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According to several news reports, Canada chose Thyssen-Krupp Marine Systems' U 212CD as their new submarine.

TKMS beat South Koeea‘s Hanwha in the bid for the submarine procurement contract.

The conteact has a volume of 100 billion CAN$ or 62 billion Euros, and also includes massive investment by TKMS and the German government into maintenance and torpedo and anti-torpedo construction facilities in Canada, as well as expansion of the harbor facilities in Churchill and a carbon capturing plant based on TKMS technologies in Alberta.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/submar ... -9.7259709

It’s unfortunate, but the project goes on. Hopefully it’ll get cancelled before it destroys the rest of the defence budget in general and the RCN in particular.

Can you elaborate?

1) single largest project in Canadian military history. Potential for massive blowouts on top of already budgeted cost.
2) the RCN would not know what to do with 12 submarines. They couldn’t figure it out with 4, which is why they normally operate with 3 of them tied up.
3) the RCN cannot even man the 4 they have now and that’s with 4 ships paid off and a lot of the rest running on minimum crew.
4) they can’t get effective help from the building nation, because they can’t keep their 4 submarines working either.

Hopefully this gets cancelled before the budgets blow out and can the surface fleet like the SSN project did in the 80’s. Unfortunately it’s a political project rather than a military one, and it’s unlikely to go away before it’s sponsoring government.