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Canadian Navy to adopt tiered readiness system

SHARON HOBSON JDW Correspondent

Ottawa

The Canadian Navy is planning to keep 13 ships and three submarines at high readiness, while reducing overall readiness for the rest of its fleet.

In a new Maritime Command Capability Planning Guidance document, the Chief of Maritime Staff Vice Adm Greg Maddison, has set down the new parameters for the navy's operations given the Department of National Defence's fiscal constraints. He says drastic cuts in the fleet maintenance facilities and the maintenance budget, mean "the navy can no longer maintain all ships in the fleet at the same level of technical readiness".

Therefore, from 1 April 2000 the navy will adopt a tiered readiness system that will focus resources on two high readiness task groups (TGs). Maintaining a ship in the high readiness tier will require approximately 120 sea days annually.

One, designated the Contingency Task Group (CTG), will be maintained at 30 days notice for deployment to a theatre of mid-intensity conflict. The other group, designated the National Task Group (NTG), is to be maintained at 60 days notice for deployment.

The responsibility for the generation of the groups will alternate annually between the west coast and the east coast fleets. Previously the responsibility alternated every six months, and the groups were supposed to be ready to deploy within 10 or 30 days.

Each TG will consist of one Iroquois-class destroyer, two Halifax-class frigates, one Victoria-class submarine and one auxiliary-oiler-replenishment ship. The CTG will also include up to seven helicopters and up to six maritime patrol aircraft. The NTG will include "appropriate rotary wing and maritime patrol aircraft".

One Halifax-class frigate from each TG will be a vanguard unit, deployable within 21 days. Another Halifax-class frigate from the cast coast fleet, deplorable within 21 days, will be assigned to NATO's Standing Naval Force Atlantic. Although not assigned to a TG, four of the navy's new Kingston-class coastal defence vessels will also be maintained at high readiness.

Another five Halifax-class frigates and six Kingston-class vessels will be held at standard readiness levels, deployable to a theatre of mid-intensity operations within 90 days. Meanwhile, they will be capable of performing routine sovereignty operations, participating in exercises and training. Ships in this tier will require approximately 80 sea days per year to maintain proficiency.

The extended tier will be used for ships assigned low activity status, designated as harbour training ships, undergoing refits or scheduled for docking and work periods. They would be deployable within 180 days, and less than 20 sea days a year may be required to facilitate rotation to or from another tier of readiness.

The new system will result in an overall reduction in sea days, but Capt John Dewar, Director General Maritime Development and Operations, said that by using simulators for shore-based training, "you get the most value for every day at sea". He added: "This is not just a cost-saving measure, this is a way of addressing the operational tempo for the sailors themselves."

Each Canadian task group will consist of one Iroquois-class destroyer (top), a replenishment ship (middle), two Halifax-class frigates (bottom) and a Victoria-class submarine at high readiness.


Sunday, October 17, 1999

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