According to David Pugliese, the CH-148 Cyclone has made its maiden flight at Sikorsky’s West Palm Beach Facility in Florida. The thirty minute long test flight was reported to be successful, but there is little expectation that the flight can be treated as a major indicator that the programme is proceeding toward meeting its 2010 [...]

The Department of Public Works and Government Services Canada has effectively cancelled the Joint Support Ship Programme in light of the two consortiums bidding for the project having been unable to satisfy government requirements. Those consortiums have stated that the $2.9 billion alloted for the construction of three ships is not enough to pay for [...]

After ten years of delays with the Canadianisation programme for the VICTORIA class submarines (ex-UPHOLDER class, Royal Navy), there continues to be little good news facing the Navy’s submarine fleet. According to CanWest News Service, the Navy will have only one of the submarine’s operational until late 2009. Of the four submarines, all three are [...]

Canada’s aging PROTECTEUR class replenishment vessels may yet be in service longer than expected, according to the Ottawa Citizen, which is reporting that there is a funding shortfall for the vessels’ replacement, the Joint Support Ship. The new vessels form an integral part of the Government’s Canada First Defence Strategy. Dating back to 2004, under [...]

Best efforts are made to relay accurate information with regards to these statuses. Information on located of MARPAC units current as of 17 May 2008. Statuses provided only for major units manned solely by military personnel. For units which have indeterminate statuses when this list is being updated, status defaults to “at homeport”. Date provided [...]

Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced a substantial investment in the Navy on July 9, 2007, providing the first tangible result in his Government’s efforts to improve Canada’s Arctic security. The announcement involves the construction of six-to-eight “Arctic Patrol Vessels” (APV) with medium first-year icebreaking capabilities. Such vessels will give the Canadian Navy the ability to [...]

February 2006  Photo Credit: Victoria Shipyards via CASR, Simon Fraser University On 8 November 2004, the Department of National Defence announced the awarding of a $69.7 million CAD contract to build six new training vessels for the Canadian Navy. These vessels would replace the fifty-year old, wooden-hulled, YAG 300 fleet, which had become “prohibitively expensive” [...]

The Maritime Helicopter Project (MHP) was commissioned by the Chrétien government in the year 2000 to provide twenty-eight replacements for the CH124 Sea King maritime helicopters used by the Canadian Navy. The project came seven years after the same government had cancelled a similar project of the Mulroney government, and paid a hefty cancellation fee [...]