Canadian submarine returns to port again. Buyers remorse anybody?

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After having to pull in to an American port, and later returned to Halifax after suffering a battery failure in March, HMCS Windsor is back in port with a problem with one of her diesels.

The old Upholder class subs Canada bought from the UK way back have been in dry dock longer then they have touched salt water. I don't know about the rest of my countrymen but I for one am suffering buyers remorse. I am sick of seeing the government poor more and more money into subs which are nearing the end of their service life and have proven to be unreliable, and the fact the navy hasn't even planned a replacement makes me even sicker.

Can I ask you guys why is it that a first world country, in fact the second largest country in the world has a smaller and less capable submarine force then countries like Iran and Vietnam? Can I ask this double when you consider that we are the country located smack dab between two major rivalling superpowers that put a lot of money into their navy? We hear all the warnings that russia is putting more subs to sea, and I bet that the canadian government has absolutely no clue how many of them are sitting in our arctic waters right now.

We need to upgrade our submarine force. We need to do like Australia did and put the word out there that we are looking. Open up the market for shipyards, foreign and domestic, to produce us with designs for a new SSK or even an SSN that can defend our coasts, pacific, atlantic, and arctic. Because when your the guy stuck between two big guys looking to fight, you better know how to punch. Otherwise when the punches start flying, your the one getting hurt most....