[Newsbot]

Title: Sub goes west for refit
Category: Military
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2009-04-02 14:33:29
Canadian

[stokes]

I was in Halifax 2 months ago and I talked to a friend who said that the Chicoutimi sat in drydock for 6 months at HSL and they didnt do a thing to her but cost us 19 million dollars.

[Freakinoldguy]

$1:

Irving’s Halifax Shipyard handled maintenance on the subs, beginning with their purchase from Britain in the late 1990s.But in 2007 the government announced that a West Coast consortium had tentatively won a 15-year $1.5-billion contract to refurbish them.

My guess would be the Washington Marine Group, since they're the only ones left out here with the capacity to do something like this.

[herbie]

And to think we could've bought that Russian sub that used to be in New West at Repo Depot for about $50...

[Tman1]

When was the last time you heard these subs actually being useful? For that matter the point to refitting them. Subs today can detect those retro rejects a thousand km away thus nullifying any element of surprise, surveillance, or war.

[Streaker]

The sub programme isn't high on the list of DND priorities, hence their lack of usefulness. Consider the insane length of time it is taking to fix up the Chicoutimi.

[ShepherdsDog]

It's in the far north that Canada needs a sub presence to keep the Russians and the Americans out of our territorial waters.

[Tman1]

or at the least some sort of detection net and saying 'oops' I see you.

[saturn_656]

Tman1 Tman1:

or at the least some sort of detection net and saying 'oops' I see you.

You have to have the ability to put a torpedo up the arse of any possible intruder.

Simple sonar nets just don't cut it, sure we can see them... but what are we going to do about it then?

Shake our finger? Say "tsk, tsk, tsk"? Warn them not to do it anymore or... we'll warn them again?