According to CBC News (Greg Weston “Canada may buy nuclear submarines,” CBC News, 27 October 2011), “high-ranking sources” within the Harper government say the government is “actively considering cutting its losses” on Canada’s problem-plagued Victoria-class subs “and mothballing some if not all of them.” Mothballing — actually eliminating — the subs would be a sensible, […]
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None of Canada's "bargain" subs operational
None of Canada’s four Victoria-class submarines, billed as a “bargain” when they were bought used from Britain in 1998, are currently operational (David Pugliese, “All Canadian submarines now out of commission,” Postmedia News, 4 September 2011): The navy’s last operational submarine is now sidelined until 2016, leaving the service without an underwater capability and potentially […]