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Parent topics
- Canadian Navy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Destroyer [r]: Add brief definition or description While these are designated "frigate", they are of destroyer size and capability, larger than corvettes.
Subtopics
Ships
- HMCS Halifax [r]: Add brief definition or description
- HMCS Vancouver [r]: Halifax-class "multimission patrol frigate" of destroyer size, assigned by the Canadian Navy to marine interdiction in the Persian Gulf [e]
- HMCS Fredricton [r]: Canadian Halifax-class "multimission patrol frigate" of destroyer size, serving in marine interdiction in the Persian Gulf [e]
- HMCS Charlottestown [r]: Assigned to NATO Maritime Group 1, carrying out Operation Unified Protector arms embargo blockade against the Muammar Gaddafi government of Libya; a Halifax-class "multimission patrol frigate" of destroyer capability [e]
Weapons
- 57mm naval gun [r]: Add brief definition or description
- RIM-162 ESSM [r]: Add brief definition or description
- AGM-84 Harpoon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Phalanx close-in weapons system [r]: A 20mm autocannon system originally for shipboard final defense against subsonic anti-shipping missiles, obsolescent in that role but being deployed for land-based counter-rocket, artillery and mortar (C-RAM) defense against guerrilla rockets. [e]
- Mark 46 torpedo [r]: Lightweight antisubmarine torpedo, primarily air-dropped but also ship-launched for close-in defense [e]
Aircraft
- Sea King helicopter [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Recovery Assist, Secure and Traverse [r]: Add brief definition or description
Electronics
- AN/SPS-49(V)5 [r]: A long-range air search radar, part of the AEGIS battle management system only on Ticonderoga-class cruisers, not Burke-class destroyers; non-AEGIS use on Canadian Halifax-class frigates [e]
- UYK-501 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- HC150 Sea Giraffe [r]: Add brief definition or description
- AN/SQS-510 [r]: Add brief definition or description hull-mounted sonar and incorporates an acoustic range prediction system
- UYS-503 [r]: Made by General Dynamics-Canada, a sonobuoy processing system used on the Canadian Halifax-class [e]