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Dassault pulls out of the fighter jet replacement program removing the Rafale off of the board


https://www.theglobeandmail.com/cana...ompetition-to/

The federal government has hit a first obstacle in its effort to foster a competition among five aircraft manufacturers for the $26-billion contract to replace Canada’s fleet of CF-18s, as French-based Dassault Aviation has pulled its Rafale fighter jet out of the race, sources said.


The company has recently conveyed its decision to the federal government, said one government official and two industry officials to whom The Globe and Mail granted anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

Interoperability is becoming a key issue with the competitors

However, the three sources said Dassault felt that Canada’s requirements in terms of interoperability with the North American military posed too much of a problem. Dassault is the first company to pull out of the competition, but the two industry sources said there is no guarantee that the four other qualified bidders will enter the competition that is scheduled to be launched officially by May. At this point, there are two American fighter jets pre-qualified in the race (Lockheed-Martin’s F-35 and Boeing’s SuperHornet) as well as two European aircraft (the Eurofighter Typhoon, made by a consortium that includes Airbus, and Saab’s Gripen)

There are only two jets right now that meet the interoperability standards that is a big part of Norad.


We might see this competition coming down to a two plane race as the Typhoon and Saab Gripen might not be able to meet those requirements out of the box.


It could come down to the Boeing Super Hornet and the F-35.


Don't know if this is in here.


But Canada has chosen the Bae Lockheed Martin bid to use the Type 26 city class frigate to eventually replace the Halifax class frigate


http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone...type-26-design

The Type 26s that BAE is building for the U.K. Royal Navy, also known as the City-class, and the modified versions it will deliver to the Royal Australian Navy, are multi-purpose ships, which you can read about in more detail in a past profile I wrote on the design here. The new ships are supposed to eventually supplant the existing 12 Halifax-class frigates, which the Royal Canadian Navy received in the 1990s and are the service's only major surface combatants today. The Canadian Surface Combatant program to replace those vessels first formally appeared in the Canadian National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy in 2008.

Type 26 class frigate





Speed
Type 26 26 knots

Halifax 30 knots





Armament



Type 26



48 cell anti-air missiles using the Camn or advanced Sea Sparrow
24 cell VLS air to ground or antiship missiles based around the Tomahawk or 24 ASROC rocket boosted torpedoes

1 5 inch gun
1 Chinook capable landing deck


Halifax


8 harpoon missiles
16 advanced sea sparrows