Key Features

• Displacement: 40,000 tons

• Propulsion: Small Modular Reactor (SMR) for extended missions

• Drone Complement:

  • 36 × Revenant Class Strategic UCAVs and

  • 12× Mixed-Class Tactical Drones (MYTHOS-series)

  • 200× Phantom Halo Micro-Drones

  • 30 × Phantom Dagger Loitering munitions

• Flight Deck: Reinforced deck with catapult and arrestor capabilities for drone operations

• Hangar Bays: Expanded multi-tier hangar for drone storage, rearm, and maintenance

• Troop Capacity: 200+ Marines

• Vehicle Bay: Accommodates 4 THORUN units, main battle tanks, and light transports

• Underwater Defence: Torpedos counter measures, towed sonar decoys, Anti - submarine rocket assisted torpedos (ASROC)

• 2 Phalanx CIWS (Close-In Weapon System)

  • Retractable turret, likely located mid-deck or near the superstructure for 360° coverage

  • Provides last-ditch defence against missiles, drones, and low-flying threats

• 64 Modular VLS (Vertical Launch System) Cells

  • Integrated into deck or below deck amidships

  • For SAMs, anti-ship, or hypersonic defence, Sea-Land (Long-range land attack cruise missiles LACMs)

  • Optional laser or DEW systems (future-ready)

  • 8 x Ballistic missile defence interceptors

• Electronic Countermeasures & EW Suite

  • Part of the Borealis AI integration

  • Spoofing, defensive jamming cyber warfare node, and decoy deployment

  • Future - Proof slots Directed - energy weapons / railgun option

    Support Assets:

  • 2 Helicopter Landing Pads

  • Integrated for HADR (Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Response)

  • Desalination Systems for long-term humanitarian and forward operations

Kraken Class | Peer Warfare

Not Just A Concept But the Vision of the Future

The Kraken Class Drone Carrier is not only an asymmetric drone warfare platform but also a true peer/near pear adversary-capable flagship. It enhances offensive, defensive, electronic and operational capabilities to enable independent or group operations against modern blue - water navies and integrated land - based defences.

Direct Grounded Assessment

The Kraken-Class Drone Carrier is not just a drone arsenal platform but a strategic force projection asset, capable of competing against peer adversaries in specific operational contexts. Its strength lies in distributed lethality through Revenant-Class UCAVs, long-range standoff strike capabilities, advanced electronic warfare (EW), and AI-coordinated drone swarms for ISR and saturation attacks. Against Russia’s naval forces, including the Kirov-class battlecruisers and Oscar-class SSGNs, the Kraken, supported by its Tempest-Class destroyer escorts, could effectively neutralize surface threats via long-range precision strikes and overwhelm enemy ISR with drone saturation. Russian submarine threats remain the principal risk, but with coordinated ASW from Vanguard-class escorts (planned), the battle group can maintain parity or advantage, particularly in the Arctic or North Atlantic.

Facing PLAN carrier strike groups or a future PANG battle group, however, the Kraken’s relative lack of organic manned air cover is a limiting factor. While its stealth drones offer deep strike and ISR reach, adversary carriers bring fifth-generation fighters (e.g., J-35, Rafale NG) providing persistent CAP (Combat Air Patrol) and force protection. The Kraken Class Drone Carrier offsets some of that with hypersonic-capable missile batteries and directed-energy defences (future proof), but in an open-ocean confrontation, Kraken groups risk being outmatched in sustained air superiority and missile volume exchange. However, in asymmetric, Arctic, or choke-point operations, the Kraken battle group—with advanced EW, cyber capabilities, and a doctrine of denial and distributed attack—would likely retain qualitative overmatch, leveraging stealth, drones, and AI-driven decision cycles to offset adversarial numerical superiority.

Borealis Core Integration

The Kraken-Class serves as a maritime command node for Project Borealis:

• Coordinated drone flight ops via Borealis Core AI

• Autonomous mission uploads and pre-set swarm deployments

• Shared situational awareness across air, land, and sea assets

• AI-based maintenance diagnostics and fleet resource allocation

Mission Role

• Carrier-based Drone Warfare & Surveillance

• Arctic Expeditionary Force Deployment

• Long-Range Strike Missions

• Integrated Humanitarian & Recon Operations

• Force Multiplication for Canadian Naval Task Groups

Strategic Advantage

• Fully CANZUK-aligned architecture (Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand)

• SMR-powered energy independence

• Encrypted battlefield networking and sovereign digital command stack

• Domestic manufacturing pipeline with Canadian industry & academia