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 Military porn? Yummy - SkyscraperCity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The three main missions of the Foudre class are the landing of infantry and armoured vehicles on unprepared coasts, mobile logistic support for naval forces and humanitarian missions.
The frigates are being built by Horizon SAS, a joint venture between Armaris (Thales and DCN) of France and Orrizonte Sistemi Navali (Fincantieri and Finmeccanica) of Italy.
The La Fayette class incorporates a number of stealth features - the sides of the vessel are sloped at 10° to minimise radar cross section, surfaces have been coated in radar-absorbent paint and the profiles of external features have been reduced.
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She was too old to be of much use in the Second World War that she spent mainly in the French West Indies.
She was a much improved design compared to earlier classes, featuring substantially increased protection and a much more powerful AA battery.
Four of the class were later rearmed with American Tartar missiles.
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 Fleet Week - New York City
Although classified as buoy tenders, each Keeper Class tender is capable of conducting a variety of missions, including icebreaking and law enforcement operations.
Halifax Class Frigate coordinates maritime interdiction operations in support of the international campaign against terrorism.
FS Tourville is a large high sea frigate specialized in anti-submarine warfare.
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 Tourville Class Frigate | Hms Keppel Leander Class Frigate | Arriyad Class Frigate | Key Frigate 325   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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 A quick look at the French Navy(Marine Nationale) - World Affairs Board
The two cruiser requirement evolved into the two large AAW destroyers of the Suffren class one now decommissioned and the other with its AAW armamnet deactivated to be replaced in the next coupla a years by the Forbin class AAW destroyers.
The ocean-going escort E-50/52 class ships were replaced by 17 of the much smaller coastal escorts of the A-69 class from the mid 1970s to the early 1980s.
The remaining nine were to nominally replace the the two ships of the two classes not being replaced by the first batch, the two Cassard DDGs(now to be replaced by the Forbin class) and eventually the five relatively young(Commissioned 1996-2001) La fayette class frigates.
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 French Navy
The Horizon frigate will also have anti-surface and anti-submarine capabilities to conduct an extensive range of missions: air defence as part of an aircraft carrier group, support of lightly armed or unarmed vessels or operations as a single unit.
French Floreal Class patrol frigate of 2600 tons displacement, launched in 1991, and officially described as 'Fregates de Surveillance' and designed to operate in the offshore zone in low intensity operations.
The French Navy operates two Foudre class landing platform dock ships, the Foudre (L9011) and the Siroco (L9012), which were commissioned in 1990 and 1998.The Foudre class is capable of landing and supporting a mechanised armoured regiment of the French rapid deployment force.
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Tourville, finding that the whole population was united as one man against him, contented himself with sending his galleys to ravage Teignmouth, now a gay watering place consisting of twelve hundred houses, then an obscure village of about forty cottages.
Their dwellings were burned; the venerable parish church was sacked, the pulpit and the communion table demolished, the Bibles and Prayer Books torn and scattered about the roads; the cattle and pigs were slaughtered; and a few small vessels which were employed in fishing or in the coasting trade, were destroyed.
Tourville had appeared on the coast of Devonshire, had put some troops on shore, and had sacked Teignmouth; but the only effect of this insult had been to raise the whole population of the western counties in arms against the invaders.
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In early 1977 building of series two of this class was put in hand and includes those after 109, all but one of which commissioned in the 1980s with the latest 164 in April 1987 and 165 in early 1990.
Class of six planned at two to three year intervals and at a total cost of 65 billion francs (1987 prices) which had risen to 79.8 billion francs by the end of 1988.
As this is the smallest class of SSNs ever designed except for the 400 ton NR-1 of the US Navy there has clearly been a marked reduction in the size of the reactor compared with the Le Redoutable class.
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 Busk's Navies of the World - 1859 - The French   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Most likely all of the 1st class frigates were begun as ships of the Belle Poule class with a displacement of 2550 tons, 54m40 long on deck, 14m10 beam, 7m10 depth of hold and 6m75 extreme draft.
The 2nd class 52 gun frigates were likely all Artemise class ships of 2340 tons displacement, 52m50 deck, 13m40 beam, 7m10 depth of hold and 6m50 extreme draft.
The 1837 regulations, which can have changed little before the adoption of rifled guns, called for a first class frigate to carry 60 guns: 28 30-pr long guns and 2 80-pr shell guns on the gun deck and 26 30-pr carronades and 4 30-pr shell guns on the spar deck.
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 James Dixon Timeline
The U.S.S. "Opkapi" (NCC-2732) and "Sydney" (NCC-2741) Mark I "Loknar" class frigates are refitted to the Mark II con- figuration.
The U.S.S. "Moscow" (NCC-2718) Mark I "Loknar" class frigate is refitted to the Mark II configuration.
The U.S.S. "Rome" (NCC-2726), "Halk" (NCC-2742), "Ilyra" (NCC-2743), "Mjorn" (NCC-2744), "Peking" (NCC-2710), "Daran V" (NCC-2721), and "Mjorn" (NCC-2744) Mark I "Loknar" class frigates are refitted to the Mark II configuration.
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It can be remedied only by a candid recognition of each change, by careful study of the powers and limitations of the new ship or weapon, and by a consequent adaptation of the method of using it to the qualities it possesses, which will constitute its tactics.
Those who recall how the blockade was maintained, and the class of ships that blockaded during great part of the war, know that the plan, correct under the circumstances, could not have been carried out in the face of a real navy.
The noble classes of Europe inherited from the Middle Ages a supercilious contempt for peaceful trade, which has exercised a modifying influence upon its growth, according to the national character of different countries.
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Between 1994 and 1996, the Tourville and the De Grasse were refitted with the modern SLASM anti-submarine system, an active Very Low Frequencies sonar.
Aft of the frigate De Grasse; the tugget sonar is clearly visible
The frigate De Grasse, harboured in Portsmouth, for the International Festival of the Sea (25th of August 2001).
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The major classes of escorts are the Ticonderoga-class cruisers and the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.
The British are building a dozen of the Daring-class, replacing the current Type 42 destroyers (early versions of which took part in the Falklands War) on a one-for-one basis, France and Italy are combining to build eight Horizon-class vessels.
Of the frigates listed, only the Sachsen, Bazan, and Jacob Van Heemskirk-class frigates can provide area air defense, and these ships are arguably closer to destroyers.
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Naval Crotale is installed on France’s Georges Leygues and Tourville class frigates, and the La Fayette class light frigates.
Scheduled to be in service in 2002, this frigate is to be equipped with the Castor 2J.
The first of this class, Al Riyadh, was launched a year earlier and was handed over to the Royal Saudi Arabian Navy on July 26, 2002.
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 USS Miranda Federation Starship Database   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The New Orleans Class is the predecessor of the Galaxy Class.
The New Orleans class was introduced as a counterpart to the large Nebula and Galaxy class starships.
When the Borg launched their invasion of the Federation in 2365 five ships of the New Orleans class were in service; three of these managed to reach Wolf 359 in time to join the fleet which engaged the Borg in that system.
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 French 100 mm naval gun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
modèle 100 TR (used on the La Fayette class frigates), mechanically similar to the 68, but with a stealth armour.
Also, the future Horizon CNGF frigates should be equipped with the 76 mm Oto-Breda gun.
100 mm modèle 68 turret on the Tourville
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 Sea Power International  April 2000
Accompanying her were the destroyer Gloucester, the frigate Monmouth, the nuclear-powered attack submarine Triumph, the auxiliary Fort George, and a four-ship mine-countermeasures group.
The task force--which includes the air-defense frigate Duquesne, the oiler Meuse, and the repair ship Jules Verne--was scheduled to be joined in the initial stage of the deployment by the antisubmarine frigate Tourville and the nuclear-powered attack submarine Emeraude.
A DFM (Demonstration and First of Class Manufacture) contract is scheduled to be placed with BAE Systems towards the end of this year, to meet an in-service date of 2007.
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These are the French variant of the Franco-Italian Horizon class.
This is the second time the two destroyers have been cancelled (the first time was in 1996).
These ships also displace 5600 tons, but will only cost $320 million each due to the fact that current plans call for the purchase of 17 ships (eight ASW variants and nine land-attack variants) to replace the Tourville and Georges Leyuges-class destroyers.
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 [sacw] [ACT] IPARMW No.12 (4 Feb 00)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Tourville has a displacement of 4,580 tonnes and has Exocet missiles and Lynx helicopters on board.
Briefing the press, the Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Sushil Kumar, said one of the core objectives of Springex-2000 was to test the Navy's new tactical doctrines which have been fine-tuned to cater to the ongoing new inductions of state-of-the-art weapons and ships.
Cruise missiles will also board the three new Khrivak class frigates which India is acquiring from Moscow.
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 Arsenal
I will also be issuing a conversion kit for the Heller Tourville Class destroyer.
This will improve the Heller kit and enable the modeler to depict Tourville in her 90's fit.
was one of the last of the 31 boats in the class to be built but had the most significant operational history.
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Frigates are mainly used for picket patrols where you speed up a while and then slow down to use you sonar more effectively.
Their "slow" speed (29 knots max in each case) does not prevent them from operating with the carriers at all: they are relatively fast when compared to the AOR that accompanies the battlegroup to refuel and replenish the escorts.
The French has recently sold Croatale to the PRC Luda class destroyers, but their navy is roughly on the same level as the USN in the late 60's except for area AAW which they lack.
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 Trafalgar200 - International Fleet Review
The de Gaulle was no different – accompanying her in the Solent were two surface combatants in the shape of the destroyer FS Tourville and the AS.565MA Panther-equipped air-defence frigate FS Jean Bart in addition to the FS Meuse replenishment ship plus the S606 FS Perle, the sixth and last boat of the Rubis-class hunter-killers.
The red and white Endurance-class icebreaker is capable of breaking 1m of ice and spends about six months a year away from her Portsmouth homeport to patrol and survey the Antarctic and South Atlantic whilst providing a military presence in the region.
They can also support flight operations for up to two of the Mk.95 Lynx although with only three ships in the class, two Lynx embarked at the same time would presumably be the exception and not the norm although the fleet will eventually number eight airframes which would permit “twin operations” on the MEKO frigates.
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 EmCon C: Warships of NATO and Warsaw Pact,1980s.
Air defense variant of the Georges Leygues class, without Crotale system and with reduced ASW capabilities, and with a Standard MR-1 SAM area defense system added.
World's smallest class of nuclear attack submarines, optimized for anti-surface rather than ASW operations.
The last two ships (also known as the Amethyste class) have ASW of 6.
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 International Festival of the Sea
Although only the latest of a large number of 'Arleigh Burke' class Anti-Air Warfare destroyers, she is only the third to be completed to the new flight IIA standard, which deletes some of the anti-ship weaponry in favour of a large, twin helicopter hangar.
Despite some statements on the aviation grapevine that the other USN ship present (the 'OH Perry' class "Samuel Eliot Morison") was carrying SH-60(s), the frigate is no longer aviation capable, only ever being able to support the now retired SH-2 Seasprite.
Following the festival, the Winston S. Churchill will be making goodwill visits to a number of UK ports, and if you get the chance, a visit is highly recommended, as the ship's crew appear to be quite proud of their British connection.
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 Castor 2B/C/J - Archived 5/2004
Application.  The Castor family of radars provides fire control for anti-aircraft and anti-surface vessel warfare.  Suitable platforms include medium-size and small naval craft such as frigates, missile attack craft, and patrol boats.
Operational Characteristics.  All versions are compact, lightweight, and suitable for installation on both small and large vessels.
CTM (Conduit de Tir Multi-sensor) is the Castor 2J adapted for the Crotale NG fire control system.  On La Fayette class frigates it serves as both gunnery and missile fire control.
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 Dry Dock Models Presents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
So admiral Tourville was faced with a numeric advantage of the English and Dutch fleet.
Along with the Courageuse, Concorde and the Fée, it was one of a series of four frigates being built at Rochefort (France).
Belonging to the so-called light frigates class, characterised by their speed and manoeuvrability; the Hermione was fitted out with 26 cannon capable of firing cannonballs weighing half a kilo (one pound) each.
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 Senerio - opinions please (World's Armed Forces Forum)
The British did have the Type 42 Destroyer which is a very good air defense vessel, and they had the Type 22 Frigate which aided them greatly, however the French could have brought some great guided missle destroyers to the war; The Tourville Class, The Georges Leygues Class, and The Cassard Class.
However I do know they're being retired in a favor of two super carriers in a few years, but there is talk of them keeping HMS Ark Royal for use in conjunction with the Royal Marines.
We were also trying to work out a deal with the U.S. to buy a Wasp Class for dirt cheap, but as far as I know that fell through.
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 ALNAVCO => WHAT'S NEW
The biggest warship ever built in Britain and the last BB of the Royal Navy; Originally scheduled to be completed in 1943, she was not finished until 1946.
These aircraft are the ones which were on the catapults of battleships and cruisers and add a nice and realistic finishing touch to your ships.
One of a large class of Frigates which, when well-commanded, were very successful vessels.
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