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A SPECIAL ISSUE PRODUCED BY CANADIAN DEFENCE REVIEW<br />
TYPE 212CD<br />
A Worthy<br />
Contender<br />
Interview: Oliver Burkhard for the<br />
CEO of TKMS<br />
The Pitch: A look at TKMS' RCN's CPSP<br />
bid for the CPSP<br />
The Platform: Deep Dive Procurement<br />
into the Type 212CD<br />
Infographic:<br />
TKMS Global Fleet<br />
Team 212CD: The Canadian<br />
Industrial Backbone<br />
CONTENTS<br />
3 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR 16<br />
By Peter A. Kitchen<br />
4 TEAM 212CD 18<br />
By Matt Bromberg, President & CEO, CAE<br />
5 THE PAST<br />
Canada's troubled past 23<br />
with submarines<br />
By James Careless<br />
8 TEAM 212CD 24<br />
By Magellan Aerospace<br />
9 TEAM 212CD 26<br />
By Jordan Freed, President<br />
and Managing Director,<br<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 1" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=1"> A SPECIAL ISSUE PRODUCED BY CANADIAN DEFENCE REVI</a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 2" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=2"> CONTENTS 3 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR </a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 3" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=3"> LETTER FROM THE EDITOR A MUCH</a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 4" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=4"> TEAM 212CD ADVANCING CANADA'S SOVER</a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 5" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=5"> THE PAST BENEATH TheCanad conventi response </a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 6" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=6"> HMCS CC-1 was acquired by British Columbia at the</a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 7" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=7"> THE VICTORIA-CLASS To replace the aging Oberons, </a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 8" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=8"> TEAM 212CD POWERING CANADA'S SUBMARINE FUTURE: </a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 9" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=9"> TEAM 212CD STRENGTHENING CANADA'</a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 10" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=10"> FEATURE INTERVIEW OLIVER BURKHARD CEO - TKMS As g</a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 11" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=11"> Team 212CD presents Canada with a once-</a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 12" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=12"> TKMS supplies roughly 70% of NATO's conventional </a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 13" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=13"> More than ten years ago, a TKMS submarine broke t</a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 14" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=14"> On August 26, 2025, Canadian Prime Minister Mark </a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 15" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=15"> TEAM 212CD Dave Hargreaves, Senior Vice Pres</a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 16" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=16"> INFOGRAPHIC TKMS GLOBAL FLEET 16 TKMS SU</a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 17" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=17"> Türkiye India Ko</a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 18" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=18"> CANADA'S CPSP BY JAMES CARELESS As Canada </a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 19" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=19"> A s the global security environment</a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 20" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=20"> and Defence Minister David McGuinty visited the T</a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 21" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=21"> stable baseline with exible integration, Canada </a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 22" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=22"> In January 2026, TKMS signed a Teaming Agreement </a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 23" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=23"> TEAM 212CD THE NEXT FRONTIER OF</a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 24" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=24"> HIC LEGEND T C A HE AN-GER-NOR </a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 25" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=25"> Arctic Ocean Russia North Pole Svalbard </a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 26" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=26"> THE PLATFORM NEXT-GENERATION UNDERSEA WARFARE </a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 27" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=27"> Jointly developed for Ger</a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 28" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=28"> A defining technological feature of TKMS submarine</a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 29" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=29"> the only submarines available in the world incorp</a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 30" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=30"> The Type 212CD's distinctive diamond-shaped outer</a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 31" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=31"> TEAM 212CD STRENGTHENING CANADA'S IND</a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 32" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=32"> IN ACTION WHEN DAVID SINKS GOLIATH The world's mo</a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 33" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=33"> The Portuguese submarine Ar</a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 34" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=34"> In 2005, an AIP-equipped submarine “sank” USS Ron</a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 35" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=35"> US Navy. This system has moving mechanical parts </a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 36" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=36"> well-protected or armed, is safe from a well- des</a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 37" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=37"> TEAM 212CD THE GERMAN-NORWEGIAN CPSP-BID: DEFEN</a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 38" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=38"> DEFENCE INNOVATION SOVEREIGN CAPABILITIES THROUGH</a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 39" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=39"> Overview of initial set-up of CDDE representativ</a>
<a title="TKMS Special Edition 2026 page 40" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/446e2b66?page=40"> TEAM 212CD TRUSTED ALLIES. WORLD CLASS</a>