. Whining about the government preselecting Irving as a shipyard makes little sense considering the fact that either Seaspan or Irving were going to be...

MEJ is as excellent as always, that article specifically looks to be one of the most detailed looks at the various pieces of equipment integrated into the CSC that we have seen in public thus far. I will quote some interesting information from the article for users here: This is likely why we...

To answer your question in a more relevant location, there is a few layers to the question. 1.) Operating a ship with a split crew between military and non-military/non-law enforcement organizations is a messy affair and would likely please neither party. 2.) The CCG does not want these...

I would expect by 2024, it should be well beaten into the heads of everybody here that AOPS are not combatants and thus are not armed like a combatant. AOPS is already a bit of a franken vessels as it is now design wise, it doesn't need to be a three way tug of war trying to arm it up with...

If the RCN can stick to the idea that Topshee discussed about strictly adhering to an off the shelf design, I could see a high end procurement of 8 boats in a perfect world. I would say 6 is more realistic when 4 being worse case without scrapping the fleet as a whole.

Portuguese Type 214 class submarine NRP Arpão recently did an under ice Arctic excursion in partnership with Denmark. https://espada-e-escudo.blogspot.com/2024/05/submarino-arpao-da-marinha-portuguesa.html