FS Cassard - D614




Name: Cassard
Namesake: Jacques Cassard
Builder: DCNS S.A.
Laid down: 3 September 1982
Launched: 6 February 1985
Commissioned: 29 July 1988
Identification: D 614
Status: in active service
General characteristics
Class and type: Cassard-class frigate
Displacement: 4500 t
Length: 139 m (456 ft)
Beam: 14 m (46 ft)
Draught: 6 m (20 ft)
Propulsion:
  • 4 Pielstick PA6 BTC disesel engines
  • 2 fixed pace propellers
  • 4 diesel-alternators (3400 kW) for electrical plant
Speed: 25 knots (46 km/h)
Range: 8,000 nautical miles (15,000 km) at 17 knots (31 km/h)
Troops: room for special forces
Complement:
  • 22 officers
  • 142 non-commissioned officers
  • 80 enlisted personnel
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • DRBV26C sentry radar
  • 1 DRBJ11B tri-dimensional air sentry radar
  • 1 DIBV2A infra-red alert system
  • 2 DRBN34 navigation and landing radar
  • 1 DUBV 24C hull sonar
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
  • 1 ARBR 17 radar detector
  • 1 SAIGON radio emission detector
  • 1 ARBB 33 jammer
  • 2 SAGAIE NG decoy launchers
  • 2 DAGAIE decoy launchers
  • 1 Syracuse II system
Armament:
Aircraft carried: 1 × Panther anti-submarine helicopter

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