RCN Ships on a Roll
By Moderator, 11 September 2024
It’s easy to get discouraged about the RCN. There are continuing personnel shortages, it takes forever to get new ships, and meanwhile the existing ships get older and older. But if that’s a glass half-empty view, there’s also the glass half-full view. If you read the latest edition of “Our Navy Today,” you’ll see that, despite our gloom and doom, RCN ships have been very active lately. In case you didn’t know, here’s what RCN ships have been doing recently.
HMCS Vancouver, HMCS Max Bernays and MV Asterix all participated in RIMPAC 2024. At RIMPAC, Vancouver participated in a surface-to-air missile-firing exercise, using an Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile, to shoot down a US Navy drone missile. At RIMPAC, Max Bernays embarked an allied helicopter, certifying this crucial capability. Its participation was briefly interrupted by mechanical issues, but the ship was able to rejoin the exercise. Also at RIMPAC, MV Asterix set new records with 34 replenishments at sea, and hosted joint drills with US and South Korean Special Forces.
Meanwhile, HMCS Charlottetown took over as the flagship of Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 (SNMG2) in July and continues duties as part of Operation Reassurance. HMCS Shawinigan and HMCS Glace Bay departed in mid-July for a four-month deployment in the Baltic Sea as part of Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1 under Operation Reassurance. Aside from surveillance, monitoring and diplomatic engagement, the ships will participate in NATO exercises alongside NATO allies, in particular focusing on ordnance disposal operations in the Baltic and North Seas.
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Volume 20, Number 1 (2024)
This spring issue marks 20 years of producing Canadian Naval Review. How time flies! It seems like just yesterday we started this journey – but it’s been 20 years and we still haven’t run out of interesting things to discuss in CNR. We’re a bit biased, but we think this issue is another great one. Prepare to be amazed and delighted!
In this issue, we’re very pleased to present an interview with Rear-Admiral Josée Kurtz that took place at the end of January. CNR Editor Ann Griffiths sat down and had a great chat with the Admiral, discussing everything from budgets to RCN priorities to personnel to assets to tampons in the men’s washrooms.
Our first article, “A Case Study on the Creation and Use of a Bridge Simulator,” is an inspiring story about what you can do if you have the determination, energy and enthusiasm to do it. Read this and you can learn about building your own simulated bridge simulator for $30,000! This article goes well with the Editorial for this issue which is also about bridge simulators. Our next article is a nod to the 100th birthday of the RCAF, entitled “The Influence of the RCAF on the RCN (Air Branch).” The article examines the historic interaction – which was not always amicable – and development of the relations between the RCN and RCAF.
In this issue we also have a smorgasbord of tasty Making Wave commentaries. We learn about: RCN recruitment and suggestions for its improvement; how utilizing uncrewed vehicles may be more challenging for Canada than for other countries; the problems of procurement; a suggestion that Canada should join the AUKUS submarine deal; and the future prospects of naval task groups as the CSCs are built. As well, we have our usual columns. We know what Russia is doing in its West (i.e., invading/attacking Ukraine!), but what about the territories on its Pacific coast? And we learn that, despite recent news of some extra funding for the military, Canada is nonetheless in NATO’s ‘quadrant of shame.’
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