The Royal Canadian Navy frigate HMCS "Toronto" (FFH 333) launches a helicopter during a ship boarding exercise in the Alboran Sea east of Gibraltar with the U.S. Navy guided-missile cruiser USS "Leyte Gulf" (CG-55), flagship of the Standing NATO Maritime Group (SNMG) 2. SNMG-2 was participating in "Noble Justification", a wide-scale multinational series of exercises geared towards maintaining and improving NATO's ready forces' security and defense capabilities.