French frigate Aquitaine

Aquitaine is a frigate in service with the French Navy. She is the lead ship of her class of French frigates, which in turn were developed by the FREMM multipurpose frigate program.[2]

Aquitaine moored in Bordeaux in 2013
History
France
Name:	Aquitaine
Builder:	DCNS, Lorient
Laid down:	2007
Launched:	29 April 2010
Completed:	2012
Commissioned:	23 November 2012
Identification:	Pennant number D650
Status:	Active
General characteristics
Class and type:	Aquitaine-class frigate
Displacement:	6,000 tons
Length:	466 ft (142.0 m)
Beam:	65 ft (19.8 m)
Draught:	16 ft (4.9 m)
Sensors and processing systems:	Héraklès multi-purpose passive electronically scanned array radar CAPTAS-4 towed-array sonar UMS 4110 CL hull-mounted sonar[1]
Armament:	1 x 76 mm (3 in) dual-purpose gun 3 x 20 mm (0.8 in) cannon 4 x FREMM-ASW with 16-cell MBDA SYLVER A43 VLS for 16 MBDA Aster 15 missiles 16-cell MBDA SYLVER A70 VLS for 16 MBDA MdCN naval land-attack cruise missiles 8 x MM40 Exocet anti-ship missiles 2 x twin 324 mm (13 in) torpedo tubes

Service

Aquitaine was developed as part of a joint Italian-French program known as FREMM, which was implemented to develop a new class of frigates for use by various European navies. Construction on the ship began in 2007 and was completed in 2012.[2][3]

In April 2018 Aquitaine participated in the 2018 bombing of Damascus and Homs.[4][5]

References

1. https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2020/11/photos-naval-group-launches-lorraine-its-final-fremm-frigate/
2. "La Marine réceptionne la FREMM Aquitaine". www.defense.gouv.fr. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
3. ARG. "Aquitaine Class Frigate | Military-Today.com". www.military-today.com. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
4. Youssef, Nancy A.; Bender, Michael C. (2018-04-14). "U.S., U.K. and France Launch Strikes Against Syria". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
5. Lendon, Brad. "Weapons the US, UK and France used to target Syria". CNN. Retrieved 2018-04-14.