French Navy - Frigate MONTCALM D642

French frigate Montcalm D642 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Montcalm is a F70 type anti-submarine frigate of the French Marine Nationale. The French navy does not use the term destroyer for any of its ships; hence some of the larger ships, referred to as frigate, are registered as destroyers. She is the fourth French vessel named after the 18th century Marshal marquess Louis de Montcalm de Saint Véran. Montcalm was involved in operations off Libya during the 2011 Libyan Civil War.From 13 to 26 October 2014, the frigate took part in the large international operational exercise Catamaran 2014 that practiced an amphibious assault. Name: Montcalm Namesake: Louis de Montcalm de Saint Véran Builder: Brest arsenal Laid down: 5 December 1975 Launched: 31 May 1980 Commissioned: 28 May 1982 Status: in active service, as of 2015 Class and type: Georges Leygues-class frigate Displacement: 3,550 t 4,500 t full load Length: 139 m Beam: 14 m Height: 39.36 m Draught: 5.8 m Propulsion: CODOG 2 × Pielstick PA 6 V280 STD diesels, 5,200 hp 2 × Rolls Royce Olympus TM3B gas turbines, 26,000 hp 2 shafts with 4-blade controllable pitch propellers Speed: 30 knots on gas turbines 21 knots on diesels Range: 1,000 nmi at 30 kn on gas turbines 10,000 nmi at 15 kn 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 × Siadral systems - 2 × 6 Mistral missiles 1 × CADAM 100 mm main gun 2 × 20 mm guns 4 × 12.7 mm machine guns Anti-surface: 4 × Exocet MM40 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 to be replaced by MU90 torpedoes