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FS Latouche-Tréville

Career French Navy Ensign
General Characteristics
Displacement: 3550 t tonnes, 4500 tonnes fully loaded
Length: 139 m
Width: 14 m
Beam:
Draught: 5.80 m
Tirant d'air: 39.36 m
Propulsion: CODOG (COmbined Diesel Or Gaz): 2 diesels Pielstick PA 6 V280 STD

Diesel power: 5200 HP (3824 kW).
TAG Motorisation : 2 Rolls Royce Olympus TM3B gas turbines, 26000 HP (19120 kW).
2 propellers with 4 orientable fins each
Total power: 52000 HP (38240 kW).

Speed: 30 knots on TAG, 21 knots on diesel
Range: On TAG : 1000 nautical miles at 30 knots

On Diesel : 10000 nautical miles at 15 knots

Complement: 20 officers

120 non-commissioned officers
95 men

Armament: Anti-air:
  • 1 Crotale EDIR system - 8 missiles on launcher + 18 stored
  • 2 Simbad systems - 2 x 2 Mistral missiles
  • 1 CADAM 100mm main gun
  • 2 x 20mm guns
  • 4 x 12.7mm machine guns

Anti-surface:

Anti-submarine:

  • 10 L5 Mod4 torpedoes
  • 2 L5 torpedo launchers
  • 12 MK46 torpedoes for the Lynx WG13 helicopter
Electronic Warfare 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 tugged sonar DUBV 43C

Electronic Warfare:

  • 2 radar intereceptors ARBR 16
  • 2 Syllex chaff launchers

Tactical information:

  • SENIT 4
  • SEAO/OPSMER
Planes: 2 Lynx WG13 Mk4 helicopters, with each:
  • 1 DUAV4 sonar
  • Rheseda system for transmission of acoustic data
  • 12 MK46 torpedoes

The Latouche-Tréville is a F70 type anti-submarine frigate of the French Marine Nationale. She is the third French vessel named after the 19th century politician and admiral Louis-René Levassor de Latouche Tréville .

There are seven ships in the F70 class :

Note: The French navy does not use the term "destroyer" for its ships. Thus, some large ships, referred to as "frigates", are registered as destroyers.

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