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Encyclopedia > FS Courbet

Stealth frigate Courbet
Career French Navy Ensign
General Characteristics
Displacement: 3200 tonnes, 3600 tonnes fully loaded
Length: 125 m
Width: 15.4 m
Beam:
Draught: 4,8 m
Propulsion: 4 diesel SEMT Pielstick 12PA6V280 STC2, 21000 HP (15 400 kW)
Speed: 25 knots
Range: 7000 nautical miles at 15 knots, 9000 at 12 knots
Complement: 12 officers

68 non-commissioned officers
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Armament: 1 x 100 mm TR automatic gun

2 x 20mm turret, F2 type
1 x Crotale CN2 launcher (8 missiles on the launcher, 18 missiles in magasine)
16 Aster 15 missiles in vertical launchers
8 x Exocet MM40 block II missiles Aster is a surface-to-air missile manufactured by the European firm MBDA. The missile comes in two variants, the medium range Aster 15 and the longer range Aster 30. ... The Exocet is a French-built anti-ship missile made in various versions capable of being launched from surface ships and boats, submarines, and airplanes. ...

Shielding On sensitive areas (munition magasine and control centre)
Radars 1 x Air/Surface DRBV 15C sentry radar

1 x firing control radar for the 100mm gun
1 x DRBN34 navigation radar
1 x DRBN34 landing radar

Electronic Warfare 1 x Saïgon ARBG 1 radio interceptor

1 x ARBR 21 radar interceptor
2 x Dagaie Mk2 chaff launcher
1 x AN-SLQ 25 Nixie tugged noise maker
1 x Prairie Masker noise reduction system
Chaff is the seed casings and other inedible plant matter harvested with cereal grains such as wheat. ...

Satellite transmission 1 x Syracuse II

1 x Inmarsat

Planes 1 x 10-tonne helicopter (Panther or NH90)
Motto:

The Courbet is a large multi-mission stealth frigate of the French Marine Nationale. She is the third French vessel named after the 19th Century admiral Amédée Courbet . The Panther helicopter of the Cassard frigate transfering a light load to the Meuse Maneuvering of a Panther helicopter on the Cassard frigate The Eurocopter Panther is the military version of the Eurocopter Dauphin medium-weight multipurpose twin-engine helicopter and is manufactured by Eurocopter (originally by Aérospatiale). ... The NHI NH90 is a twin-engine, ten-ton multi-role helicopter manufactured by NHIndustries, a company established by Agusta, Eurocopter and Stork Fokker Aerospace. ... F-117 Stealth Fighter Stealth technology covers a range of techniques used with aircraft, ships and missiles, in order to make them less visible (ideally invisible) to radar and other detection methods. ... Sailing frigates were 4th, 5th, or 6th-rated ships in the rating system of the Royal Navy. ... Navy officers on the bridges of the frigate La Motte-Picquet French Navy summer uniforms Frigate division of the French Navy in Toulon harbour (Marine Nationale) is the naval arm of the French military and is the second-largest Western European navy (the largest being the Royal Navy). ...


The ships of the La Fayette type are The La Fayette class units are large multi-mission frigates built by DCN and operated by France (Marine Nationale), Saudi Arabia, Singapore (Republic of Singapore Navy) and Taiwan. ...

FS Surcouf (F-711) is a La Fayette-class frigate of the French Navy. ... The Aconit is a large multi-mission stealth frigate of the French Marine Nationale. ...

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