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Originally Posted by kwoldtimer
If $1.8B bears any relation to reality, Canada should pick up 8 or 10 of them. Seems like a serious bargain. I take it that they could operate under Arctic ice for some weeks at a time?
I wonder if CAF haven't already decided which sub they want? Shades of the F-35!
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If not nuclear, there's a basically two questions to ask:
1) How big? The Victoria Class is ~2500t. For long endurance and higher capability you have to go more than 3000t.
2) At 3000t, there are basically four contenders: Soryu (Japan), KSS III (Korea), Type 216 (Germany) and Shortfin Barracuda (France). There's capability differences among the four contenders but not anything like the F-35 where there was a clear winner on capability. But really the biggest drivers of this choice are going to be industrial considerations and long term geopolitical relationships.
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