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Old Mar 25, 2014, 10:13 am
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alex_b
 
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Originally Posted by JDiver
The UK is sending the HMS Echo.
Just to note HMS Echo is a "multi-role hydrographic survey ship".

Echo and her sister ship are designed to conduct survey operations in support of submarines or amphibious operations. She can provide almost real-time tailored environmental information, and also has a secondary role as a mine countermeasure tasking authority platform, for which she is capable of embarking a dedicated mine counter measures command team.
She seems pretty much ideal to this kind of task.
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