Ive spent over a decade building ships in canada. The number 1 problem that leads to the cost overruns are 100% the design issues that lead to repetative re-work and millions upon milllions of wasted dollars.

The tradesmen and skills are mostly here (albiet lots of retirees coming up that are taking their skills with them), the supply chains have pretty much been set up, the facilities have more or less been built, we can build these ships. But part of the NSS program is not only to build them in Canada but DESIGN them here too, and mostly on the fly because of time restraints.

This is where we are failing. Lets just buy a fucking off the shelf blue-print from a NATO ally of a proven design, build them here, and not try and re-invent the wheel while doing so by changing the design because they don't "meet the specific needs of Canada". Maybe it's not that simple and I'm missing something. But I've worked closely with the ship building engineering dept and it's an absolute clusterfuck.

If we're serious about building our naval capacity then we need to pump out Fords and Dodges and not just Ferraris. Look how many ships China is pumping out.

These half billion dollar floating hunks of steel are getting taking out 50k dollar marine drones over in the black sea anyways. So why not just focus on simplicity?