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").

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Dupuy de Lôme.
Dupuy de Lôme underway
History
Name: Dupuy de Lôme
Namesake: Henri Dupuy de Lôme
Launched: 27 March 2004
Commissioned: April 2006
Identification:
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:
  • ARBR-21 radar detector
  • goniometer for satellite communication interception
  • goniometer for Elite communication interception
  • goniometer for Egide Naval communication interception
Armament: 2 × 12.7 mm M2 Browing machine guns

Design and description
Overview of the main systems

Dupuy de Lôme was designed and built by Royal Niestern Sander shipyards in Delfzijl, The Netherlands with yard number 816. The Thales Naval France designed the electromagnetic intellegence part of the vessel. She provides a 350-day-operational availability a year, out of which 240 can be spent at sea. The ship is operated by two naval crews, each composed of thirty-three sailors and another thirty-three technicians, and an optional complement of up to thirty-eight specialists, depending on the mission. The specialised personnel operates under the Direction du renseignement militaire.

Construction and career

On 21 June 2015, Dupuy de Lôme entered the Black Sea along with USS Laboon as part of NATO's presence missions following the Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation.[1]

References
  1. LaGrone, Sam (22 June 2015). "Destroyer USS Laboon, French Surveillance Ship Enter Black Sea". USNI News. Retrieved 27 October 2015.

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