The Navy Today
Continuing Commitments

Beginning in the 1990s, long-standing efforts to renew the ships and equipment of Canada's navy began to produce results, with new vessels entering service. At the same time, the navy continued to fulfill national commitments to alliance operations and, following terrorist attacks on the United States on 11 September 2001, to "the war on terror".

Model, HMCS Halifax

Paramax Electronics Incorporated, one of the prime contractors for the Canadian Patrol Frigate (CPF) project, commissioned this model of HMCS Halifax.

Made while the frigates were still being planned and developed, the model differs from the ships as they finally appeared. Paramax, a Montreal-based subsidiary of Sperry (later Unisys) Corporation, received a $1.25 billion contract for electronics and other equipment for the CPF project. In the summer of 1988, the Canadian government expelled eight Soviet diplomats, some of whom had been involved in an effort to infiltrate Paramax Electronics to obtain information about equipment destined for the CPFs.

Model Ship, Halifax Class Frigate
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