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On the topic of potential crew exchanges .. Some of the news articles on the Type-212CD class of submarine, are making very vague references, that if Canada would procure this class of submarine, it would open up exchange postings for the countrys to put sailors in each other's submarine. For...

There may be better links, but I note this US document about foreign sales in regards to the Canadian Navy plans for procurement for the River Class destroyer. Some extracts:

While I believe the Canadian decision, as to which submarine will be chosen, now depends on industrial benefits, and no longer on submarine capabilities, I am, never the less, learning more about some speculated differences between the South Korean KSS-III-batch-2 and the German TKMS-Type-212CD...

A 27-Nov-2025, South Korean news source stating "multiple industry sources" as their 'reference', (without naming the sources) ... claims the following: ... I only quoted part of the article The article notes at the end: ... I note again that the South Korean "multiple industry sources"...

IMHO this is good news for Sweden, where Sweden has two of the Blekinge-class submarine (also known as SAAB A-26) being built for the Swedish Navy. If Poland goes through with an order of quantity 3 submarines, by simply increasing the quantity of numbers (2 (Sweden) + 3 (Poland)) it could...

Taking a look at this another way, .... can Canada afford to train and maintain over the full life cycle, two different types of cruise missiles? ie... One missile type for the River Class Destroyer (Tomahawk) and one completely different missile type for the KSS-III-batch-2 (if chosen, and...

I was curious about this and dug a bit deeper. From what i can read, the issue (for any Canadian consideration of the surface launch version of the submarine launched Chonryong SLCM,, with the surface launched Hyunmoo-3 , might be the adapter needed in a Mk41 on a River Class Destroyer and not...

I agree when River Class Destroyer contract approved with Mk 41 VLS, that Hyunmoo-3 was never a consideration. The Mk41 VLS chosen was noted to have the dimensions necessary to support Tomahawk. However I will repeat, and as noted, an export licence has not yet (to best of my knowledge)...

Hello DAVEBLOGGINS I donot believe USA has approved yet export license to Canada for Tomahawk cruise missile. Will there be a political price for a Tomahawk buy from USA? Will an approval of Tomahawk, even if given now, change tomorrow , based on the side of the bed the USA POTUS gets...

Subject: If Canada picks KSS-III for CPSP, should Canadian River-class Destroyer project consider possibility to integrate Hyunmoo-3 instead of the USA Tomahawk in River Class destroyer? Possibly this speculation of mine could be better posted instead under the Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC)...

A 25-Sep-2025 Press release by MDA noted that MDA was selected to contribute to Canada's space situation awareness: https://mda.space/article/mda-space-selected-to-deliver-enhanced-space-situational-awareness-data-services-to-canadian-department-of-national-defence The article is a bit vague...

No surprise, given both Canada and UK are likely adopting a similar system for their Type-26 class warships. https://www.navalnews.com/event-news/indo-pacific-2025/2025/11/ultra-maritime-provides-next-generation-torpedo-defense-to-australias-hunter-class-frigates/

I note the following link on REPMUS 2025 exercise, with some information on payloads tested with the CAMCOPTER S-100 https://arete.com/news-article/arete-demos-next-gen-maritime-capabilities/ Some extracts from that article: ... and another artcle...

Here is another video on the Lionfish 30mm gun: A lot of the video depicts other (heavier calibre) Leonardo guns (such as the 127mm vulcano gun) and not just the 30-mm Lionfish gun. The audio thou is dedicated to the 30-mm Lionfish. However the video does have some good clips of the 30mm...

This is old news, and the selection of Schiebel has been noted elsewhere (albeit Schiebel themselves ONLY announced this on 10-September). I did not go looking for this until today which is why I did not post earlier. On 10-Sep-2025, Schiebel put out a press release (link to PDF here). Some...

Naval-news has a recent article on the Lionfish 30mm gun: LEONARDO Unveils Lionfish 30 Turret at Sea Future 2025 The article also links to this youtube video 30mm Lionfish gun : My understanding is the Canadian navy plans to procure 2 of these guns (one port, one starboard) for each of the...

A number of news reports, have posted on L3 Harris being awarded a contract for VSS, which I missed until earlier today: and Both articles more or less say the same thing, albeit with different titles, and some text wording differences. Below is clipped/mixed from both articles (and not a...

I have not read much about the River Class Destroyer as of late, and so I was a bit curious as to what was transpiring on the project. So I spent some minutes and skimmed/searched through the US Department of War contract site for any Foreign Military Sales that might be relevant to the River...

I have been puzzling for the past few months over this June-2025 MDA announcement that I posted about back in June-2025: https://mda.space/article/mda-space-awarded-60-million-for-next-phase-of-river-class-destroyer In it the article states: I am trying to pin down what these two critical...

A key factor in the submarines Canada is considering is their AIP systems, which gives them a massive jump in capability over the old Victoria class. I took a stab at comparing the AIP in the Hanwha KSS-III Batch-II to that of the AIP in the TKMS Type 212CD. I knew very little about this to...