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By Jeff G. Gilmour, 2 September 2024 It was recently disclosed that Russia appears to be working on a nuclear weapon in orbit that could knock out our satellite systems […]
By Dan Middlemiss, 30 August 2024 Recently the US Department of Defense (DoD) released the latest in a series of documents dealing with its Arctic strategy. Accomplished without much fanfare, […]
By Dan Middlemiss, 26 August 2024 Consider the following: “…To further set the stage, we all recognize the death spiral that the Navy is in. As we try to make […]
By Dan Middlemiss, 20 August 2024 It was not many years ago when some in this Forum were holding out hope for the next ‘magic bullet’ for Canadian warships, and […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 15 August 2024 Lessons from Australian Naval Procurement Dr. Ann Griffiths I don’t know about you, but I get a bit envious when I look at […]
By David Dunlop, 7 August 2024 The CSC class name has now been decided – the River class. This class of ship will be named after major Canadian rivers. The […]
By Jeff G. Gilmour, 5 August 2024 As noted in a recent article in The Economist magazine, the character of warfare is about to be profoundly changed by artificial intelligence (AI).1 In […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 2 August 2024 In the face of severe personnel shortages, the RCN launched the Naval Experience Program (NEP) at the end of March 2023. It aimed […]
By Mikael Perron, 24 July 2024 In terms of organisation, how could the Vigilance-class fit the RCN? First, the Kingston-class was originally supposed to be operated by the Naval Reserve […]
By Mikael Perron, 22 July 2024 Following my previous post about the Vigilance-class, let’s now take a closer look at Flight II. It is quite interesting that there is such […]
By Mikael Perron, 20 July 2024 There were a lot of comments on the post concerning the Vigilance-class design. There were legitimate concerns and questions that remain unanswered. In the […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 19 July 2024 History is being made. Today General Jennie Carignan took over command of the Canadian Armed Forces as Canada’s first female Chief of the […]
By Dan Middlemiss, 11 July 2024 At the NATO Summit in Washington, MND Bill Blair announced early plans to proceed with a project to replace the navy’s current submarine fleet.[1] […]
By Jeff G. Gilmour The purpose here is to show the projected costs of capital equipment for DND over a 20- to 25-year lifespan based on the existing proposed budget […]
By Mikael Perron, 3 July 2024 You probably learned like me that the CSC program has become the new River class destroyer and that is a great news! I was […]
By David Dunlop, 23 June 2024 The construction of Australia’s future Hunter-class of frigates took a significant step forward today, when BAE Systems cut steel on the first of six vessels […]
By Dan Middlemiss, 19 June 2024 At the request of the Commander of Joint Operations Command and the head of the Canadian Navy, Minister of National Defence (MND) Bill Blair […]
By Alex S., 16 June 2024 A few days ago, Vard Marine led Team Vigilance posted an updated version of their pitch for the (yet to be funded) Kingston-class replacement […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 12 June 2024 This is a second installment about my trip – sponsored by SAAB – to Sweden in May. In my previous post I discussed […]
By David Dunlop, 4 June 2024 At CANSEC 2024 SeaSpan Shipyard presented its cutting edge design for Canada’s New Polar Class 2 Heavy Ice Breaker project. Also, in another development, […]
