Gulf War Modification
HMCS Athabaskan (DDG 282) was deployed on Operation Friction, the Canadian Forces contribution to the international coalition naval task force serving in Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm (the Gulf War).
Athabaskan was the flagship of the Canadian Naval Task Group and was hurriedly modified at CFB Halifax in August 1990 prior to the deployment. These modifications included a new mine-avoidance sonar, a Phalanx 20-mm CIWS (mounted over the Limbo mortar well, which was made inoperative) and shoulder launched Blowpipe and Javelin missiles.
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