Nuggie77 Nuggie77:
I have to laugh at people who think that after a twenty year sabbatical, the ship building industry in Canada would be building ships immediately after the NSPS program was announced. The entire industry was dead and had to be retooled.
True, all true. I knew a guy working on the TRUMP refit way back circa 1990 and he said exactly the same thing about the Frigates on the ways at the time ... that we build warships so sporadically that we have to relearn how to do it each time around. In all fairness, there is a major revolution in warship design going on simultaneously ... super stealth, tunnel hulls, electric linear accelerator guns, sea-borne drones ...
IF we get a cutting edge, leading design warship out of this (as was the New Tribal 280 class all those decades go) the wait could be worth it. As meek as our efforts seem to have been, Canadians have designed grade "A" warships every time we tried.