Of the world’s 36 aircraft carriers, for instance, the United States owns 19 - and none of the American ones are clunky and rusty.
Of course, as the University of Calgary’s Rob Huebert noted, this holds true for virtually every other country that counts the U.S. Throw in the base’s aircraft carrier and its command ship, and Canada’s submarines and patrol vessels would have their capability replaced many times over. Naval War College, noted that Canada could swap out all its frigates by pinching the base’s far-more-powerful collection of destroyers and cruisers. Navy Officer and former professor at the U.S. Navy base If Canada’s navy were to sink tomorrow, the Americans could completely replace it without touching any of their stateside vessels. Article content FileĬanada’s entire naval strength is less than a single overseas U.S. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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Most importantly, the Aussies fluff up their naval budget with the full knowledge that, if something goes down, they can’t simply wait for the Americans to save them. “They live in a rougher neighbourhood,” Rob Huebert, a University of Calgary naval researcher, told the National Post. Nevertheless, the Australians have 3,500 more sailors, a larger fleet and a bigger budget. Smaller than Australia Australia is essentially a hotter Canada with 12 million fewer people and $400 billion fewer in GDP. Even Japan, which has maintained a famously pacifist foreign policy since the Second World War, has four times more submarines than Canada, 40 more destroyers and two helicopter carriers. have nuclear-powered subs, unlike Canada. (An aircraft carrier trumps a destroyer, after all.) Nevertheless, on almost any metric, Canada is out-navied by its G7 colleagues. Smaller than any other G7 country The biggest pitfall of comparing navies is simply to compare fleet sizes.
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