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Originally Posted by CroFlames
Could Canada buy America's Ohio class subs since they are being replaced soon?
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Why would we want to. First of all Canada doesn't have a nuclear navy, and building the infrastructure and re training the Sailors on Nuclear Submarine operations would cost in the 10's of billions of dollars.
Also SSBN's are notoriously poor in terms of the role of a Hunter Killer which is what our Navy needs. The Ohio is slow with a submerged speed of 25 knots. Its also not exactly maneuverable. Its main mission is to hide with pride. To dive deep and basically use its ultra quieting technology, which is very good. Ohio's have rarely been tracked in deep water. and radiate less noise then the ocean around them.
If Canada is going to replace our current class of Victoria Class submarines, which was a good concept badly executed. It combined the sensors and weapons systems of a SSN with a decently quiet Diesel Electric plant. But it had serious used car problems. It needs to look at the Air independent technology used by Sweden and Germany for example Who use it in their coastal patrol boats. A made in Canada solution is out of the question, we don't have the infrastructure and spooling up production for 4 to 6 subs makes no sense.