06 jul 2026
Canada Picks German Type 212 Submarine For Badly Needed Fleet Renewal
Canada’s next submarine will be German-made, after Ottawa announced its decision to buy a dozen new conventionally powered Type 212CD boats from ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS). The submarines will replace Canada’s aging and increasingly unreliable Victoria class in one of the country’s largest-ever defense procurements, tripling the size of the fleet, while also giving Ottawa a significantly more capable platform for operations in the Arctic and North Atlantic. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced today that the German consortium had won the competition to build the submarines.
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