Navy saving money by not using frigates' equipment

A lack of funding has forced Canada’s navy to take an unusual approach to finding savings — it has sent its frigates out on international missions with instructions to crews not to use some of the ships’ sophisticated sensors.

Those restrictions have helped cut back on maintenance bills but also limit the ships’ effectiveness, according to a Department of National Defence evaluation of the navy.

That recently released evaluation examined the period from 2008 to 2013.


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