Canadian Navy leading NATO force in Med
Operation Active Endeavor by Standing NATO Maritime Group 1.
Canada's navy is leading counterterrorism operations in the Mediterranean as part of its command of a NATO high-readiness reaction force.
The Canadian-led naval flotilla recently sailed into the Mediterranean as part of Operation Active Endeavor, NATO's response to the war on terror.
''The role is to do counterterrorism, to go after the bad guys that are involved in the illegal smuggling of weapons, humans, and in some cases terrorists,'' Commodore Denis Rouleau said from his command ship HMCS Iroquois.
He took command in January of the alliance's naval force, dubbed the Standing NATO Maritime Group 1. Over the last nine months, it's been training and operating in the North Atlantic, the North Sea and the Mediterranean under Canadian command.
The five-ship NATO force is to keep an eye on the large amount of ship traffic in the Mediterranean, singling out suspicious vessels or conducting routine inspections...
...the force takes part in NATO exercises. It recently finished an exercise off the coast of Denmark designed to test methods to rescue civilians trapped in a war zone. Earlier this summer, the flotilla took part in exercises near the Cape Verde Islands off West Africa.
NATO nations take turns in commanding the task force, but that is limited to countries that operate command and control ships. Canada has such vessels with HMCS Iroquois and HMCS Athabaskan, which Rouleau operated from during the first part of the year.
More NATO nations, such as Spain and Denmark, are acquiring command and control ships so Canada will likely have to wait probably seven or eight years before having its turn again to assume command over the flotilla, he said.
Canada's command and control destroyers are aging and need replacement, according to a newly released report from the standing Senate committee on national security and defence. The report recommended the government move ahead with what is known as the Single Ship Replacement, a type of new vessel that would replace both the Iroquois-class destroyers and the navy's Halifax-class frigates.
Canada's navy is leading counterterrorism operations in the Mediterranean as part of its command of a NATO high-readiness reaction force.
The Canadian-led naval flotilla recently sailed into the Mediterranean as part of Operation Active Endeavor, NATO's response to the war on terror.
''The role is to do counterterrorism, to go after the bad guys that are involved in the illegal smuggling of weapons, humans, and in some cases terrorists,'' Commodore Denis Rouleau said from his command ship HMCS Iroquois.
He took command in January of the alliance's naval force, dubbed the Standing NATO Maritime Group 1. Over the last nine months, it's been training and operating in the North Atlantic, the North Sea and the Mediterranean under Canadian command.
The five-ship NATO force is to keep an eye on the large amount of ship traffic in the Mediterranean, singling out suspicious vessels or conducting routine inspections...
...the force takes part in NATO exercises. It recently finished an exercise off the coast of Denmark designed to test methods to rescue civilians trapped in a war zone. Earlier this summer, the flotilla took part in exercises near the Cape Verde Islands off West Africa.
NATO nations take turns in commanding the task force, but that is limited to countries that operate command and control ships. Canada has such vessels with HMCS Iroquois and HMCS Athabaskan, which Rouleau operated from during the first part of the year.
More NATO nations, such as Spain and Denmark, are acquiring command and control ships so Canada will likely have to wait probably seven or eight years before having its turn again to assume command over the flotilla, he said.
Canada's command and control destroyers are aging and need replacement, according to a newly released report from the standing Senate committee on national security and defence. The report recommended the government move ahead with what is known as the Single Ship Replacement, a type of new vessel that would replace both the Iroquois-class destroyers and the navy's Halifax-class frigates.
posted by Mark, Ottawa at 9:25 a.m.
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As long as the Single Ship Replacement isn't the DD(X), it's all good.
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