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| Career |
 |
| Class and type: |
Signals Intelligence Gathering vessel |
| Name: |
HMS Orion |
| Builder: |
Kockums |
| Launched: |
June 1984 |
| Homeport: |
Karlskrona |
| Identification: |
A201 |
| Status: |
In active service as of 2008 |
| General characteristics |
| Displacement: |
1,400 tons |
| Length: |
61.2 m |
| Beam: |
11.7 m |
| Draft: |
3.8 m |
| Propulsion: |
2 x Hedemora diesels |
| Speed: |
12 knots |
| Complement: |
8 officers and 18 conscripts |
For other ships of the same name, see
HMS Orion.
HMS Orion (A201) is a signals intelligence gathering vessel in the Swedish Navy.
HMS Orion was first launched in 1984. She was built with extensive support from the United States National Security Agency.[1] In November 1985 HMS Orion was rammed by a Soviet minesweeper, after she got too close to a Soviet naval exercise.[2] In 1998 Orion received a false bomb threat, which was widely covered in the Swedish newspapers. The ship is manned by conscripts, Swedish Royal Navy officers and personnel from the FRA (the Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment. HMS Orion belongs to the 1st Submarine division.
[edit] References
- ^ Secrets of Signals, Intelligence during the Cold War and beyond, p. 235; Matthew M. Aid, Cees Wiebes, Published 2001 by Taylor & Francis, ISBN 0714681822
- ^ Ibid.
