Georges Leygues class frigate
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 Dupleix |
|
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Builders: | Brest arsenal |
| Operators: |  French Navy |
| Succeeded by: | FREMM |
| In commission: | 10 December 1979 |
| Completed: | 7 |
| Active: | Georges Leygues Dupleix Montcalm Jean de Vienne Primauguet Lamotte-Picquet Latouche-Tréville |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 4,500 tons |
| Length: | 139 m |
| Beam: | 14 m |
| Draught: | 5.7 m |
| Propulsion: | CODOG 2 x Rolls-Royce Olympus TM3B gas turbines 2 x SEMT Pielstick 16PA6-V280 diesel engines 52,000/10.400 bhp |
| Speed: | 30 knots |
| Range: | 8,500 miles |
| Complement: | 235 |
| Armament: | Crotale Navale EDIR octuple launcher (26 x surface-to-air missiles) 4 x MM38/MM40 Exocet anti-ship missiles 2 x Simbad twin launcher (Mistral surface-to-air missiles) 1 x Creusot Loire Compact 100mm/55 Mod 68 DP gun 2 x 30 mm Breda-Mauser or 20mm F2 anti-aircraft guns 2/4 x 12.7 machine guns 2 x fixed torpedo tubes (10 x L5 mod 4 or MU 90 torpedoes) |
| Aircraft carried: | 2 x Westland Lynx helicopters |
The Georges Leygues class (Type F70) is a class of anti-submarine frigates of the French Navy. They are polyvalent (multi-role), due to their Exocet and Crotale missile complement, making them especially suitable for defense of strategic positions, demonstrations, or highseas escorts.
The superstructures were built as to optimise resistance against nuclear explosion blasts.
The F70 is internationally labelled an "anti-submarine destroyer" (hence the "D" in the hull numbers), though the French don't use the term and refer to the ships as "frigates".
The last three ships of the class had their bridges raised one deck to overcome problems experienced by the first four in bad weather, as well as being equipped with DSBV 61 passive linear towed array sonar and several other upgraded systems.[1]
The Cassard class AA frigates are an air defence variant of the Georges Leygues class.
[edit] References
- ^ Miller, David; Chris Miller (1986). Modern Naval Combat. USA: Salamandar Books, pp. 100-101. ISBN 0-517-61350-6.
