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Originally Posted by Roughneck
Just paint them black, strap on a C6 robbed from an infantry unit, and baby, you've got yourself a sub fleet!
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Right now, I'd trust those way more then the current Victoria class submarines, that have never been trouble free.
Frankly when we thought about purchasing them, I thought it was a good move. Take the sensor and weapons suites of what would be a SSN like a first flight LA class, and put it in a Diesel body to create a really effective SSK.
But the British saw the stupidity of the Canadian government at the time, knew that the boats had deteriorated during storage but put on their best Herb Tarlick reversable plaid suit jacket and sold a bad class of Submarines.
And then instead of doing the smart thing and #### canning the whole class, tried to make them last as long as possible while throwing dollar after dollar at them.
I would hope that if we do buy a new class of submarine, that we don't even try to build them ourselves or try to Canadianize them, but select a good class of boat that's currently in production, slap a flag on it and call it a day.
MAybe the Scorpene class submarine made by France, The Type 212A out of Germany, The Harushio out of Japan or even the Goto class.
We don't have the time or dollars to build our own class, we don't have the expertise or facilities for a short production run modification.
BUY OFF THE SHELF.