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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
CNR Fan, 21 December 2021. According to The Canadian Press, the Defence Department’s top procurement official is warning of new delays in the delivery of already overdue warships and other […]
By Dr. Dan Middlemiss, 19 December 2021 Shortly before the current sitting of the House of Commons is about to adjourn, the Prime Minister issued his Mandate Letters to his […]
By Dr. Dan Middlemiss, 16 December 2021 Over the past decade or so, the international geostrategic environment has undergone a major seismic shift for the first time since the end […]
CNR Fan, 16 December 2021. According to The Canadian Press, the federal government’s plan to build new ships for Canada’s navy and coast guard has been impacted by more skyrocketing […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 8 December 2021 Government agencies in both Canada and the United States have both acknowledged publicly for the first time that they are targeting the hackers […]
RCN Public Affairs, 06 December 2021 Early in the morning of November 18, while deployed on Op Reassurance off the coast of Norway, a fire occurred in the forward engine room of […]
RCN Public Affairs, 06 December 2021 HMCS Winnipeg, currently deployed to the Asia-Pacific region on Operation Projection, participated in an annual exercise in the Philippine Sea from November 21-30. In addition to the […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 2 December 2021 Both Russia and China have been hard at work developing and now testing hypersonic weapons. They both claim success in their recent tests. […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 28 November 2021 And then there were two! The Department of National Defence and Public Services and Procurement Canada, which are managing the competition to find […]
By Timothy Choi, 19 November 2021 Earlier this week, my fellow CNR colleague Dr. Dan Middlemiss published some thoughts on a latest report on the Australian Hunter class frigate program […]
By Dr. Dan Middlemiss, 15 November 2021 Earlier this month, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) published a Special Report dealing with Australia’s equivalent of Canada’s National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSS).1 […]
RCN Public Affairs, 09 November 2021. The Project Management Office for the Joint Support Ship participated in a successful in-water Factory Acceptance Test for the first of four Sea-to-Shore Connector […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 8 November 2021 Canadian submarines keep ticking along — and they will have to for a few more years. The government has initiated a study to […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 5 November 2021 Madam Justice Louise Arbour has issued some preliminary recommendations as she looks into sexual misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces. She supports the […]
