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By David Dunlop, 18 January 2022 The Lockheed Martin Canada web page is showing a top-view of the CSC design (seen above). Recent computer graphics of the CSC frigate on the LM website seem to bear out the recent changes to the CSC design. Notice that the 32 MK 41 VLS […]
By David Dunlop, 15 January 2022 On 14 January, the Department of National Defence announced that Canada has just awarded the contract to begin work on the land-based testing facility for the CSC Frigate in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. See details at “Contract awarded to begin design work for Land-Based Testing […]
By Roderick Steckhahn, 14 January 2022 A Mistral-class ship would assert the RCN’s capability to perform amphibious assaults, withdrawals, demonstrations and raids. This would allow it to further integrate into the doctrinal frameworks described by NATO’s Allied Tactical Publication 8B (ATP8) and the European Amphibious Initiative. While air capabilities are […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 11 January 2022 Here we are in 2022, and now suffering through the fifth wave of the never-ending pandemic. But we take heart that the end is (hopefully) near, and we continue to produce new issues of Canadian Naval Review. The show must go on. I’m […]
By Roger Cyr, OMM, CD, 11 January 2022 The federal government is planning to build 15 new frigates, the British Type 26. This is good news since the navy estimates that the present frigates are nearing the end of their operational life. However, according to a report released in December […]
Credit: Lindsay Isaac and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN, 06 January 2022 According to CNN, a Russian submarine being tracked by a British naval warship on patrol in the North Atlantic more than a year ago hit a sonar the ship was towing, as stated by the UK Ministry of Defence. "In […]
By David Dunlop, 3 January 2022 Here is an article reported by the Canadian Press (CP). In an interview with CP on 29 December 2021, the Commander of the RCN, Vice-Admiral Craig Baines, described the Halifax-class frigates as "starting to show their age with replacements years away". According to Vice-Admiral […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 29 December 2021 The Naval Association of Canada has produced another useful and interesting addition to its Briefing Notes. BN#42 is about damage control. What does that mean? Well, good thing you asked. According to the BN, “[d]amage control pertains to the category of unfortunate events […]
Mikaël Perron, 27 December 2021 Our conversation here in Broadsides about the flaws of the CSC program took us very far on some interesting Ideas. It led to David Dunlop suggesting that Canada should only build 12 CSC and rapidly build 4 Arleigh-Burke-class destroyers ahead of the CSC to get […]
By Vice-Admiral (Ret'd) Nigel Brodeur, 22 December 2021[1] Note: This paper was written in 2010 but I am deeply concerned in 2021 that the government is continuing to disregard many serious and longstanding defence deficiencies, and thereby is weakening not only Canada’s ability to influence international affairs, but also weakening […]