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Canada to quadruple sub fleet as NATO, Russia and China eye the Arctic
Canada plans to acquire a dozen new submarines capable of traveling under sea ice as part of efforts to bolster the defense of the country's vast Arctic coastal region, the Canadian defense ministry announced last week. "A larger modernized …