A Conversation with Royal Canadian Navy Commander VADM Topshee

Bill Hamblet talks with Vice Admiral Angus Topshee, Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy, about the future of the fleet and global operations.

[FrenchConnection]

Great interview, through the struggle we keep pushing through . I’m happy to hear that clearances diver and vow capabilities are supported by our top brass by our commitments in OP Reassurance! DEEP SEA!

[jazzmandan]

‘Design spirals’.. sums things up amongst many of the 🇨🇦 procurements. Glad he recognized this as we need assets out there sooner rather than later and not 20+ years down the road, then they’ll be dealing with obsolete equipment.

[JeromeKatchin-jrum]

Great interview ... thank you for doing this presentation.

[JoannDavi]

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"O, Canada! America stands on guard for thee."
(You hope.)

[bennuredjedi]

So basically the RCN will not be investing in high end capable vessels like lhd’s or ESB’s that will give the RCN better flexibility and improve their operational capabilities. They need to have organic over the horizon capabilities, no they don’t need a marine corps but maritime trained army infantry regiments that can perform those tasks. The Canadian Armed Forces are hindered by the political ideology of their political leaders who keep the doctrine of depend on our allies to meet our needs, the Canadian Armed Forces deserves better.

[anre]

Wonder why TopShee wasn't given the Chief of Defense Staff spot. Boy seems pretty sharp and gets things moving quickly

[RG-qnqm]

Thank you, Justin, for increasing the Canadian Navy ships and spending on the ship yards that employe thousands of Canadians and for keeping the building of these new vessels in- house ship building will now be able to build ships for Canada.

[LukusCseh]

I love everything this guy had to say about the production of new Canadian Navy vessels and his will for construction to be faster. But our new River-Class Destroyers schedule is far too slow. We won't acquire all of our vessels for 25 years. This is just unacceptable. We need them within this decade, not a generation from now.

[ericbrown]

3 navy officer we dont have any ships to give because they are all broken just like my whole career of 36 years in the Canadian Navy.

[alanbrooke]

Wouldn’t it make sense for the RCN to join the RAN’s procurement of the AUKUS nuclear powered submarines rather than going for a conventional diesel-electric?

[JoannDavi]

Canada's most seaworthy sub: in The West Edmonton Mall

[InvisibleHotdog]

Lot of talk. Let's see if the action reflects that.

[stevevandine]

Well still see years of cutting military spending at same time upgrading old then letting go and investing in government programs once one of largest naval fleets and ship building heritage closing down ship or giving money to Irving to close Saint John ship building give them money bring back workforce from west open shipyard back up in saint john New Brunswick cut building times down

[OranutYatthaisong]

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[HfxTraveler]

Could he be anymore of a dork !! It would be nice to see some NEW subs in CDN. But don't hold your breath just are Four Trafalgar class submarines up for grabs in Devonport England, and we seem to always get the UK's junk.

[clintmcguffin]

What a joke, only building 2 new replenishment ships. So if one is in drydock getting overhauled they are down to 1 ship. Wouldn't common sense dictate you should build 3 of those?

[Joepops]

The RCN has never been in a weaker state at it is right now.
Littoral fleet: about 26 vessels, heaviest armaments; Six 25 mil pop guns. Seemingly the backbone of its self defence, each vessel two WW2 machine guns in open air pedastals as if in Pearl Harbor 1941. Four dangerous to thier crew submarines. Eight Orca vessels west coast, zero deck armament. 12 Kingston vessels whom in 2014 they removed its 40mm Bofors, yet replaced with nothing. Twelve over worked aging frigates, our blue water navy. So for strictly 202, 000 kms coastline defence: zero missiles, zero torpedoes zero depth charges, zero 20mm CIWS.
Pathetic joke of NATO. This would be funny if not the subject of defence of our realm.

[ericbrown]

this recruiting idea is not new they tried this in the eighties and it did not work and it wont work now the military is gone completely Woke and people do not want this.

[Canuck]

Question does the British monarchy put food on Canadians tables? Does it pay my bills? Does it build me a home? Does the symbol keep me safe? The answer to all is no. But America 🇺🇸 does all of these I am North American we need to embrace our American identity monarchy divides us