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Everyone is bitching that these things don’t have enough firepower not realizing that they are supposed to be lightly armed. These are patrol vessels, not warships. Canada isn’t a major power and isn’t gonna act like it. These are to patrol the arctic and northwest passage as it opens up more and more because of climate change. Think of them like police cars. Are police cars heavily armoured? Do they carry a heavy machine gun? Do they have bullet proof glass? Are they explosive resistant? No. They do light work and if they get into trouble, they call for help. If any country attacks any of these vessels, they will enact the wrath of the United States military and the rest of NATO. These are untouchable to Russia and China in the arctic. They will do their job which is to operate in freezing conditions and keep an eye on Canadian territory and show that there is a Canadian military presence in the area.

Forgot to mention that the bow deck is completely enclosed, so the sailors working on it won't be freezing their asses off under the arctic conditions they will be operating under, including during storms.

Pick FREMM design to speed up the process, then let NAVSEA toss that out and start from scratch?

First time I learn Israel has submarines lol

It's a good start but there's a lot more to be done. We Canadians need to get to AT LEAST 2% both to respect our allies but also to actually protect our own territory. We have a lot of territory to protect. We can do better with out defence spending. A lot better.

computer generated wonky syntax is annoying. not sure what a single 25mm auto gun plans on going against, but it won't be a russian or chinese warship for sure.

HAHA no they wont. They lack full year arctic capabilities. there also task loaded to begin taking on operations from ships going down.

By the way Procurement works in Canada and how minds change more than we change our shoes. The Canadian Federal government changes their mind based on poltics not common sense. Look at the EH101 military helicopter procurement and the F-35? It took almost 20 years with all the helicopter cancellations and 10+ years with the F-35, with Trudeau cancelling it, then re-ordering it? No one can make a decision and stick to it! Brian Mulroney was Prime Minister back in the 1990's when we first ordered the EH101 hellicoptor ! Then it was cancelled by PM Jean Chretien. So based on the past. We will be lucky to see anything until 2100! - Politicians are to blame for the lack of modern equipment in the Canadian military or Coast Guard has currently. The men and women in uniform only use what they are given. It's not like they have an online catalog or Amazon to order, Coast Guard Patrol boats, jet fighters and submarines!

Someone needs to held accountable, relieved, retired at their previous rank. Enough already with the clown show called Navy Ship Construction Programs.

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No. No they won't.

I had hoped the Navy would procure HII'S Patrol Frigate 4923 design. Changes already factored in, common hull, parent design in production, and from a US shipbuilder to boot. But nope, let's FUBAR another design.

The Norwegians built theirs for 1/4 the cost...

The US government needs to take full control of ship building from industry. They are jerking around with our time and money and it directly impacts our national security.

A shameful act for western

I agree smile see no teeth

45 سال تحریم های جهانی از طرف دلقک های آمریکایی و بقیه ولی با تکیه به صنعت بومی به پیشرفت ادامه می دهیم

Why tf 'the Dakar Class'????

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Sort of pointless choosing an existing, serving platform if you're going to morph it into something else. Maybe, the USN missed the boat by not choosing the Type 26 that the UK, Canada and Australia are now building, each country applying their custom requirements.

Existing design transforms to new design.

Why is the US Navy not following what the USAF in the late '50s when it adopted the English Electric Canberra? The USAF only asked for mods to the engine, the bomb bay doors and the cockpit and Martin (who built the Canberra as the B-26) did it. Heck, one can swap wings between a B-26 and the OG EE version.

Is Boeing and NASA involved in this ?

One would think that with LCS still fresh in everyone's mind this problems would have been averted.

You may not realise it, but many Germans are jewish, and in general white Europeans are descendants of the ten lost tribes. Europe, the U.S. and Israël is a power block defending against the bad guys

Thank you to those who have zero knowledge….thanks for sharing your stupidity

Still waiting on hull 1,the whole point of bringing back frigates into our fleet was supposed to be they were cheaper and faster to build over our destroyers

“Let’s build a ship based on a mature tried-and-tested design, even we can’t screw that up.” 4 years later “We’re not finished with the design.” You can’t make this up. 🤦🏼‍♂️

The USN is turning this Frigate into another LCS nightmare. They never learn.

All that for the Palestinians ??

The irony. In the 1990s the DND proposed the creation of an Arctic fleet with submarines that could patrol the arctic by sailing underneath the arctic ice, this was slashed by Brian Mulroney as too expensive and unnecessary. Here we are in 2020s and now they agree there's a requirement for a fleet of ships to patrol the arctic but they still don't how to get it right.

Canada should have heavy idea breaker class destroyers, which is what Harper promised us and then never delivered on in the early 2000’s when he came to power Ffs

What are they doing?….. it just never ends……

Then stop the houthie ankle biters.

And how many tax dollars did we lose outsourcing these ship to Italy? Remember, if project isn't built in the US all we get is the ship and not the increase in our GDP through domestic spending.

Broaden his sight of the world priority list of:

Well that's not a surprise the Navy vet likes to make everything way too big that's the American Navy personally it's a frigate it should only be ram at 4000 tons destroyers should be around 8000 tons And a cruiser should be 10,000 tons. I'm one of these days I might sing you guys my article the U s Navy like ships way too damn big 😂 😂I'm between sci fi short story.

Sounds like China and Russia are running the US Navy.

Need to build the faster turn around off the shelf fincantieri 85 15 common till the new redesigned hull is ready then start building the required 12 on top of some extra off the shelf interim bonus hulls that can probably be passed on to a poorer ally or be saved in mothball for mass mobilization.

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Wow. This was a quick acquisition program from 2017!

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I think with only 15% in common, the mother design actually become a "restriction" rather than a solid based design to save time. And such restriction may actually be the reason for the design to be so difficult. It is either who select the FREMM design should be accountable (apparently that design doesn't fit NAVY's requirement at all which results in so much change to be required) or NAVSEA should be accountable for keep adding stupid modification requirement that ruin the entire process. Suprise that the NAVY keep "losing confidence" on many ship CO/XO but not a single general who create so much mess like this get fired.

*i as the ex n.j.r.o.t.c. cadet and the cold war ex active duty u.s. army 11B10 infantryman am disillusioned partly due to the following: the navy with the others branches continue to prove themselves along with everyone indirectly and directly are those that must be keep in check by ensuring that their deeds are thoroughly scrutinized due to a lot of ulterior motives with unexpected delays especially the intentional delays to protect the untrustworthy* - 7:03 pm pacific daylight savings time on wednesday, 3 july 2024 leap year

*there are numerous legitimate critics of the entire military from the those with every project to the top of the chain of command all the way to the commander in chief with the military industrial complex with the unelected officials and elected officials with everybody connected indirectly and directly are partially responsible for what goes wrong. people like the retired military and retired elected official Barry Morris Goldwater Senior rightfully cancelled military projects that proved to waste the money of taxpayers, thus, the official and black budgets need forensic audits to ensure that there is a small chance of wasting money. the united states of america as per justified critics continue to reveal the evil deeds and the evil people that is how the united states of america is losing its integrity - some of my ex military associates have given impressions of evil under the guise of being good. everyone must study the works of Smedley Darlington Butler (1881 - 1940), Howard Zinn (1920 - 2010), Ron Kovic (Thursday, 4 July 1946 - alive) with numerous others* - 6:56 pm pacific daylight savings time on wednesday, 3 july 2024 leap year

We're spending all that money to have three and eventually five 25mm cannons in the arctic. Not even artillery, AAA guns to protect the Ships. And only one, so you come from both sides and one gets through. I read the comments, the Helicopter is the offensive weapon, but that only works in certain weather conditions. Occupying the arctic is easy enough, just develop a CanAmerican Moon Base Training Facility, these guys need to always have their suits on when outside. Develop vehicles that work well in that environment.... Show the Russians and Chinese you don't need to be aggressive or defensive all the time.

Better subcontract to S. Korea

Don't worry everyone!!! We just bought number 6 even though we have NO FREAKING CLUE if this ship will work out right or not!! 😁

When a FREMM isn't really a FREMM, the USN will build it.

When do we get to admit we have some serious, structural problems? After we lose?