Operation FRICTION
Terra Nova was selected in August 1990 for deployment with Operation FRICTION, the CF contribution to Operation DESERT STORM (the Gulf War). She had her Mk.112 ASROC octuple launcher and her Mk. NC10 Limbo ASW mortars removed and was fitted with 8 X Harpoon anti-ship missiles and a Phalanx close-in weapon system (CIWS). She was also enhanced with three detachments of Javelin surface-to-air missile systems from 119 Air Defence Battery.
Terra Nova was deployed with the Canadian Naval Task Group, led by flagship HMCS Athabaskan and the supply ship HMCS Protecteur. The Task Group was assigned to the international coalition maritime interdiction force in the central Persian Gulf which consisted of a variety of coalition naval forces on station through the fall of 1990. After Operation DESERT STORM began in January, the Canadian Naval Task Group undertook escort duties for hospital ships and other vulnerable coalition naval vessels.
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