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Montreal with a Bone

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In the great image below, recently released by the Royal Canadian Navy, you see the 5,000-ton Halifax-class patrol frigate HMCS Montréal (FFH 336) flanked by her embarked CH-148 Cyclone helicopter (Sikorsky S-92) while on NATO Op Reassurance.

You gotta love a great “bone in the teeth” shot

Commissioned in 1994 and based at CFB Halifax in Nova Scotia, Montreal and her companion Cyclone are currently assigned to Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 along with a single shore-based Royal Canadian Air Force CP-140 Aurora (P-3C Orion with the ASW gear of an S-3A Viking) detached from No. 405 Squadron RCAF out of CFB Greenwood.

HOISTEX!

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Kingfisher, the embarked RCAF CH-148 Cyclone maritime helicopter of the Canadian frigate HMCS/NCSM Halifax (FFH 330) conducts a HOISTEX with Royal Norwegian Navy (Sjøforsvaret) Ula-class/Type 210 submarine HNoMS Utvaer (S303) in the Norwegian Sea with French Aquitaine-class frigate Alsace in the background. The evolution was part of NATO Dynamic Mongoose earlier this month.

You gotta watch that static charge on such operations. Still, exhilarating stuff.