Halifax-class/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Canadian Navy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Destroyer [r]: While the definition has evolved constantly, it is a multipurpose surface warship, generally less powerful than a cruiser, with capabilities against ship, aircraft, submarine, land, and sometimes ballistic missile targets ^[e] 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]: An increasingly common light naval dual-purpose gun; modern versions are usually full automatic and thus can deliver a volume of fire equivalent to guns of larger caliber ^[e]
• RIM-162 ESSM [r]: In U.S. Navy service, a short-to-medium range surface-to-air missile of which four will fit in a vertical launch system cell; derived from the AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missile ^[e]
• AGM-84 Harpoon [r]: A U.S. developed anti-shipping missile that can be launched from aircraft, ships and submarines ^[e]
• 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]: A system to help naval helicopters operate from destroyers, cruisers, and other warships without a flight deck; it involves a cable system, with helicopter components and a high-power winch on the ship, for stabilizing landing and hover; known as RAST (helicopter) ^[e]

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]

Other related topics

• Operation UNIFIED PROTECTOR [r]: NATO operation to carry out the no-fly zone and arms embargo provisions of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 against the Muammar Gaddafi regime in Libya; successor to U.S.-led Operation ODYSSEY DAWN; expected to be short-term ^[e]
• United States Central Command [r]: Unified Combatant Command responsible for U.S. operations in the Middle East and Southwest Asia, now under the command of General James Mattis ^[e]