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French helicopter carrier Le Résolue

La Résolue.

Career (France)
Namesake: The Resolute
Laid down: 1959
Launched: 1961
Commissioned: 1964
Homeport: Brest
Nickname: "La Résolue"
Status: Active
General characteristics
Class and type: Jeanne d'Arc class helicopter carrier
Displacement: 10,575 tons (standard)

12,365 tons (loaded)

Length: 182 m
Beam: 24 m
Draught: 7.5 m
Propulsion: Four 10,000 horsepower (7.5 MW) power plants with automatic heating, 29 420 kW
Speed: 28 knots (52 km/h)
Range:

3 000 nm at 26,5. 3 750 nm at 25 6,800 nmi at 16 knots 7,500 nautical miles (14,000 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h)

Complement: 627 (total), 31 officers, 182 petty officers, 414 quaster-masters and sailors, 150 cadet officers
Sensors and

processing systems:

  • 1 DRBV 22 D
  • 1 DRBV51A
  • 2 DRBN34
  • 1 DRBC32A
  • 1 Sonar DUBV24
  • 1 Inmarsat
Electronic warfare

& decoys:

Nixie
Armament:
  • 6 Exocet-38 sea-sea missiles
  • two 100 mm gun turrets (4 originally, two removed in 2000)
  • 4 12.7mm machine guns
Aircraft carried: Aérospatiale Super Frelon (8 in war)

The La Résolue ("The Resolute", in French) is a helicopter carrier/amphibious assault ship of the French Navy, the second ship of the Jeanne d'Arc class helicopter carrier. She is the sister ship of the French helicopter carrier Jeanne d'Arc (R97), built at the same time 1959-64.

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