French patrol vessel L'Adroit
 French Offshore Patrol Ship P725 L'Adroit | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Builders: | DCNS |
| Operators: |
 Marine Nationale |
| Preceded by: | P400 class |
| Built: | May 2010 – June 2011 |
| In commission: | 2012 – |
| Building: | 1 |
| Planned: | 1 |
| Completed: | 1 |
| Active: | 1 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Gowind-class corvette |
| Displacement: | 1,450 t (1,450 t) (full load) |
| Length: | 87 m (285 ft) |
| Beam: | 11 m (36 ft) |
| Draft: | 3.3 m (11 ft) |
| Installed power: | Electrical: |
| Propulsion: | 2 Anglo Belgian Corporation V12 diesel engines, 5.6 MW |
| Speed: | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
| Range: | 8,000 nmi (14,800 km; 9,200 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Endurance: | 30 days |
| Boats & landing craft carried: | 2 × 9 m (30 ft) RHIBs |
| Complement: | 30 core crew, up to 29 troops |
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| Electronic warfare & decoys: | |
| Armament: |
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| Aviation facilities: | helicopter pad and hangar |
L'Adroit is a Gowind-class patrol vessel specially designed by DCNS for maritime protection missions. It has a wide range of capabilities deployed through prevention and action assets optimized for maritime surveillance and policing duties, including fast commando boats, assault or transport helicopter, unmanned surveillance vehicles, electronic warfare intercept systems, shell doors, secure high-bitrate communication facilities and command aids.
Placed at the disposal of the French Navy by DCNS for a period of three years, L’Adroit sailed from its home base on France’s Mediterranean coast in May 2012 to conduct its first fishery policing and maritime security mission, including deployment for operation Thon Rouge, monitoring fishing vessels with red tuna quotas for 2012.
Design
The 360° panoramic bridge and the integrated mast give L’Adroit’s crew reliable information acquisition resources. The minimal superstructure of the ship leaves a substantial space available for air operations (helicopters, UAVs) and for launch and recovery of surface assets (RHIBs or USVs). L’Adroit’s missions are managed by the POLARIS® combat system, which supplies essential detailed information on the ship’s environment, acquired by various detectors, deployed sensors and other ships integrated into the surveillance network. The mission system can also include MATRICS®, a maritime surveillance system capable of detecting suspicious course profiles automatically.
Missions
L'Adroit is a modern instrument for dealing with threats and illegal practices at sea. The vessel is capable of a variety of missions usually associated with offshore patrol of economic zones.
References
- ↑ Blama, Andrea. "CAMCOPTER S-100 Integration into DCNS New Class of Offshore Patrol Vessel" (PDF). Schiebel. Retrieved June 20, 2011.
