By Dan Middlemiss, 3 July 2025 There has been a flurry of interest of late in the prospect of the navy acquiring corvette-sized warships to augment the currently planned RCN […]
By Ted Barnes, 27 June 2025 Modern warship construction is as much about precision and efficiency as it is about steel and rivets. The recent opening of the Janet Harvey […]
By Jeff G. Gilmour On 9 June 2025 Prime Minister Carney announced Canada will reach NATO’s defence spending benchmark of 2% of GDP this fiscal year and upping this year’s […]
By Alec Rembowski, 13 June 2025 The war in Ukraine is proving to be the testing grounds for revolutionary new technologies and techniques for conducting warfare moving into the second […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 13 June 2025 A few days ago Prime Minister Mark Carney made a major announcement about defence. It was a good speech, made by a serious […]
By Moderator, 11 June 2025 It seems like a long time ago that the Harper government announced the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy (NSPS) – and indeed it was 15 years […]
By Ted Barnes, 4 June 2025 As the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) confronts a restructuring of its future fleet, the Kingston-class Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels (MCDVs) are facing early decommissioning. […]
By David Prior, 2 June 2025 A new Russian fleet under construction is being built with monolithic fiberglass cloth and epoxy resin-infusion. In Lunenburg, NS, aerospace components are being manufactured […]
By David Dunlop, 28 May 2025 The Lockheed Martin/MDA Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) land-based TPY-6 is based in the LM SPY 7 Radar Technology and is a massive undertaking […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 19 May 2025 David Joseph McGuinty is now the Minister of National Defence. He is a lawyer and has served as the member of Parliament for […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 15 May 2025 Preview Canadian Naval Review Vol. 21, No. 1 (2025) I know the weather is getting better, but we’ll still have rainy days and […]
By Moderator, 7 May 2025 In case you’re wondering …. An update to the Type 26 program given in the British Parliament indicated that five of the eight planned frigates […]
By Blair Shaw, 23 April 2025 The UK is about to embark on its second Indo-Pacific deployment called CSG25. Among the fleet joining the lead ship – the aircraft carrier […]
By David Morse, 15 April 2025 A new class of frigates for the French navy FDI (Frégate de defense et d’intervention) brings an interesting and new approach to the asymmetric […]
By Barnacle Bill, 15 April 2025 In recent weeks concerns have been raised across the Western world (and beyond) over the Trump administration’s foreign policy. The President has publicly rehabilitated […]
By Ted Barnes, 7 April 2025 A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece about some ideas of possibly speeding up the River-class destroyer (RCD) build as, in my opinion, […]
By Peter M. Sanderson, 2 April 2025 1. Arctic Sovereignty Bases. The Inuit (the people) live in four homelands (nunas), map #1 below (Credit: Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami via Statistics Canada). […]
By Moderator, 24 March 2025 In case you didn’t see them, there were two interesting articles about procurement published last week. One was written by Ian Mack and published by […]
By Jeff G. Gilmour, 16 March 2025 The purpose of this post is to argue that there seems to be no reality associated with the projected budget costs for various […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 12 March 2025 Personnel shortages have plagued the RCN for years. It’s not just a problem in Canada, the same problem has affected other navies, including […]
