Chapter 2: New Orders, New and Old Friends

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6 x A-7E Corsair II

9 x Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard

4 x E-2C Hawkeyes

4 x S-2 Trackers

(Listed aircraft above to be replaced with Dassault Rafale M.)

5 x UH-1Ys

4 x SH-3 Sea Kings

(SH-3s scheduled to be replaced with NH90 NFH Caïmans or with Lynx Mk 4s.)

3 x MH-60R


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Heavy Cruiser

FS Menton ex-USS Bellingham, Des Moines-class (modernized)

General Characteristics:

Length: 210m wl (waterline), 218.39m oa (overall).

Beam: 23.32m.

Draft: 6.7m.

Displacement: 17,255 long tons, 17,532 standard tons.

Machinery: 4 shaft, 4 boilers, General Electric turbines, 120,000 shp.

Speed: 33 knots.

Range: 10,500 nautical miles at 15 knots.

Armour: 102 - 152mm belt, 89mm deck, 51 - 203mm turrets, 160mm barbettes, 165mm conning tower.

Electronics and Decoy:

AN/SLQ-32(V)7 Electronic Warfare Suite.

OE-82 SATCOM.

AN/SPQ-9B Surface Search & Fire-Control Radar.

New Threat Upgrade: AN/SPS-49(V)9 2D Air Search Radar, AN/SPS-67(V)5 Surface Search Radar, AN/SPS-48G 3D Air Search Radar, AN/SYS-2(V)1 Integrated Automatic Detection and Tracking System (IADTS), (A)CDS - (Advanced) Combat Direction System, WDS Mk 14 - Weapons Direction System, AN/SYR-1 Communications Tracking Set, RESS - Radar Environmental Simulator System.

Armament:

2 x 3 8"/55 cal guns

2 x 2 5"/38 cal guns

3 x Phalanx Mod 0 CIWS

2 x 4 Harpoon launchers

1 x 1 RIM-7 Sea Sparrow launcher

Aircraft:

Original

1 x SH-3 Sea King

Replaced

1 x Eurocopter AS565 MB Panther, NHIndustries NH90 NFH Caïman or Westland Lynx Mk 4.


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