French ship Dupuy de Lôme (A759)
Dupuy de Lôme (A759), named after the 19th century engineer Henri Dupuy de Lôme, is a ship designed for the collection of signals and communications beyond enemy lines, which entered the service of the French Navy in April 2006. In contrast to Bougainville, the ship that she replaced, Dupuy de Lôme was specifically designed for sea intelligence, pursuant to the MINREM project (Moyen Interarmées Naval de Recherche ElectroMagnétique, "Joint Naval Resources for Electromagnetic Research").
Dupuy de Lôme underway | |
| History | |
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| France | |
| Name | Dupuy de Lôme |
| Namesake | Henri Dupuy de Lôme |
| Launched | 27 March 2004 |
| Commissioned | April 2006 |
| Identification |
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| Status | In active service |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 3,100 t (3,600 t full load) |
| Length | 101.75 m (333.8 ft) |
| Beam | 15.85 m (52.0 ft) |
| Draught | 4.9 m (16 ft) |
| Propulsion | 2 Mak 9M25 diesels |
| Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Range | 6,300 km (3,400 nmi; 3,900 mi) |
| Complement | 8 officers, 16 Warrant officers, 6 quarter-masters, 78 engineers |
| Sensors and processing systems | 2 DRBN38A navigation radars |
| Electronic warfare & decoys |
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| Armament | 2 × 12.7 mm M2 Browing machine guns |
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