By David Dunlop, 18 June 2022 The Canadian Surface Combatant SPY-7 Radar has earned official government of Canada designation. Lockheed Martin’s advanced SPY-7 radar received its Government of Canada official […]
By Dan Middlemiss, 6 June 2022 Notwithstanding Ottawa’s stated intention to focus more on Canadian defence, delivery schedules for several major procurement programs have not been accelerated as a result […]
By David Dunlop, 4 June 2022 The president of Irving shipyard, Kevin Mooney, says it is on schedule to cut steel for the future CSC Frigate project in two years. […]
By David Dunlop, 11 May 2022 Here is a report from Global News on possible defence and foreign policy changes for Canada coming soon. Canada’s Defence Minister Anita Anand signalled changes […]
By José Cañadas M, 5 May 2022 On May 4th, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute published a 48-page report by Marcus Hellyer about the pricing of military equipment. There are […]
By Dr. Rob Huebert, 20 April 2022 The ramifications of the sinking of Moskva on April 13 will be felt for a long time. This is the first sinking of […]
By Dan Middlemiss, 5 April 2022 In December 2021, defence analyst Richard Shimooka published a very intriguing study of the ongoing Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC) procurement process.1 This publication has […]
By Mikael Perron, 1 April 2022 I was reading a status report of the Daring-class destroyer and looking at the pictures, and I realised how well the Canadian Surface Combatant […]
Ted Barnes, 5 March 2022 The government and RCN just released a new CSC graphic confirming 24 VLS vice 32 originally planned and the addition of the new mast accommodating […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 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 […]
By David Dunlop, 26 October 2021 The latest issue of the Maritime Engineering Journal (MEJ) contains a featured article on the new Land Based Test Capability (LBTC) facility at Hartlen Point for […]
By Mikaël Perron, 7 October 2021 There are two pages on the Lockheed Martin Canada’s website that display a new CG version of the CSC. https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-ca/index.html https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-ca/canadian-programs.html The new CG pictures […]
By Procrustes, 11 August 2021 In another of its Defence Deconstructed podcast series, the Canadian Global Affairs Institute produced an interesting ‘Deep Dive of the Canadian Surface Combatant’ on 23 […]
David Dunlop, 14 July 2021 At the end of June, Prince William cut the first steel on HMS Belfast, the third ship in an eight-ship BAE Type 26 build. Belfast is […]