If these ships were designed and built post Ukraine invasion then possibly some of these capabilities would be built in to the base design. Except for some bolt on options that may or may not be effective I can't see any significant changes other than some sort of anti drone system. No one is looking at any changes at this time or anticipated any in the future.
Tell that to the Russians.
Relative energy densities for comparison: (ref)
If you have hydrogen (in the near future, ) 2 to 3x more dense than hydrocarbons. Otherwise use hydrocarbons as your source.
Tell that to the Russians.
I take the point about the AOPS but I can't help but feel that a country that has thousands of miles of shoreline (some warm; some chilly) should be able to bring weapons to bear all along it. We certainly can't afford more CSCs. I'm not so sure we can afford the ones we're getting. And I don't trust the RCAF to do it for long.
I don't think the next conflict will give us the time to become the arsenal of the world again. I tend to think of the navy the way that I think of the army. We need a lot of it but only a part of it needs to be "forces in being" during peacetime - enough to generate the leadership and skilled experts that will be needed in time of conflict and enough crews to cater to the few discretionary expeditionary missions we choose to undertake in peacetime.
We do need a quantity of some cheap, quickly produced weapons carriers (anti ship, ant-air, anti-sub) that can be deployed (and built rapidly) in time of need that are simple enough to be manned with hybrid crews (or operate autonomously) and capable of operating reasonably on the high seas. Those and motherships to care and feed them. They need to be cheap so that a fair bit of redundancy built in. Some missiles will always get through. (See Falklands and Russia). And we need a domestic weapons building capacity.
That is all.
What coastal defenses?
Modern coastal defences in my mind consists of long range radars, satellites, underwater detection/listening systems within the EEZ, along with patrol aircraft. Backed by long range mobile Anti Ship missiles, complimented by some short range portable Anti Ship systems to guard places like Esquimalt. You may eventually need a AD system to protect the ship in harbour and infrastructure. Maybe even a Bofor's Mk3 at the entrance of Esquimalt in wartime.
Thanks, that was more on the nose that I was going to post but similarly I always point to the airforce as the first response to incursion into Canadian waters. If a ship can be in range in 24-48hrs that generally pretty quick in nautical terms.
Just fine. That 40 foot trailer can't swim. The carrier can sit just out or range and give them the finger all day long and still perform their strike or blockade mission. Likely their strike against the trailer.
Don’t know, but if they are supposed to exactly replicate an AEGIS/SPY 7 combo….yes?
I worry about the Chinese arming maybe 1 in 5 of their fishing fleet with some sort of missile and drone. Not to mention deploying unmarked nets to act as an obstacle and a complication. If you don't sink some of them, then the threats remains, but if you do, you just given China a propaganda win. Not that they give a shit about the lives of their fisherman.
Where there's only very limited options for landing that aren't vertiginous fjords with dense forests, and even fewer that offer any real links to the rest of the country.
So what your saying is that the new P-8's get to shoot fish in a barrel?
It sounds cool but not without significant modification. A test facility won't have 24-7 watches and certainly won't have the equipment running all the time. The entire point of it is to try out software and hardware configurations before you implement them on the ship, gather data on system performance and provide training to operators and technicians.
Apparently only enough to complain about size vs weapons not taking into account that its tonnage is entirely based on its ice capability. Twitter, still full of twits.
With 500,000+ fishing vessels, we don't have enough P-8's
