Montcalm
D 642
1982
(Klabautermann KLA-X-2A)
- Class: Georges Leygues - 7 Fregates Anti-Sous-Marines (FASM) of 1973
- Displacement: 3,830 tons standard
- Dimensions: 455.9 (oa) x 45.9 x 18.7 ft.
- Machinery: CODOG: 2 Rolls Royce Olympus TM3B gas turbines 46,200 hp = 30 knots
+ 2 SEMT Pilestick 16 PA6 V280 diesels 12,800 hp = 21 knots
- Missiles: Thomson-CSF Croatale Naval EDIR octuple launcher w/ 26 SAMs;
4 Aerospatiale MM 40 Exocet SSMs; 2 Matra Sadral PDMS sextuple Mistral launchers
- Guns: 1-100mm/55 Mod 68 CADAM automatic D.P., 2-30mm (2x1) Breda/Mauser
A.A. guns, 2-20mm (2x1) Oerlikon
- ASW weapons: 2 fixed catapult launchers model KD 59E w/ 10 ECAN L5 Mod 4
antisubmarine torpedoes
- Helicopters: 2 Lynx Mk 4
- Complement: 218
- Builder: Arsenal de Brest
- Keel Laid: 6 Dec 1975
- Launched: 31 May 1980
- Commissioned: 28 May 1982
- Decommissioned: 3 Jul 2017
- Notes: Montcalm was 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 "frigates", are registered as destroyers. She was involved in operations off Libya during the 2011 Libyan Civil War. The vessel was used to evacuate French and British citizens from the nation after fighting closed the airports. The seven members of her class were decommissioned from 2014 to 2022.
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