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A COLLECTION OF STATS AND FACTS ABOUT THE ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY AND CANADA’S FUTURE WARSHIPS

THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY ASKED NAVAL ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS WHAT CAPABILITIES ITS SHIPS MAY HAVE IN 2050. THESE ARE SOME OF THE RESPONSES:

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10.5: The number of F-35s (at $165m each) it would take to equal the value of one Canadian Surface Combatant ($1.747B if 15 were built).

Number of ships in Canada’s Navy at the end of the

Second World War in 1945:

Number of ships in Canada’s

Navy in 2015:

Complement of Canada’s Iroquois-class destroyer:

United States: Zumwalt Class @ 15,656t

Japan: Atago Class @ 10,000+t

Korea: Sejong the Great Class @ 10,000t

United States: Arleigh Burke Class @ 9,648t

China: Kee-Lung Class @ 9,574t

Complement of a French FREMM-class frigate:

Proposed core complement of BAE Systems Type 26 Global Combat Ship:

Proposed core complement of Navantia’s F-110 Frigate:

Construction: Plastic and Graphene

Conventional masts replaced by drone-carrying sensors

Holographic command centres

Weapons that fire at the speed of light

Invisibility

Source: National Post, Ottawa Citizen

Source: Naval Review, Forces.gc.ca

Source: telegraph.co.uk

Source: CBC, National Post, CGAI

Source: National Post

Source: Wikipedia, DCNS, BAE Systems, Global Security

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announced:

Construction expected to begin:

Delivery of first Canadian Surface

Combatant:

Estimated year when Navy will take delivery of

last CSC:

Total program life:

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HOW DO CANADA’S 5,100 TONNE (FULL LOAD DISPLACEMENT) IROQUOIS-CLASS DESTROYERS (OR WHAT IS LEFT OF THEM) MEASURE

UP TO THE TOP 5 LARGEST DESTROYERS IN THE WORLD?