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Originally Posted by I-Hate-Hulse
So other than the Aurora, there doesn't seem to be a lot of ASW capabilities from Canada. Worth nothing that the De Wolf and Hopson have flight decks which might be able to host a Cyclone (assuming the ASW capabilities for that have been completed...) Perhaps the surface search is the focus for us.
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What are the ASW capabilities that would be helpful that the helicopters can deploy that the ships wouldn't have? When I think of helicopter ASW I think of closing distance and dropping torpedoes or sonar buoys but I don't really know what they're capable of beyond that. Given the general location is known, how many planes would need to be dropping buoys to be helpful in the search?