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View of future HMCS Regina, CPF-05, on the day before christening and launching ceremony.

MIL Davie Christens, Launches

Canadian Patrol Frigate Regina

At Shipyard In Quebec, Canada ees and family members joined 200 federal and provincial representa- tives and local guests to celebrate this important phase in the con- struction of the Canadian Patrol

Frigate 05 (CPF-05)..

In accordance with tradition, the ship's sponsor, Commodore Laraine

Orthlieb, Senior Naval Reserve

Advisor, cut the ribbon that released the bottle of champagne against the bow. The ship then slid down the launch ways and sailed at high tide into the St. Lawrence River.

The frigate will be drydocked for a few months in order to carry out work below the waterline. Once out of the drydock, all the outfitting work will be done alongside at MIL Davie, then sea trials will begin.

Vice Adm. John R. Anderson,

Commander of Maritime Command, and the Honorable Pierre Blais,

Minister of Consumer and Corpo-

Mil Davie, Inc. recently launched and christened Her Majesty's Cana- dian Ship (HMCS) Regina during a ceremony at the shipyard in Que- bec, Canada. About 8,000 employ-

Guy C. Veronneau, president and CEO of MIL

Davie and The MIL Group, is shown with Minister

Pierre Blais before beginning the ceremony on the dais. rate Affairs, Minister of State for

Agriculture and Minister respon- sible for Quebec region, attended the ceremony presided over by Guy

C. Veronneau, president and chief executive officer of MIL Davie and the MIL Group.

Within the Canadian Patrol Frig- ate (CPF) Project, in addition to CPF- 05 just launched, MIL Davie has two other frigates under construc- tion, which are CPF-03, and CPF- 06. The dimensions of the frigates are 440 feet in length, beam of 53.8 feet and navigational draft of 22.6 feet. The hull and superstructures are divided into 34 modules—their weight varies from 30 to 600 tons— that are erected one after the other on the launching berth. The impor-

The ship's sponsor, Commodore Laraine

Orthlieb, receives flowers presented to her at the beginning of the ceremony, tant construction stages are: keel- laying, launching, tests and trials, delivery and commissioning

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Navy To Build

Nuclear Simulator

The Navy will continue with plans to install a nuclear blast simulator on a barge in the Gulf of Mexico, despite the ending of the Cold War.

To be stationed off the coast of

Alabama, the simulator will fire elec- tromagnetic pulses at passing Navy warships to determine if the ships' combat systems could survive a nuclear explosion in space.

Lucas Aerospace Joins

Team To Build Navy's AIWS

Texas Instruments (TI) and LTV are being joined by Lucas Aerospace in building the Navy's Advanced In- terdiction Weapon System (AIWS).

The boat tail assembly and the control actuation system for the

AIWS will be designed and built by

Lucas.

The Navy announced earlier that it had selected the Tl-led team to build the AIWS, which will replace the Navy's Paveway and Skipper precision guided weapon systems.

ASW Trainer Bought

By Japanese Navy

A $8.25 million foreign military sales contract has been awarded by the Naval Training Systems Center to CAE-Link Corp. for production of a surface ship antisubmarine war- fare (ASW) Training System for the

Japanese Navy.

Designated Device 14A12J, this training system will be similar to the ASW team trainers CAE-Link builds for the Navy. It will enable combat information center, bridge, sonar and aircraft operators to learn essential ASW engagement proce- dures in a simulated multi-threat, multi-platform tactical environ- ment.

Delivery to the Japanese Mari- time Self Defense Forces is expected in mid-1994.

Navy Contract Worth $ 15.3 Million Awarded

Ingalls Shipbuilding

The U.S. Navy has awarded

Litton's Ingalls Shipbuilding divi- sion a $15.3 million contract modifi- cation to continue providing engi- neering and planning support to the

Navy's Arleigh Burke (DDG-51)

Class Aegis guided missile destroyer program. Ingalls, based in

Pascagoula, Miss., currently has construction contracts for eight of the ships.

The support contract is now in the third element of a six-year pro- gram, which began in December 1988, with a total projected value of about $100 million.

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