Asia’s Dreadnoughts
Dreadnoughts. The first modern battleship – big guns and steam turbine power. Prior to WWI these new super-warships triggered a major naval arms race between Britain and Germany. Something similar…
submarines
Arms Race Update – There Goes the Neighbourhood
Singapore’s RSS Swordsman When Obama announced America’s military “pivot” out of the Middle East and into Asia-Pacific, it was bound to shake up the neighbourhood – that plus China’s rapid…
Turning to Submarines
HMCS Victoria Back in the 60’s the Royal Canadian Navy fielded a small number of reasonably capable submarines, the Oberon-class boats we bought from the UK. We had five of…
Dud Subs, Dud Torpedoes
Those four second-hand subs the Defence Department duped the Canadian government into buying? 18-years after we got stuck with them, one of them, HMCS Victoria, actually managed to fire a…