HMS Orion (A201)

HMS Orion (A201)

HMS "Orion" (A201) is a signals intelligence gathering vessel in the Swedish Navy. [cite web | url = http://www.fra.se/english.shtml | title = Försvarets radioanstalt (National Defence Radio Establishment) website | accessdate=2007-07-30]

HMS "Orion" was first launched in 1984. She was built with extensive support from the United States National Security Agency. [Secrets of Signals, Intelligence during the Cold War and beyond, p. 235; Matthew M. Aid, Cees Wiebes, Published 2001 by Taylor & Francis, ISBN 0714681822] In November 1985 HMS "Orion" was rammed by a Soviet minesweeper, after she got too close to a Soviet naval exercise. [Ibid.] 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.

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