Corsaire-class

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File:Corsaireasw.png
Class overview
Builders:
  • Arsenal de Vaudouan
  • Chantiers Navals Courtillers
Operators:
Preceded by:
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
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
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
  • Decoys/Counter measures/Jammers:
  • 2 × NETTUNO 4100 ECM electronic jammers
  • 2 × NGDS decoy launchers
  • 1 × SLAT torpedo defense system
Armament:
Aircraft carried: 2 × AS365 Dauphin
Aviation facilities: Helicopter hanger