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oldcpu replied to the thread Canada Navy Canada Surface Combatant (CSC) Program.I was unhappy with my earlier description as to how the RN Type-26 and the RAN Hunter Class frigates were planning to handle the radar... -
oldcpu replied to the thread Canada Navy Canada Surface Combatant (CSC) Program.Following up on the speculative possibility that the Leonardo 127mm gun might be replaced with a much lighter BAE 5-inch gun (so to...
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oldcpu replied to the thread Canada Two decades old Canadian Navy investigation into Amphibious Assault ships.i note Australia has only two of the Canberra class amphibious assault ship, and there is criticism of their availability. The...
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oldcpu replied to the thread Canada Two decades old Canadian Navy investigation into Amphibious Assault ships.Pondering this some more, while I like the idea of Canada having ships with ambibious assault capability, that could be useful for...
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oldcpu replied to the thread Canada Navy Canada SSK program.Just a confirmation of what South Korea has already claimed, where this news article notes a KSS-III-batch-1 recently completed a...
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oldcpu replied to the thread Canada Navy Canada Surface Combatant (CSC) Program.Further, if weight is an issue (and hence potentially leading to consideration to instead procure the BAE 5-inch gun), it entails a...
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oldcpu replied to the thread Canada Navy Canada Surface Combatant (CSC) Program.I note in regards to the BAE 5-inch gun and the River Class this more recent post (which came out AFTER the posts on this defencehub...
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oldcpu replied to the thread Canada Two decades old Canadian Navy investigation into Amphibious Assault ships.Related to this topic, a couple of days ago, the press is reporting that the commander of the Royal Canadian Navy (Vice-Admiral Angus...
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oldcpu posted the thread Canada Two decades old Canadian Navy investigation into Amphibious Assault ships in CA Navy.I have not been tracking a lot of Navy stuff, so after stumbling across some obscure references to a year 2006 activity by the Canadian...
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oldcpu replied to the thread Canada Navy Canada Surface Combatant (CSC) Program.Yes, i agree there will be integration costs to integrate the NA-30S Mk2 firecontrol (for the 127mm Leonardo gun) to CMS-330. Having...
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oldcpu replied to the thread Canada Navy Canada SSK program.What I have read suggests that the Canadian decision, as to whether choose a German Type-212CD or a South Korean KSS-III-batch-2...
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oldcpu replied to the thread Canada Navy Canada Surface Combatant (CSC) Program.Further to this, I note the initial CDR for the first 3 River Class was held some time back. To change selection now would, I suspect...
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oldcpu replied to the thread Canada Navy Canada Surface Combatant (CSC) Program.That would surprise me if true. I read the Canadian navy (via the prime contractor Lockheed Martin Canada) was planning to procure for...
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oldcpu replied to the thread USA USN cancels planned Constellation class.I am not convinced I fully understand all of what is transpiring here. This is not all that it seems (or is it) ?? The Coast Guard...
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oldcpu replied to the thread USA USN cancels planned Constellation class.According to gCaptain, the USN has been directed to go for a modified Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Legend-Class National Security...
