Sub has no torpedoes

By By JEFFREY SIMPSON / Staff Reporter
The Halifax Chronicle Herald

HMCS Windsor will be without torpedoes until 2006, a high-ranking Canadian naval officer says.

"That's probably right," Capt. Dean McFadden, who commands Atlantic operations, told reporters on board the submarine as it conducted exercises off the coast of Nova Scotia.
The Halifax-based submarine, which was originally supposed to be ready for operations in July 2001, began a year of testing last spring.

While the sub is not yet armed with torpedoes, which will be its only external weapons, it has embarked on several official missions.