L'Adroit

L'Adroit (formerly Hermes) is a Gowind class patrol ship built with DCNSfinancing and to be handed over to the French Navy.

L'Adroit was proposed by DCNS as a contender for French Navy plans to build a fleet of small, multipurpose warships to operate in the littoral zone.

DESIGN

The ship is a semi-planing steel monohull. It is 285.43 feet (87 m) in length, displaces 1,450 metric tons. The design incorporates a flight deck with integrated helicopter or UAS ^[1] launch, recovery and handling system and the capability to launch and recover boats (manned and unmanned) from the stern.

General characteristics
Class and type:	Gowind class
Displacement:	1,450 t (1,450 t) (full load)
Length:	285.43 ft (87.00 m)
Beam:	36.1 ft (11.0 m)
Draft:	10.82 ft (3.30 m)
Installed power:	Electrical:
Propulsion:	2 Anglo Belgian Corporation V12diesel 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 and landing craft carried:	2x 9 m (30 ft) RHIBs
Complement:	30 core crew, up to 29 troops
Sensors and processing systems:	DCNS Polaris combat management system Terma Scanter 2001 I-Band surface search radar Sagem EOMS (Electro Optical Multisensor System) NG Sagem SIGMA 40D Inertial measurement unit LinkSrechts Helicopter visual landing aid system
Electronic warfare and decoys:	Thales Altesse & Vigile LWESM/COMINT system Lacroix Defense & Security Sylena decoy system
Armament:	1x 20 mm artillery 2x .50-cal machine guns
Aircraft carried:	1 x 5-tons helicopter or 1 x 10-tons helicopter (supported) Schiebel Camcopter S-100 [1]
Aviation facilities:	helicopter pad and hangar

  

    

   

Read more at:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_patrol_vessel_L'Adroit