Canada to get up to 12 submarines.....

[Kapitan]

Rockstar: We also see the recruitment and retention problem in the US Navy & Australian Navy but the Aussies are looking at going big in the coming years with SSNs joining the fleet, the USN is getting better but they have large warships that are people hungry.

My chief concern isn't actually the USN but the MSC a lot of the ships are antique, and what is more they have issues in sea time and recruiting for the merchant marine.

The RFA of the UK their crews have just gone on strike which isn't good putting our already limited fleet at risk we also have gaping holes in capabilities right now too.

Canada is getting 2 new replenishment ships which are currently years behind schedule and way over budget and on top of this they are in a very expensive lease for MV Astrix which can only do half the functions of a dedicated auxiliary

Skybird: If they get 4 boats that's not enough as we already see currently, the problem with Canada is they have 3 coast lines and 2 fleets, the have 3 boats on the Pacific and only 1 on the Atlantic.

To be effective we need 6 boats minimum with a 3 and 3 split allowing at least 1 boat on station on each coast all the time using the 1-3 rotation rule.

Time will tell it wasn't all that long ago when they thought about disbanding submarines then the Victoria's came up cheap and it wouldn't be the first time Canada has disbanded submarines either.