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Machine
- 2 * General Electric electric motors
- 1 * Rolls-Royce MT30 gas turbine
- 4 * Rolls-Royce MTU Type 20V 4000 M53B high-speed diesel generators
- L3Harris Integrated Platform Management System
Personnel
Combat assets
- Command and control
- Lockheed Martin Canada CMS 330 Combat System with AEGIS Fire Control Loop
- USN Cooperative Engagement Capability (sensor netting)
- Integrated Cyber Defence System
- OSI Maritime Systems Integrated Bridge and Navigation System
- L3Harris Internal and External Communication Suite
- Surveillance & weapon sensors
- Lockheed Martin Canada AN/SPY-7(V)1 Solid State 3D AESA radar
- MDA Solid State AESA Target Illuminator
- X & S Band navigation radars
- L3Harris WESCAM Electro-optical and infrared systems
- Underwater warfare systems
- Towed sonar: Ultra Electronics TFLAS (variable depth)
- Hull-mounted sonar: Ultra Electronics Sonar S2150-C
- Lockheed Martin Canada RAVEN electronic countermeasures suite
- Ultra Electronics SEA SENTOR S21700 towed torpedo countermeasures
- General Dynamics Sonobuoy Processing System
- Expendable Acoustic Countermeasures
- Missiles
- 2 * quad box launchers:
- 8 * Naval Strike Missile
- 2 * 3-cell ExLS:
- 24 * Sea Ceptor (CAMM) CIADS, quad-packed
- 1 * 24-cell Mk 41 VLS:
- RIM-162 ESSM Block II
- RIM-66 SM-2 Block IIIC
- BGM-109 Tomahawk
- Torpedoes
- 2 * twin 324 mm (13 in) torpedo tubes (auto-loaded):
- Mk 54 MAKO torpedo
- Guns
- 1 * OTO 127 mm (5 in)/64 LW Vulcano naval gun
- 2 * 30 mm (1.2 in) autocannons
- 6 * 12.7 mm (0.50 in) M2 machine guns
- Helicopters
- 1 * CH-148 Cyclone armed with:
- 2 * Mk 54 MAKO Torpedo
- 1 * C6 FLEX 7.62 mm (0.300 in) GPMG
The River-class destroyer, formerly the Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC), and Single Class Surface Combatant Project is the procurement project that will replace the Iroquois and Halifax-class warships with up to 15 new ships beginning in the early 2030s as part of the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy. Each ship will share a name with one of the destroyers of the World War II Canadian River-class.
At approximately 8000 tonnes, the replacement vessels will have almost double the displacement of the existing Halifax-class frigates, and presumably provide a wide-area air defence capability, anti-submarine as well as anti-ship warfare capability. The design of these ships is currently underway, and both the total number of ships and their capability will be dependent on the budget that is allocated to the project. In 2017, a new defence policy framework, entitled Strong, Secure and Engaged, was unveiled which promised significantly greater resources for the Surface Combatant Project — i.e. in the range of $60 billion. By 2021, the Parliamentary Budget Officer estimated the cost for the program of 15 Type 26 ships as $77.3 billion, «rising to $79.7 billion if there is a one-year delay in the start of construction and $82.1 billion if there is a two-year delay».
Given the need to fully develop the Canadian design, tool up the shipyard and first complete the preceding eight-vessel Arctic Offshore Patrol Ship project, the envisaged start date for construction is in 2025 with the first vessel to enter service in the early 2030s.
The ships were ordered on 28 June 2024, which coincided with the announcement of the class's namesakes. The date also marked the start of construction on the production test module at Irving Shipbuilding. This module will be used to test and streamline building processes. The lessons learned from this process will then be applied in order to enable the start of full-rate production in 2025. Delivery of the first River-class destroyer, HMCS Fraser, is expected in the early 2030s, with the first nine ships projected to be built by 2040. The final ship, of a projected total of 15 destroyers, is expected to be delivered by 2050.
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