Looking at it objectively and whats available on the market, the reality is by the time the Canadians choose we will have moved on a bit tech wise.
I have been on both the Soryu and the Type 212A and both are very good boats, the Soryu has a lot of American equipment inside it, mainly communications, modified sonar suites and fire control systems, where as the German boats naturally have European equipment.
It is one of my bug bears that I cannot extend the articles out more, trust me I really really want to go into substantial detail however any article over about 1,500 words turns the average reader off so its a Limitation I have to deal with.
on the whole I think I could have probably made an article here of 8,10,000 words but then it becomes an essay and like I said no average reader will want to read it.
I have to admit I didnt think to add in the S80 or the Scorpene, on the whole I do think in terms of the S-80 they would be too expensive anyway.
the Scorpene certainly has promise and is a proven design that cheap and capable so yeah I defiantly could see that become part of the running maybe.
The UK sells a lot of hardware but your right it doesn't sell submarines any more which is a bit of a shame seeing as we could build a new export market for them, we have had past successful designs and with the technology the UK has we certainly could build a platform able to compete.
As for Canada going nuclear, I can honestly say there is no apatite here for it, in either the current liberal or conservative government, heck they are still quibbling over the type 26 cost.
|