By Moderator, 6 July 2026
The decision has been made! Prime Minister Carney announced today that the TKMS’s 212CD has won the competition to build the RCN’s next submarines. The German-Norwegian TKMS consortium will now advance to discussions on the building of up to 12 submarines. Both Hanwha and TKMS have been aggressively courting Canada with promises of money spent in the country, but it seems that relations and interoperability with a close NATO partner have won over the possibility of closer ties to an Asian country.
Image: Prime Minister Mark Carney announces TKMS as the preferred bidder for the Canadian Patrol Submarine Project on the flight deck of an Arctic Offshore Patrol Ship in Halifax on 6 July 2026. Credit: Mark J Carney's X account.
