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| Class overview |
| Builders: |
- Arsenal de Vaudouan
- Chantiers Navals Courtillers
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| Operators: |
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| Preceded by: |
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| Cost: |
400,000,000 OSD |
| Built: |
2005 |
| In service: |
2008–present |
| Planned: |
20+ |
| Building: |
2 |
| General characteristics |
| Type: |
Air-defense frigate |
| Displacement: |
4,500 t |
| Length: |
127 m |
| Beam: |
17.5 m |
| Draught: |
4.5 m |
| Propulsion: |
- CODLAG arrangement of:
- 1 × Gas turbine
- × Electric motors
- 5 × Diesel generators
- 2 × controllable-reversible pitch propellers
- 1 × Hydrojet
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| Speed: |
29 knots (65 km/h) |
| Range: |
10,000 km @ 15 km/h |
| Complement: |
15 officers, 70 enlisted + 20 aircrew |
Sensors and
processing systems: |
- Combat Management and Information Systems:
- DCNS SENIT
- SEAO/OPSMER combat decision-making system
- Electronic aids to navigation:
- Tacan, AN/SRN-6
- Optronics:
- 1 × Sagem Vampir MB infra-red search and track system
- 2 × Selex NA-30S radar and optronic fire control system
- Radars:
- 1 × Héraklès multi-purpose radar
- 2 × Selex GEM SPN 753G(V) 10 navigation and helicopter radars
- Sonars:
- 1 × Hull sonar
- 1 × Towed sonar
- 1 × TUUM-4 underwater telephone
- Communications:
- Link 11
- Link 14
- Link 16
- Satellite links: Inmarsat, SYRACUSE 3-A
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Electronic warfare
& decoys: |
- Decoys/Counter measures/Jammers:
- 2 × NETTUNO 4100 ECM electronic jammers
- 2 × NGDS decoy launchers
- 1 × SLAT torpedo defense system
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| Armament: |
Missiles:
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| Aircraft carried: |
2 × AS365 Dauphin |
| Aviation facilities: |
Helicopter hanger |
