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Auvergne at Fremantle on 18 November 2017.
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USS Nimitz and the frigates Jean Bart and Auvergne on 19 September 2017.
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NHIndustries NH90 helicopter of the French Naval Aviation landing on Auvergne.
Auvergne in the
Persian Gulf on 19 September 2017
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History | |
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Name | Auvergne |
Namesake | Auvergne |
Builder | DCNS, Lorient |
Laid down | August 2012 |
Launched | 2 September 2015 |
Completed | 11 April 2017 |
Commissioned | 14 February 2018 |
Homeport | Brest [1] [2] |
Identification |
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Status | Active |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Aquitaine-class frigate |
Displacement | 6,000 tons |
Length | 466 ft (142.0 m) |
Beam | 65 ft (19.8 m) |
Draught | 16 ft (4.9 m) |
Propulsion | |
Speed | 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph); max cruise speed 15.6 knots (28.9 km/h; 18.0 mph) |
Range | 6,000 nmi (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 145 |
Sensors and processing systems |
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Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 1 × NH90 helicopter |
Aviation facilities | Single hangar |
Auvergne (D654) is an Aquitaine-class frigate of the French Navy. The Aquitaine class were developed from the FREMM multipurpose frigate program.
Original plans were for 17 FREMM to replace the nine D'Estienne d'Orves-class avisos and nine anti-submarine frigates of the Tourville and Georges Leygues classes. In November 2005 France announced a contract of €3.5 billion for development and the first eight hulls, with options for nine more costing €2.95 billion split over two tranches (totaling 17).
Following the cancellation of the third and fourth of the Horizon-class frigates in 2005 on budget grounds, requirements for an air-defence derivative of the FREMM called FREDA were placed – with DCNS coming up with several proposals. [5] Expectations were that the last two ships of the 17 FREMM planned would be built to FREDA specifications; however, by 2008 the plan was revised down to just 11 FREMM (9 ASW variants and 2 FREDA variants) at a cost of €8.75 billion (FY13, ~US$12 billion). [6] The 11 ships would cost €670 million (~US$760m) each in FY2014, or €860m (~US$980m) including development costs. [6] In 2015, the total number of ASW variants was further reduced to just six units, including Auvergne.
Auvergne was developed as part of a joint Italian-French program known as FREMM, which was implemented to develop a new class of frigates for use by various European navies. Constructed from 2012. The frigate Auvergne was launched on 2 September 2015 and commissioned in 2018.
In late 2021/early 2022, just prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the frigate deployed to the Black Sea for exercises with the Bulgarian and other NATO navies. [7] The frigate departed the Black Sea prior to the outbreak of hostilities.
She was initially home ported at Toulon, but transferred to the naval base at Brest in December 2022. [8] [9] [10]
Auvergne in the
Persian Gulf on 19 September 2017
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History | |
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![]() | |
Name | Auvergne |
Namesake | Auvergne |
Builder | DCNS, Lorient |
Laid down | August 2012 |
Launched | 2 September 2015 |
Completed | 11 April 2017 |
Commissioned | 14 February 2018 |
Homeport | Brest [1] [2] |
Identification |
|
Status | Active |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Aquitaine-class frigate |
Displacement | 6,000 tons |
Length | 466 ft (142.0 m) |
Beam | 65 ft (19.8 m) |
Draught | 16 ft (4.9 m) |
Propulsion | |
Speed | 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph); max cruise speed 15.6 knots (28.9 km/h; 18.0 mph) |
Range | 6,000 nmi (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 145 |
Sensors and processing systems |
|
Armament |
|
Aircraft carried | 1 × NH90 helicopter |
Aviation facilities | Single hangar |
Auvergne (D654) is an Aquitaine-class frigate of the French Navy. The Aquitaine class were developed from the FREMM multipurpose frigate program.
Original plans were for 17 FREMM to replace the nine D'Estienne d'Orves-class avisos and nine anti-submarine frigates of the Tourville and Georges Leygues classes. In November 2005 France announced a contract of €3.5 billion for development and the first eight hulls, with options for nine more costing €2.95 billion split over two tranches (totaling 17).
Following the cancellation of the third and fourth of the Horizon-class frigates in 2005 on budget grounds, requirements for an air-defence derivative of the FREMM called FREDA were placed – with DCNS coming up with several proposals. [5] Expectations were that the last two ships of the 17 FREMM planned would be built to FREDA specifications; however, by 2008 the plan was revised down to just 11 FREMM (9 ASW variants and 2 FREDA variants) at a cost of €8.75 billion (FY13, ~US$12 billion). [6] The 11 ships would cost €670 million (~US$760m) each in FY2014, or €860m (~US$980m) including development costs. [6] In 2015, the total number of ASW variants was further reduced to just six units, including Auvergne.
Auvergne was developed as part of a joint Italian-French program known as FREMM, which was implemented to develop a new class of frigates for use by various European navies. Constructed from 2012. The frigate Auvergne was launched on 2 September 2015 and commissioned in 2018.
In late 2021/early 2022, just prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the frigate deployed to the Black Sea for exercises with the Bulgarian and other NATO navies. [7] The frigate departed the Black Sea prior to the outbreak of hostilities.
She was initially home ported at Toulon, but transferred to the naval base at Brest in December 2022. [8] [9] [10]