La Fayette
F 710
2007
(Klabautermann KLA-X-6)
- Class: La Fayette - 5 Frégates Légère Furtive of 1988-1992
- Displacement: 3200 tons trials; 3600 tons full load
- Dimensions: 410 x 51 x 16 ft
- Machinery: 2 shafts, 4 SEMT-Pielstick 12PA 6V280 diesels, 21000 bhp = 25 kts
- Missiles: 1 Crotale CN2 launcher (8 missiles plus 18 reloads); 16 Aster 15 missiles in vertical launchers; 8 MM40 Exocet SSM
- Guns: 1-100mm mod 100 TR, 2-20mm F2 (2x1)
- Helicopters: 1 Panther or NH90
- Complement: 141
- Builder: Arsenal de Lorient
- Keel Laid: 15 Dec 1989
- Launched: 13 Jun 1992
- Commissioned: 22 Mar 1996
- Notes: The La Fayette class (also known as FL-3000 for "Frégate Légère de 3,000 tonnes", or FLF for Frégate Légère Furtive) is a class of general purpose frigates built by DCNS in the 1980s/90s and still operated by the French Navy today. Derivatives of the type are in service in the navies of Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and Taiwan.
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