Canada takes step to acquire up to 12 submarines to guard Arctic
Canada takes step to acquire up to 12 submarines to guard Arctic
Canada, looking to shore up its defense of the Arctic, is moving ahead to acquire up to 12 submarines and has started a formal process to meet with manufacturers, the defense ministry said on Wednesday.
Whoa, meeting with manufacturers? We're getting new subs, not somebody else's obsolete garbage?
As far as I can tell the KSS-III class of subs from ROK would be the frontrunner. Last year Babcock, the company that provides maintenance for our current subs, signed a contract to cooperate on the deal with Hanwa Ocean. It's one of the best conventional subs, it has 6xVLS with the next block stretched and supposed to feature 10xVLS. Also, it's in production, which could mean relatively quick turnaround once they were ordered. The fact that it can deploy the Hyunmoo 4-4 ballistic missile is also a pretty big deal. If Canada were to be faced with a hypothetical scenario of a powerful belligerent dictatorship, stealthy submarines with ballistic missiles could provide interesting options for credible deterrence.
Maybe we're negotiating for a discount on refurbs, lol.
This usually means we're subsidizing Bombardier to spend a shitton of money and give us some non-working, high maintenance trash that's a poor copy of something that worked.
Isn’t “Canadian submarine” a sexual position?
US: spend more on defence
Canada:
US: not like this!
Why would the US not be happy about this? It takes us closer to our 2%, and guarding the Arctic is easily the most natural role for Canada to fill.
The new fleet of submarines will be conventionally powered and capable of operating under ice.
Um knowing nothing about Arctic logistics, I'm surprised at this. I thought they'd want nuclear powered. But maybe this is posturing before trying to get in on the aukus deal.