Chapter 2: New Orders, New and Old Friends

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Guided-missile cruiser

FS Rochelle, ex-USS Tacoma, Ticonderoga-class

General Characteristics:

Length: 567 ft (173m).

Beam: 55 ft (16.8 m).

Draft: 34 ft (10.2 m).

Displacement: 9600 long tons, approx. about 9,600 long tons (9,800 t), 9800 t full load.

Machinery: 4 x General Electric LM2500 gas turbine engines. 2 x controllable-reversible pitch propellers.

Speed: 32.5 knots

Range: 6000 nmi nautical miles at 20 knots and 3300 nautical miles at 30 knots.

Armour: Kevlar splinter protection in critical areas.

Electronics & Decoy:

AN/SPY-1B(V).

AN/SPS-49(V)8 Air Search Radar.

AN/SPG-62 Fire Control Radar.

AN/SPS-73(V)12 Surface Search Radar.

AN/SPQ-9B Gun Fire Control Radar.

AN/SQQ-89(V)1/3 A(V)15 Sonar suit: AN/SQS-53D Active Sonar, AN/SQR-19 TACTAS, AN/SQR-19B ITASS & MFTA Passive Sonar

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

Mark 36 SRBOC.

AN/SLQ-25 Nixe.

Armament:

2 x 5 in (127 mm)/62 calibre Mark 45 Mod 4 Lightweight Gun

2 x 61 cell Mk 41 Vertical Launch System

8 x RGM-84 Harpoon missiles.

2 x Mk 32 triple torpedo tubes.

2 Phalanx CIWS Block 1B

2 x Mk 38 25 mm Machine Gun Systems.

2 x .M2 Machine guns.

Aircraft:

2 x MH-60R Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters.


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Frigate

FS Lille, ex-HMS Aberdeen, (Modified) Type 23-class

General Characteristics:

Length: 133.0 m (436 ft 4 in).

Beam: 16.1 m (52 ft 10 in).

Draft: 7.3 m (23 ft 11 in).

Displacement: 4,900 t (4,800 long tons).

Machinery: 4 × 1,510 kW (2,025 hp) Paxman Valenta 12CM diesel generators (Non-PGMU ships) 4 × 1,650 kW (2,210 shp) MTU 12V4000 M53 diesel generators (PGMU ships) 2 × GEC electric motors delivering 2,980 kW (3,996 hp) each 2 × Rolls-Royce Marine Spey SM1C delivering 19,500 kW (26,150 hp).

Speed: In excess of 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph).

Range: 7,500 nmi (14,000 km; 9,000 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph).

Electronics & Decoy:

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