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Thursday, November 03, 2011

Upgrade needed for Canada's naval vessels

HMCS Algonquin (DDG 283) (Iroquois class)The ships that roll off the line at Irving Shipbuilding Inc. over the next three decades will dramatically extend the Canadian navy's reach, not just abroad, but into frigid waters close to home.

The National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy has prescribed new ships for the Arctic and replacements for the rest of the fleet, most urgently the navy's aging destroyers and supply vessels.

The six to eight Arctic offshore patrol vessels will once again give the navy a presence in the north, though not to the same extent that the HMCS Labrador - the navy's only icebreaker - did during the 1950s. The new vessels will have the ability only to thrust on top of and crush first-year ice.

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