Contract awarded to Irving Shipbuilding for new RCN ships

Donoreo

The Government of Canada has awarded Irving Shipbuilding a $8 billion initial contract to build three River-Class destroyers for the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN). This contract is part of the National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSS). It will support the construction and delivery of the initial three ships, and necessary training, spares, and maintenance products. The project is expected to create or maintain 5,250 jobs annually and contribute $719.3 million annually to Canada’s gross domestic product (GDP) over the 2025-2039 period.

Since we are behind the British and Australians, kinks and bugs with the base Type 26 design may be worked out before ours are built.

https://canadiandefencereview.com/irving-shipbuilding-awarded-8-billion-initial-contract-to-build-3-river-class-destroyers-for-rcn/

ElQuintron

I’ll say the same thing I said at the old place. Too bad it’s Irving, but other than that, we need locally sourced military hardware.

MichelR

ElQuintron we need locally sourced military hardware.

Local or European, depending on availability of expertise. Time to cut some ties with you-know-you.

Donoreo

ElQuintron Too bad it’s Irving

Other choice? Seaspan? They got the ROE ships.

HELLFIRE

“We’ll See,” as the saying goes.

News last year out of the USA’s own “off-the-shelf” FFG-62 / Constellation program is – to put it mildly – going up the creek without a paddle – https://www.twz.com/sea/navys-new-constellation-class-frigate-is-a-mess

… New details about weight growth, design instability, and other issues with the Constellation class frigate came in a report the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), a Congressional watchdog, published yesterday. Just last week, the Navy awarded a new contract to Fincantieri Marinette Marine, valued at just over $1.04 billion, for another two of the frigates. The service now has six Constellations on order, the first of which is currently under construction. At the same time, the Navy has already confirmed that it now the first Constellation class frigate may not be delivered until 2029, three years behind schedule. This would also be around nine years after Fincantieri Marinette Marine received its initial contract for the frigates and some seven years after the start of construction of the USS Constellation. As another data point about the current state of the initial Constellation class ship, “the Navy reported that, as of September 2023, the shipbuilder had completed construction of only 3.6 percent of the lead ship as compared to the 35.5 percent it was scheduled to have completed by that point,” GAO reported. …

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