Project SENTINEL

Project SENTINEL is a concept study for a balanced multi-mission corvette developed as a successor concept to the Royal Canadian Navy's Kingston-class minor war vessels. At roughly one hundred metres and twenty-six hundred tonnes, the platform sits deliberately between the Kingston-class she replaces and the larger River-class destroyer she is not intended to duplicate. The design is organised around affordable presence rather than high-end combat. A medium modular mission bay amidships accepts containerised payloads for mine-countermeasure work, surface and underwater unmanned systems, hydrographic survey, or disaster-response stores. Two RHIBs in protected stowage support boarding, constabulary, and search-and-rescue tasking. Aviation is UAV-first: the aft flight deck and compact UAV shelter are sized for medium VTOL air vehicles, with limited helicopter compatibility rather than a full hangar. Sensors and self-defence are restrained by design. SENTINEL is built for sovereignty patrol, maritime security, surveillance, and limited escort across Canada's Atlantic and Pacific approaches, with Arctic-adjacent seasonal capability. The studio's renderings emphasise the disciplined silhouette of a working naval combatant — small enough to be affordable, large enough to be useful.