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French frigate Dupleix (D641)

French frigate Dupleix (D641)
Dupleix
Career (France) French ensign
Name: Dupleix
Builder: Brest arsenal
Laid down: 17 October 1975
Launched: 2 December 1978
Commissioned: 13 June 1981
Status: in active service, as of 2011
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

The Dupleix is a F70 type anti-submarine frigate of the French Marine Nationale. She is the fourth French vessel (beside also two French commercial ships) named after the 18th century Governor of Pondichéry and Gouverneur Général of the French possessions in India marquess Joseph François Dupleix.

Note: The French navy doesn't use the term "destroyer" for its ships; hence some large ships, referred to as "frigates", are registered as destroyers.

Categories:

  • Georges Leygues class frigates
  • Active frigates of France
  • Cold War frigates of France
  • 1978 ships
  • Ships built in France

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