HMAS Orion
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HMAS Orion was an Oberon-class submarine of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). One of six submarines ordered by the RAN during the 1960s, Orion, named after the constellation in a break from ship-naming tradition, was built in Scotland and commissioned in 1977. Orion was one of two Oberon-class submarines designed for intelligence gathering and conducted regular patrols in Soviet, Indian and Chinese waters to gather information regarding enemy capabilities.
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Orion submarine; S 61; S 61 Orion; S61
length 88.5 metre, draft 5.6 metre, beam 8.1 metre,
Royal Australian Navy, Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company,
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