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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 sourced firecontrol for their BAE guns ... I thought that useful so to better assess what options the Canadian navy could be considering in the still (IMHO)...

Following up on the speculative possibility that the Leonardo 127mm gun might be replaced with a much lighter BAE 5-inch gun (so to reduce the weight forward), I tried to dive into looking at what Fire Control radar might be chosen for the River Class destroyer as the Leonardo NA-30S may no...

i note Australia has only two of the Canberra class amphibious assault ship, and there is criticism of their availability. The Australian Navy's two largest ships 'systematically failing': Report reveals 'dysfunction' in country's Naval fleet Its difficult to keep one warship always...

Pondering this some more, while I like the idea of Canada having ships with ambibious assault capability, that could be useful for peacetime disaster relief, Arctic base support/staging, capability UN support operations, I believe it highly unlikely. Nominally to maintain one warship operation...

Just a confirmation of what South Korea has already claimed, where this news article notes a KSS-III-batch-1 recently completed a mission of about 7,000 km. Presumably the KSS-III-batch-2 range will be equivalent or superior.

Further, if weight is an issue (and hence potentially leading to consideration to instead procure the BAE 5-inch gun), it entails a different fire control radar than the NA-30S Mk2 as I am not aware of the NA-30S Mk2 ever having been used with a BAE 5-inch gun. I have read that both Saab CEROS...

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 thread): https://noahscornerofrandomstuff.substack.com/p/this-week-in-defence-very-tiny-edition (12/29/25) In it the claim is a BAE 5-inch gun may be chosen to...

Related to this topic, a couple of days ago, the press is reporting that the commander of the Royal Canadian Navy (Vice-Admiral Angus Topshee) has floated the idea of an ice-capable amphibious landing ship to move troops and equipment around the country’s Arctic — and perhaps elsewhere. For...

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 navy in regards to amphibious assault ship, I thought to dig further. Presumably such a ship could be useful not only for wartime , but also for disaster...

Yes, i agree there will be integration costs to integrate the NA-30S Mk2 firecontrol (for the 127mm Leonardo gun) to CMS-330. Having typed that, i think it as back in 2021, when the RCN changed from preferring the BAE 5-inch gun to the Leonardo 127mm gun. The decision was made then NOT to go...

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 submarine, will depend on industrial benefits to Canada. A recent South Korean new source (Seoul Economic Daily) is speculating that South Korea is lagging and now...

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, be very costly. Also, once one changes the 127mm gun (to for example the BAE 5") that also means a different firecontrol system/radar is needed. If one changes...

That would surprise me if true. I read the Canadian navy (via the prime contractor Lockheed Martin Canada) was planning to procure for each of the first batch of River Class the following equipment from Leonardo: * OTO 127/64 lightweight (LW) volcano system * quantity two Lioinfish 30/X 30mm...

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 Contract for the Legend-class was purportedly already cancelled prior to this recent decision for the Navy to procure a modification of these Coast Guard cutters...

According to gCaptain, the USN has been directed to go for a modified Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Legend-Class National Security Cutter design. That article claims: The WarZone also has an article on this.