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The long-term schedule of the Canadian River-class destroyer (RCD) programme and the growing proliferation of aerial, surface and underwater uncrewed systems in maritime theatres have raised questions about whether the future RCDs will be capable of facing autonomous platform attacks. With an acquisition goal of 15 ships , this procurement effort started in 2016 and a design was selected in 2019. To date, three vessels are under contract . The first one, HMCS Fraser, is being built by Irving