Royal Canadian Navy Discussions and updates

[Underway]

The RCN and Govt staff have been very adamant thus far that these boats will be effectively entirely built abroad, no Canadian company will ever be able to do partial assembly on modern conventional submarines anytime soon. Canada is going to require that the successful bid actively engage and develop Canadian industry to allow us to domestically upkeep, refit and repair these submarines over their lifetime though. That is where the majority of the domestic offsets and money will come from, the lifetime upkeep of the vessels.

This is why I put Korea in the lead. Their domestic build out history for other defence contracts elsewhere (Poland and Australia as good examples) and the fact Canada has a free trade agreement with them gives them a powerful bid.

The main Canadianization would likely come only in comms and everything being in French and English.