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[–] Evkob 111 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (4 children)

Hijacking the top comment to let people know this isn't in response to any American threats, this is Naval Group, a French naval defense company, showing off their submarine because Canada is looking to spend 60 billion on twelve submarines. The plans for this purchase were publicly announced on July 10, 2024.

Here's a French news article about the submarine, seeing as I couldn't seem to find any sources in English.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

I had real good tingle feels imagining France showing up on our coast during this part of history.
A real β€œwe got you bro” moment in my imagination.

Le sad.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 14 hours ago

Naval Group, a French naval defense company

Ah shit, that's the same company Australia had a deal with to buy diesel subs, before our fuckwit former PM reneged on the deal to create AUKUS and buy American nuclear subs.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I'll take both reasons as canon, thank you very much

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I’ll take both reasons as cannon, thank you very much

FTFY

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

without cannons, how will they fight?!?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Weird that they specify "conventionally powered" in the Canadian article since this is a nuclear powered sub.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure that's a Suffren class, and there's both diesel and nuclear powered versions. Dunno how I'd tell from the outside, and don't think the caption is necessarily all that trustworthy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Ah, that makes sense. It's like when the car dealer shows you the version of the car you want with slightly different features since the one you want isn't on the lot yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

I think it's because many nations with subs have nuclear-powered vs diesel-powered. Diesel doesn't have the vast capabilities to stay underwater for months like nuclear does.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know if that's a mistake. It might not be a nuclear sub, just a sub which has nuclear weapons capabilities ( though obviously not this particular sub because it's still in the hands of a defence contractor ( I hope ) ).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

That's an attack sub (for attacking ships/other boats), not a boomer (which have nukes).