French frigate La Motte-Picquet (D645)
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| Name: | La Motte-Picquet |
| Builder: | Brest arsenal |
| Laid down: | 12 February 1982 |
| Launched: | 6 February 1985 |
| Commissioned: | 18 February 1988 |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2012[update] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Georges Leygues-class frigate |
| Displacement: | 3,550 t (3,494 long tons) 4,500 t (4,429 long tons) full load |
| Length: | 139 m (456 ft 0 in) |
| Beam: | 14 m (45 ft 11 in) |
| Height: | 39.36 m (129 ft 2 in) |
| Draught: | 5.8 m (19 ft 0 in) |
| Propulsion: | CODOG 2 × Pielstick PA 6 V280 STD diesels, 5,200 hp (3,878 kW) 2 × Rolls Royce Olympus TM3B gas turbines, 26,000 hp (19,388 kW) 2 shafts with 4-blade controllable pitch propellers |
| Speed: | 30 knots (35 mph; 56 km/h) on gas turbines 21 knots (24 mph; 39 km/h) on diesels |
| Range: | 1,000 nmi (1,900 km) at 30 kn (35 mph; 56 km/h) on gas turbines 10,000 nmi (19,000 km) at 15 kn (17 mph; 28 km/h) on diesels |
| Complement: | 20 officers 120 non-commissioned officers 95 men |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
Detection: • 1 Air/surface sentry radar DRBV51C • 1 Air sentry radar DRBV 26 • 1 Fire control radar DRBC 32E • 2 Navigation radar KH 1007 • 1 Hull sonar DUBV 23 • 1 Towed sonar DUBV 43C Tactical information: • SENIT 4 • SEAO/OPSMER |
| Electronic warfare and decoys: |
• 2 Radar interceptors ARBR 16 • 2 × Syllex chaff launchers |
| Armament: | Anti-air: • 1 × Crotale EDIR system - 8 missiles on launcher + 18 stored • 2 × Simbad systems - 2×2 Mistral missiles • 1 × CADAM 100 mm main gun • 2 × 20 mm guns • 4 × 12.7 mm machine guns Anti-surface: • 4 × Exocet MM38 missiles Anti-submarine: • 10 × L5 Mod4 torpedoes • 2 × L5 torpedo launchers |
| Aircraft carried: | 2 × Lynx WG13 Mk.4 helicopters, each with: • 1 × DUAV4 sonar • Rheseda system for transmission of acoustic data • 12 × Mark 46 torpedoes |
La Motte-Picquet is a F70 type anti-submarine frigate of the French Marine Nationale. She is the fourth French vessel named after the 18th Century admiral count Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte. As of January 2012[update] she is serving in the Persian Gulf.
On 22 August 2007, she took custody of the Danish freighter Danica White which had been captured by pirates on the 3 June.
[edit] 2011/12 tour
She left Brest on 9 November 2011 for active duty in the Indian Ocean and was refuelled by the US replenishment ship USNS Patuxent on 10 January 2012.[1] On 22 January she passed through the Straits of Hormuz with the British frigate HMS Argyll (F231) and a US battlegroup centred on the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72).[2]
[edit] References
- Frégate La Motte-Picquet on netmarine.net
- ^ "Un pétrolier américain ravitaille la frégate La Motte-Picquet". French Ministry of Defence. 11 January 2012. http://www.defense.gouv.fr/marine/actu-marine/un-petrolier-americain-ravitaille-la-fregate-la-motte-picquet.
- ^ Stringer, David (24 January 2012). "UK could send more navy assets to Strait of Hormuz". Associated Press. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hqcj1htP0qGCzb_C__8ONDEt9mhw.
[edit] External links
Media related to La Motte-Picquet (D645) at Wikimedia Commons
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