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From: wdr@wang.com (William Ricker)
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Subject: Re: Gulf Task Force
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Date: 15 Aug 90 03:27:12 GMT
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From: wdr@wang.com (William Ricker)
Canadian Forces Task Force, due to leave from Halifax NS this week,
as reported on CBC Radio's repeated on US NPR & Walden World News
Service (only commercial, AM, folk music station in US), in
interview with CF Admiral commanding CF Maritime Forces (Vancouver):

2xDD: Athabascan (sp?) of Iraqois class, and Protector
1 Supply ship -- Terra Nova
Under command of a Commodore.
(I may have the names Protector & Terra Nova reversed.  Apologies in
advance for any errors in my notes taken whilst driving listening to
the radio.)

Main armament is 2+3 Sea-King helicopters and anti-shipping
missiles, (supposedly also effective against Exocets, if I belived my
notes!).  The  supply ship has "ship to ship gunnery capability"
which I believe means it has a multi-purpose turret.

These ships are coming off an excelerated re-fit.  They now have
Vulcan Phalanx close-in weapons systems, upgrdade E-W "including decoy".
They figure to steam 7k miles
via Suez at cruising speed in 3 weeks; if things heat up, they'll
switch to full-steam.  If they have to take it around the horn (if
Egypt denies passage), it would be 11k miles.
-- 
/bill ricker/
wdr@wang.com a/k/a wricker@northeastern.edu
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