The Tourville Class Destroyer type is a class of large high-sea (Blue water) Destroyers of the French Navy specialised in anti-submarine warfare. They have anti-air and anti-surface capabilities.
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.
The ships are an enlarged version of the F65 class frigate Aconit. They have two shaft steam turbine machinery and a double hangar for two Lynx helicopters. They were the first ships fitted with the marine version of the Crotale surface to air missile system. A Malafon anti submarine missile system was fitted when the ships were built but this was removed during refits in the late 1980s.
| Class overview | |
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| Name: | F67 |
| Succeeded by: | FREMM multipurpose frigate |
| Completed: | 3 |
| Active: | 1 |
| Retired: | 2 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Displacement: | 4,580 tonnes 6,100 tonnes fully loaded |
| Length: | 152.75 m |
| Beam: | 15.80 m |
| Draught: | 6.60 m |
| Propulsion: | 2 Rateau steam turbines, double reduction |
| Speed: | 32 knots (59 km/h) |
| Range: | 1900 nautical miles (3500 km) at 30 knots (56 km/h) |
| Complement: | 24 officers |
| Sensors and processing systems: | 1 DRBV 51B surface sentry radar |
| Electronic warfare and decoys: | 1 ARBB 32 jammer |
| Armament: | Anti-ship;
Anti-submarine;
Guns;
CIWS;
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| Aircraft carried: |
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