Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship Montréal, one of several warships steaming on the dark waters off the west coast of Scotland in precise formation, recently took part in a multinational missile defence exercise “At Sea Demonstration 2015” (ASD 2015).
Connected by the latest communication technologies, coalition ships shared a common picture of over 14.7 million square kilometres of the North Atlantic.
HMCS Montréal’s sailors were primed for action when drones, simulating cruise missile threats, launched from ashore. The “missiles” were immediately detected by coalition radars and the information was shared instantly throughout the fleet.
The multinational exercise that took place off the Hebrides Islands of Scotland in October 2015. The exercise was conducted under the Maritime Theater Missile Defence Forum (MTMD), an international group that aims to improve maritime integrated air and missile defence capabilities within a coalition context. Participants included navies from Canada, France, Italy, Norway, Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.
HMCS Montréal, based out of Halifax, Nova Scotia, deployed on 14 September, 2015 and is expected to return to Halifax in late November.
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