Baltic Defence Review, a highly respectable all weapon types, multinational website, provides July 9, 2026 commentary on Canada's choice of the TKMS Type 212CD. Here are the rough construction timings between the German, Norwegian and Canadian 212CD allies,
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Hi Pete,
Interesting interview by Forces News UK with the RN First Sea Lord, General Sir Gwyn Jenkins (RM) on the pending re-commissioning of HMS Daring that was laid up in 2017 for refit..
Daring only spent 8 years in full commission, so is returning to service after 9 years. This speaks volumes about the current condition of the RN and I very much doubt that the RN is ready to fight a peer Nation, such as Russia, by itself. https://www.forcesnews.com/services/navy/morales-high-and-navys-ready-fight-first-sea-lord-tells-bfbs-candid-interview
Hi Shawn
For anyone who is not a Pom its strange the Royal Navy is more or less represented by a General - even if he IS from the Royal Marines (RM).
Poor Britain is suffering a perfect storm of a Rampant Russians with Putin manipulating vain Trump - a RAF, Army and UK RN screaming out for more money and resources to face said Russians and to support Ukraine - Trump under Putin's guidance gutting NATO - the RN reeling from defective naval reactors - carriers they shouldn't have built with tiny airwings they cannot afford - need for nuclear weapons for the RAF which the US will sell to them at prices recommended by Putin. The list goes on.
Cheers Pete
And let’s not forget that Brexit means that the UK cannot tap into the €150 billion EU SAFE defence fund.
Hi Shawn
Other Pommy happenings
Its been a busy period in the U.K., with Britain's long-awaited Defence Investment Plan published. Highlights included £5bn for drones to help the RN's Hybrid Navy push,
Type 83s (were to be proposed guided-missile destroyers envisaged to enter service with the UK RN in the late 2030s.)
scrapped in favour of six Common Combat Vessels plus drone escorts,
and four new amphibious ships built in the U.K. to a Dutch design for a joint amphibious force with the Royal Netherlands Navy.
If all that wasn't enough, F35s had to see off a Russian MPA dropping sonobuoys too close for comfort to RN carrier and flagship HMS Prince of Wales, and the RN launched a jet strike drone at sea for the first time.
Sounds like the beginnings of a larger Greyzone War
Cheers Pete
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