Posted on 09/08/2016 1:25:37 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
OTTAWA — The navy’s submarine fleet will have to be retired in the next decade unless the federal government opts to spend billions to upgrade the ships, according to Defence Department documents.
The documents show the first submarine, HMCS Victoria, is scheduled to reach its end of service life in 2022. The other three vessels will follow until the last, HMCS Windsor, retires in 2027.
The documents, released to the Canadian Press through the Access to Information Act, peg the cost of extending the lives of the submarines at between $1.5 billion and $3 billion, depending on how long the vessels remain in service and what technical upgrades are made.
They don’t specify when a decision needs to be made, but work needs to begin by 2020 to prevent a gap.
Military officials have recently praised the submarines. Royal Canadian Navy commander Vice-Admiral Ron Lloyd described the vessels in June as “essential” to the navy’s ability to protect the country and help NATO, an assessment that was echoed by defence chief Gen. Jonathan Vance.
“As Canadians, I think we want to know who’s operating on, above and below our water from a sovereignty perspective,” Lloyd said. “The one strategic asset that allows you to understand what’s operating below the water is a submarine. Nothing else can replace that.”
But any investment is likely to stoke controversy. The submarines have been plagued by technical problems since they were bought used from the United Kingdom in 1998 for what the Chrétien government described as a bargain $750 million.
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HMCS Victoria welcomed the public at an open house in 2013. Without upgrades, it will be the first to be scrapped. Photograph By ADRIAN LAM, Times Colonist
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The Navy just figure this out?
That thing is so small!..........
Run silent, run beep!
Our Poofter in Chief, Bustin Trux-d’eau, will hug his way around spending any money on the preserving these four subs, nor will he replace them.Thats why Canadas “offsure” is called an “international cooperation zone” instead of international boundary waters.
Justin Trudeau bends over to all as Canada’s surrender monkey in Chief, and has done photo ops at a mosque in British Colombia where he could not resist displaying himself bending over in submissive prayer, to the alleged one god and his profit, as Canada’s #1 dimmi.
No, Canada will not have any sub upgrades. Soon her military with only 100,000 active servicemen and women will be drilling with wooden rifles. You can’t expect much from the Trudeau government, that has restricted citizen purchase of the AR-15 semi automatic rifle.
It’s guns or butter time again.
Feed the socialist monkey or defend the country?
We aren't going to be able to do it.
Who knew Canada had any, I figured they gave us a few barrels of Maple syrup to patrol their waters.
I believe that Canada has a going retrofit business that takes diesel boats and installs an extension section that includes a nuclear batter. They should aggressively market their capabilities so that they become the go-to country for non-nuclear subs and thus spread the costs across more product to make their own Navy’s subs more affordable. I’ll bet Taiwan would buy a fleet.
The subs were lemons when the British owned them, they were lemons when the Canadians bought them, and they always will be lemons.
The Canadians need to buy German.
The Canadians don’t care. They know our people will use their hard-earned tax dollars to save them, while they give their own people free education and healthcare. Meanwhile our kids are saddled with $7000 deductibles and $150,000 dollar educational debts.
save us from what...the only foreign country to invade Canada was the USA...we fought in both world wars while you Yankees sat back and traded with the enemy...if it were not for the fact we live next door, we would be sacrificed in a heartbeat
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