Career (France) | |
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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: |
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Electronic warfare
& decoys: |
Nixie |
Armament: |
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Aircraft carried: | 4 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.