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I suspect current politics of the current US administration in terms of tariffs on Canada will make it increasingly difficult for Canada to proceed down the F-35 route for all 88-fighter aircraft. While the tariffs are not on the F-35 procurement, the surrounding US tariffs on other aspects of...

This thread has been quiet for a while, and the Halifax class frigates have gone through an update. I confess I was a bit curious about the Rheinmetall MASS (Multi Ammunition Softkill System) implementation on the Halifax Class frigate. I believe the MASS (generically) dependent on procurement...

Out of curiousity, I was comparing L3 Harris marketing PDFs for both the L3 Harris M2534 EOSS and the L3 Harris Mk20 (which is extensively used in the USN), and the descriptive 'specifications' are almost identical. I noticed a small difference in the M2534 'Medium Wave Infrared module' field of...

More on this topic of what might be the L3 Harris EOSS system provided. I was reading up on some RCN Halifax class information, and I believe that class of RCN frigate may have an older version of the L3 Harris M2534 EOSS. I think < albeit i am not certain > that L3 Harris may now have a newer...

I still have not changed my mind here, and I hope the RCN is able to find the funds to procure and install the Raven ECM system in batch-2 of the River Class 'if' the trials conducted of this ECM system, were sufficient to prove adequate functionality. I also assume such a system as Raven could...

I posted the above, to put this "Australian Naval Institute" article in perspective: an alternative AUKUS path. Nuclear propelled submarines are, IMHO, massive superior to conventional in terms of their range and capability to stay at sea, underwater. Conventional class submarines are more at...

I searched but found no update on this forum , discussing the Australian program to replace their current submarines. My understanding is that as of January 2026, Australia's program to replace its aging Collins-class diesel-electric submarines under the AUKUS Pillar 1 agreement remains firmly...

Some further speculation on this topic ... It is worth noting that a precedent for such an arctic capable LHD vessel already exists: France previously designed and built two "Arctic-hardened" Mistral-class ships, the Vladivostok and Sevastopol, for the Russian Navy. Although the sale was...

A minor point of curiosity for me, is will the Canadian River Class (type-26) , and to a lessor extent the Australian Hunter class (type-26) in their design, dedicate a small compartment near the main deck passage way hatch, for stowage of diving equipment for embarked, part-time, ship's divers...

Pondering this some more ... While L3Harris WESCAM was awarded a general Visual Surveillance System (VSS) contract in late 2025, the selection of the specific Electro-Optical Sensor System (EOSS) model for the River-class has not been announced and likely not yet publicly finalized. I...

More detail is coming out now in unclassified press, as to what this Constellation class replacement may look like: https://www.twz.com/sea/navys-new-frigate-program-makes-big-bet-on-containers-loaded-with-missiles This FF(X) class is an up gunned version of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Legend class...

Months have gone by and I have not seen any press release to indicate L3 Harris WESCOM with their EO/IR equipment is to be a subcontractor to MDA for the EOSS (as part of that noted $60-million contract). So I am still puzzling here as to more precisely as to what the $60M contract entails. I...

The news on the Canadian Submarine Project in the past couple of weeks has been pretty much focused on the competition between German TKMS and South Korean Hanwa Ocean and Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) in the subject area of proposed industrial offsets to Canada. On a slightly different, but...

I read the 32 cell on the internet, but when i dig further I believe that what I typed above is wrong. In fact the wiki on the Spanish F110 indicates a 16 cell Mk41 VLS. So that is smaller than the 24 cell VLS on the Canadian River class, and frankly that makes more sense from a forward...

If i typed BAE-5-inch heavier than Lenardo 127 mm LW, then that was a serious typo on my part. The BAE-5 inch is lighter. I took a quick skim through just now, and i could not spot my error - but regardless, my english language phrasing could be improved. So yes I definitely intended to...

I believe the under construction Spanish F110 frigates plan to also (like the Canadian River Class Destroyer) have the AN/SPY-7 radar (hence possibly similar upper weight), and both the Spanish F110 and the Canadian River Class plan to have a Mk41 VLS forward and a Leonardo 127 LW Volcano gun...

A few weeks have gone by and there is still nothing firm to support the speculation that the Leonardo 127mm gun could be swapped out for a BAE gun. I do note going back five years, Leonardo announced they had received a contract to provide three 127mm Leonardo guns, one each for the first three...

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...