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1 Weapons systems

Halifax-class frigates carry an array of weapons and sensor systems including 8 Harpoon long-range, anti-ship missiles, 16 Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), a Bofors 57mm rapid-fire gun, a 20mm Phalanx anti-missile close-in weapons system (CIWS), 8 x 12.7mm machine guns and 24 anti-submarine homing torpedoes. In addition, the ships can defend themselves using infra-red supression, shield decoys, chaff, flares, a towed acoustic decoy, and radar and sonar jamming devices. The ship's torpedo-carrying helicopter extends its range of operational effectiveness.

Plans are currently in place to upgrade the Sea Sparrow weapons systems, add towed sonar arrays, and add newer screws and anechoic tiles to reduce noise emission. It is believed HMCS Montréal has already been upgraded in the latter regard.

2 Technical specifications

• Speed: 29+ knots
  
• Endurance: 7,100 nautical miles at 15 knots ( dieselThis article is about the fuel. For other uses see diesel (disambiguation). Diesel is a product used as a fuel in a diesel engine invented by Rudolf Diesel, and perfected by Charles F. Petrodiesel One can obtain diesel from petroleum, which is called petr). 4,500 nautical miles at 15 knots ( turbineA turbine is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a fluid flow. The simplest turbines have one moving part, a rotor-blade assembly. Moving fluid acts on the blades to spin them and impart energy to the rotor. Early turbine examples are windmills and)
  
• Complement: 225 (including air detachment).
  
• Range: 9,500 nautical miles
  

Halifax-class frigates displace 5,200 tons and use two General Electric LM2500The General Electric LM2500 industrial and marine turboshaft gas turbine is a derivative of GE Aircraft Engines' CF6-50 aircraft engine. The LM2500 is offered in addition to the LM6000. It delivers 33,600 shaft horsepower with a thermal efficiency of 37 p gas turbineThis machine has a single-stage radial compressor and turbine, a recuperator, and foil bearings. A gas turbine is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a flow of combustion gas. It has an upstream compressor coupled to a downstream turbine, and a combs as their primary powerplants, with a total power of 95,000 standard horsepower (71 MW).

3 List of ships

There are twelve Halifax-class ships in Canadian service:

• HMCS Calgary
• HMCS Charlottetown
• HMCS Fredericton
• HMCS Halifax
• HMCS Montreal
• HMCS Ottawa
• HMCS Regina
• HMCS St. John's
• HMCS TorontoThe HMCS Toronto (FFH 333 is a Halifax-class multi-role patrol frigate of the Canadian Navy. It is named for the City of Toronto. It is the second ship to bear this name. See HMCS Toronto (K538) It was constructed by St. John Shipbuilding of St. John, New
• HMCS VancouverThe third HMCS Vancouver is a Halifax class frigate, launched in July 1989 as the second vessel of its class. Despite being the second Halifax class vessel launched, it was commissioned almost a month after its sister ship HMCS Toronto making it the third
• HMCS Ville de Quebec
• HMCS Winnipeg

In order of date of commission;

• HMCS Halifax (FFH-330)
• HMCS Toronto (FFH-333)
• HMCS Vancouver (FFH-331)
• HMCS Ville de Québec (FFH-332)
• HMCS Regina (FFH-334)
• HMCS Calgary (FFH-335)
• HMCS Montréal (FFH-336)
• HMCS Fredericton (FFH-337)
• HMCS Winnipeg (FFH-338)
• HMCS Charlottetown (FFH-339)
• HMCS St. John's (FFH-340)
• HMCS Ottawa (FFH-341)