Career
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
Draft:	5.4 metres
Propulsion:	Power plant: L9021: 2 SEMT-Pielstick 12 PC 2 V diesels, total 8600 horsepower (6 325 kW) L9022: 2 SEMT-Pielstick 12 PC 2.1 V400 diesels, total 9400 horsepower (6 910 kW) 1920 kW electrical power 2 variable-thread propellers
Speed:	17 knots
Range:	9000 nautical miles, at 15 knot speed, 15000 at 12 knots
Complement:	12 officers, 78 warrant officers 115 enlisted crew
Armament:	2 Simbad missile systems 4 12.7 machine guns L9021: 2 Bofors 40-AA cannons L9022: 2 30-AA Breda-Mauser cannons
Electronics:	2 Racal-Decca radars
Planes
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The ships in that class are used for:

• the fast loading and unloading of landing craft, and other equipment, 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: Landing craft Rapière LCU 1656 departs USS Bataan (LHD-5) well deck during Hurricane Katrina relief operations. ... The Bell 206 of Canadian Helicopters Robinson Helicopter Company (USA) R44, a four seat development of the R22 A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more horizontal rotors (propellers). ... The French Navy commando Jaubert storm the Alcyon in a mock assault. ...

• Ouragan (Hurricane), L9021
• Orage (Storm), L9022

The two ships of this class are suppousedly due for transfer to the Argentine Navy in 2006 and 2007. Argentine Navy Jack The Navy of the Argentine Republic (Armada de la República Argentina, ARA) is the navy of Argentina. ...

Command bridge of the Ouragan Image File history File links FS_Ouragan_1. ...

The landing craft Ouragan and Orage docked in Toulon Image File history File links FS_Ouragan_2. ...