{"id":104149,"date":"2026-08-10T04:00:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=104149"},"modified":"2026-08-08T14:22:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:22:05","slug":"was-canadas-victoria-class-submarine-deal-a-massive-procurement-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/08\/10\/was-canadas-victoria-class-submarine-deal-a-massive-procurement-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Canada&#8217;s <em>Victoria<\/em>-class submarine deal a massive procurement failure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i_48Uhp5PvY?si=FxSg9ZjgwthDeyrE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Dominion Defence Review<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 8 Aug 2026<\/p>\n<p>Plagued by chronic low availability while also being expensive to maintain, the purchase of used British submarines seems to be a good reminder that a low sticker price isn&#8217;t everything &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominion Defence Review Published 8 Aug 2026 Plagued by chronic low availability while also being expensive to maintain, the purchase of used British submarines seems to be a good reminder that a low sticker price isn&#8217;t everything &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,6,7,5,663],"tags":[1066,1463,745,364],"class_list":["post-104149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-cancon","category-history","category-military","category-weapons","tag-logistics","tag-militaryprocurement","tag-rcn","tag-submarine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-r5P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104150,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104149\/revisions\/104150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}