Nuclear or bust: Canadians face uncomfortable choice for new submarines

The three oceans serving as such capable moats against invasion are the same ones requiring the Navy to spend extra dollars to make its influence felt overseas and in the Arctic.

Despite the Arctic’s growing geopolitical significance and increasing maritime traffic, the upgraded Victoria class have spent most of their limited sailing times this past decade in the Far East and West, not North, like the HMCS Chicoutimi—pictured in Scotland in 2005—which sailed to Japan in 2017-2018, from which it monitored North Korean sanctions, writes Timothy Choi. DND photograph by Cpl. Robert Bottrill

Opinion

BY TIMOTHY CHOI

November 17, 2021

The Royal Canadian Navy recently began the process for replacing its four Victoria class diesel-electric submarines (SSKs) with a core consideration being increased Arctic capabilities. Purchased secondhand from the United Kingdom, the Victorias are infamous in the Canadian psyche: poorly preserved ...

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