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I highly recommend this video (also this whole channel) for icex operations.

I think it's because her draft is too deep for the harbour. We've had nuke attack boats at A jetty many times.

The feed horn on the CEROS is for the CWI and yes it's Kevlar the wires. It doesn't really affect the radar performance. That being said, I've had to replace a couple of those now and it's a pain in the a**. The CWI was an afterthought for Saab as they never intended it to do missile...

I can see them reusing the Steamer's names (St. Laurent, Mackenzie, Restigouche, Fraser, etc.). Basically Canadian rivers.

The British are using the Type 26 to replace the Type 23, which is designed specifically for ASW.

Sacrificing ASW? The Type 26 was designed as an ASW Frigate by the British as it's primary function. Yes we are putting more above-water warfare systems on it but the CSC will still have an HMS and a TAS plus the Cyclone and possibly AUVs/ROVs. This makes them as good or even more capable...

We probably still have the Mk 41 cells still kicking around in storage from the 280's.  They would just need new controllers and interface to the new FCS.

Well damn.  You could have 28 SM-2's and 16 ESSM's :o

Hey Underway, I saw this at work a few months ago.  It is great to see this in the public realm.  Curious is Sea Ceptor sharing the Mk 41 Launchers (I know like ESSM, they can be quad-packed) or are they using their own VLS?  24 Tomahawks or SM-2's, 16 ESSM, and 16 Sea Ceptor is a hell of a...

I foresee the return of the Standard Missiles(SM-2 or SM-6. Probably not SM-3).  The no Phalanx option feels like a bad idea (reaction time, minimum engagement range, etc).  Perhaps get SeaRAM(Phalanx with RAM missiles) instead of Phalanx for CIWS.  Are they planning on having some smaller...

Fair point.  Nothing OPSEC in what I said.  What it does is in the acronym.

I know that it is active homing, but can do semi-active as well.  The reason it can do both is because of ECM systems.  A lot harder to jam a CWI.  It's an RF hose.  You would need REALLY powerful ECM to jam it. 

Hopefully they upgrade the CWI to Mod 5 to fully support Block 2 for the current frigates.

I highly doubt it would be anything close to the SM-2 in range (>166 km).  It's just a much larger missile than even the CAMM-ER.  There is a land-based CAMM option(Sky Sabre).  The British Army is going to use it to replace the Rapier missile.

I suppose.  Both missiles have similar specs (all be it different max/min range) it seems odd to me to have both.  I know Sea Ceptor will work with Mk 41 VLS.  I sure hope we will deploying SM-2's again.  That was a big loss when the 280's were decommissioned.