Frigate Aquitaine (D650)
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Basic information
Namesake:
Aquitaine is a traditional region of France, and was an administrative region of France until 1 January 2016.
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Ship measurements
Displacement:
6,000 t
Length:
142 m
Beam (waterline):
19.8 m
Draft:
4.9 m
Machine
Propulsion system:
Propulsion:
- 1 * 32 MW gas turbine General Electric/Avio LM2500+G4
- 2 * 2.5 MW electric motors Jeumont Electric
- 4 * diesel generators MTU Series 4000 (2,2 MW everyone)
- 2 * shafts, driving controllable pitch propellers
- 1 * 1 MW bow thruster
Speed:
27 knots
Range:
6,000 nmi (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Personnel
Complement:
140
Ship's company:
108
Combat assets
Boats & landing craft:
- 1 * ECUME NG (9.3 m)
- 1 * EDO NG (6.7 m)
Electronics:
- Thales Héraklès multi-purpose passive electronically scanned array radar
- Navigation radar Terma Scanter 2001
- Sonar Thales 4110 CL
- Sonar Thales CAPTAS-4 (UMS 4249)
- Thales ARBR 21 (DR 3000S) radar warning receiver
- Thales Artemis infrared search and track system
- 2 * Sigen RECM Radar countermeasure
- Anti-torpedo decoys
- SETIS Combat System
- Sagem/Safran NAJIR fire control system (76/62 gun)
Armament:
- 8 * MBDA MM-40 Exocet block 3 anti-ship missiles
- 16-cell MBDA SYLVER A70 VLS for 16 MBDA SCALP Naval land-attack cruise missiles
- 16-cell MBDA SYLVER A43 VLS for 16 MBDA Aster 15 missiles
- 24 missiles Mica VL (optional)
- 1 * Leonardo OTO Melara 76 mm SR gun
- 3 * Nexter 20mm Narwhal remote weapon systems
- 2 * double Leonardo (WASS) B-515 launcher for MU 90 torpedoes
Aircraft:
- 1 * NH90 helicopter
- Helicopter pad
- Hangar
Aquitaine is a frigate in service with the French Navy. She is the lead ship of her class of French frigates, which in turn were developed by the FREMM multipurpose frigate program.
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