The Hill Times
OTTAWA—On Sept. 16, Defence Minister Bill Blair announced that Canada intends to purchase a fleet of new submarines for the Royal Canadian Navy. In the request to industry, the project calls for the acquisition of eight to 12 diesel-electric submarines to replace the Navy’s current aged fleet of four Victoria Class submarines. The mission-specific requirements for the new subs are for them to have an operational range of 7,000 nautical miles.
The Cold War was at its zenith, and—in keeping pace with then-United States president Ronald Reagan’s strategy of outspending the Soviet Union into oblivion—Canada was to go on a wild spending spree to beef up the Canadian Armed Forces. In addition to buying 400 new main battle tanks—I kid you not—Canada was to purchase a fleet of eight to 12 nuclear-powered attack submarines to replace three old Oberon Class diesel-electric submarines then in service.
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