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Ouragan class landing platform dock
| Career | 
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|---|---|
| Builder: | Brest arsenal (DCN) |
| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 1959 |
| Launched: | 1961 |
| Commissioned: | |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Fate: | |
| Struck: | |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 5965 tons empty, 8500 tons loaded |
| Length: | 149 metres |
| Beam: | 21.50 metres |
| Draught: | 5.4 metres |
| Propulsion: | Power plant:
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| Speed: | 17 knots |
| Range: | 9000 nautical miles, at 15 knot speed, 15000 at 12 knots |
| Complement: | *12 officers,
|
| Armament: | *2 Simbad missile systems
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| Electronics: | 2 Racal-Decca radars |
| Planes | |
| Motto: | |
The Ouragan is a class of French landing platform docks operated by the French Navy.
The ships in that class are used for:
- the fast loading and unloading of landing craft, and other equipments, carrying troops and vehicles;
- carrying, supplying and operating helicopters transporting commandos or providing close support;
- transporting the mission crew;
- commanding a landing operation of limited scale.
The class comprises:
- Ouragan (Hurricane), L9021
- Orage (Storm), L9022
 Command bridge of the Ouragan |
 The landng craft Ouragan and Orage docked in Toulon |
10-26-2009 08:16:03
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