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The French frigate MN Aquitaine at port on December 14th, 2013.
The Aquitaine-class frigates are a class of seventeen frigates that being built for the Marine Nationale. The Aquitaine-class will replace the nine D'Estienne d'Orves-class avisos, nine Tourville and Georges Leygues-class ASW frigates, and two Cassard-class air warfare destroyers on a one-to-one basis. They will be complimented by the Entente-class frigates.
Specifications[]
- Type: Multirole Frigate
- Service Period: 2011-Present
- Characteristics
- Length: 466 feet (142.04 meters)
- Beam: 66 feet (20.12 meters)
- Draught: 16 feet (4.88 meters)
- Displacement: 6,000 tons
- Complement: 145
- Crew: 108
- Propulsion: GE/Avio LM 2500 G4 gas turbine 32 MW, 2 EPM Jeumont 2,25 MW, 4 Diesel Generators MAN X 2.1 MW: CODLOG combination
- Range: 6,800 miles (10,994 kilometers) at 15 knots (27.78 km/hr)
- Speed: 30 knots (55.56 km/hr)
- Sensor Suite:
- Héraklès RDF
- SETIS combat system
- SOFRESUD Quick Pointing Devices "QPD"
- Sagem Najir fire control system for the 76mm gun
- Terma Scanter 2001 RDF
- Thales Artemis IRST
- Thales UMS 4410 CL hull ASDIC
- Thales UMS 4249 CAPTAS4 towed ASDIC
- Thales TUUM-6 Underwater Telephone
- Countermeasures
- NGDS decoy launcher
- SLAT anti-torpedo system
- Sigen RECM jammer
- Armament
- 1 x Otobreda 76mm Super Rapid Gun
- 1 x 16-cell SYLVER A43 VLS (fires Aster 15 AAMs)
- 1 x 16-cell SYLVER A70 VLS (fires SCALP Naval Cruise Missiles)
- 8 x MM40 Exocet Block III AShMs
- 2 x Nexter 20mm Narwhal remotely operate guns
- MU 90 torpedoes with Calzoni THS (Torpedo Handling System)
- Aircraft Carried: 1 x NHIndustries NH-90, can carry the AgustaWestland AW101 Merlin, Eurocopter AS.532 Cougar, and Eurocopter EC.725 Caracal
Unit Run[]
France[]
- MN Aquitaine (D650)
- MN Normandie (D651)
- MN Picardy (D652)
- MN Languedoc (D653)
- MN Auvergne (D654)
- MN Alsace (D655)
- MN Saintes (D656)
- MN Lorraine (D657)
- MN Corsica (D658)
- MN Maine (D659)
- MN Foix (D660)
- MN Béarn (D661)
- MN Touraine (D662)
- MN Orléanais (D663)
- MN Roussillon (D664)
- MN Flandre (D665)
- MN Gascogne (D666)
Egypt[]
- Tahya Misr
- Al-Galala
- Bernees
Morocco[]
- Mohammed VI (F701)