Canada Navy Canada SSK program

[urban mine]

It’s unfortunate, but TKMS—or rather, Germany—won. As a Korean, I’m disappointed, but there’s nothing we can do about it. We’ll just have to do better next time.
As the Canadian prime minister said, there will surely be other areas for cooperation with Canada outside of the defense sector.

 

[TR_123456]

Also in that article Stephen Fuhr, Canada’s Secretary of State for Defence Procurement said the federal decision would ultimately “come down to cost, timeline and economic benefits to Canada.”

Can you explain this,how can the German deal be better then the South-Korean one?

 

[oldcpu]

Can you explain this,how can the German deal be better then the South-Korean one?

I don't know the details so I can't explain such. The Canadian PM stated the two were very close proposals. I assume (speculate) that means assessed pretty much overall mostly equal - so as to what were the deciding factors ? I can't say.

While I was hoping to see the South Korean KSS-III batch-II chosen, both boats are good, and it was IMHO a win-win for the Canadian navy no matter which boat the Canadian government chose IMHO.

Its now the German TKMS contract to lose, if they should fail in the upcoming negotiations with Canada.

 

[Nilgiri]

From my pessimistic ex-RCN friend:

It’s unfortunate, but the project goes on. Hopefully it’ll get cancelled before it destroys the rest of the defence budget in general and the RCN in particular.

1) single largest project in Canadian military history. Potential for massive blowouts on top of already budgeted cost.
2) the RCN would not know what to do with 12 submarines. They couldn’t figure it out with 4, which is why they normally operate with 3 of them tied up.
3) the RCN cannot even man the 4 they have now and that’s with 4 ships paid off and a lot of the rest running on minimum crew.
4) they can’t get effective help from the building nation, because they can’t keep their 4 submarines working either.

Hopefully this gets cancelled before the budgets blow out and can the surface fleet like the SSN project did in the 80’s. Unfortunately it’s a political project rather than a military one, and it’s unlikely to go away before it’s sponsoring government.