Is 2 sailable 1980 era boats really a submarine capability? I think you'd grow a lot more actual skills and capability with a joint crewing model down here.
Range and speed of Virginia...
My point is that even if Canada jumps with both feet into AUKUS today - that it would take years to get a RCN crew able to fully crew a SSN. There are trades on those boats that have no Canadian equivalent - so you would need to crawl, walk, run into that sort...
No disagreement here.
Ack
Honestly my belief is that Canada would be better off joining AUKUS. However maybe a partial join, in that Canada shutters it’s Victoria’s and offers crew to the USN SSN’s?
With a vague goal of maybe potentially sometime in the undefined future could think a lot...
Cancelled was an odd word for that released by the PM Shop, more like not fully implemented.
Only about half the fleet will get upgraded to v4, (at this time) while the focus is on a E3 (which will be the A3 if accepted).
The X seems to be the ‘baseline’ concept for the E3, but the goals...
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