Canada's new Arctic patrol ships will likely lack sonar capability, forcing them to use other methods to detect submarine threats in northern waters, a project official said Wednesday.
"They will not have the ability to detect submarines," Capt. Ron Lloyd, a senior navy planner, said in an interview with The Canadian Press. Both the operation and even the installation of sonar equipment on the new warships may prove to be impractical, he said.
"You're talking about ship that's going to run up onto ice and all of the noise that ice makes and still be able to detect submarines," said Lloyd, who is the former commander of the frigate HMCS Charlottetown.
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