Canada keeping Mk 41 VLS for possible use on Single Class Surface Combatant Project

Canada has retain the Mark 41 Vertical Launching System (Mk 41 VLS) from its retired Iroquois-class destroyers and will examine if the system should be installed on the Single Class Surface Combatant Project.

By Jim.henderson (Own work) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons

The Mk 41 was installed on four destroyers under the Tribal Class Update and Modernization Project (TRUMP) in the 1990s. This gave the ships the ability to fire 29 SM-2 Block III anti-air missiles.

The Single Class Surface Combatant Project will replace the Iroquois class and Halifax class warships towards the end of the decade.

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