For other ships with the same name, see French ship Chevalier Paul.
Chevalier Paul underway in the Mediterranean Sea on 15 July 2017
History
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Name
Chevalier Paul
Namesake
Chevalier Paul
Ordered
27 October 2000
Builder
DCNS and Thales Group. Lorient shipyard
Laid down
13 January 2005
Launched
12 July 2006
Commissioned
June 2009
Homeport
Toulon
Identification
Pennant number: D 621
MMSI number: 228722000
Status
Active
General characteristics
Class and type
Horizon-class frigate
Displacement
7,050 tonnes[1]
Length
152.87 m (501 ft 7 in)
Beam
20.3 m (66 ft 7 in)
Draught
5.4 m (17 ft 9 in)
Propulsion
2 × 31280 HP GE/Avio LM2500 gas turbines
2 × 5875 HP SEMT Pielstick 12 PA6 STC diesels
1 × beam propeller
2 × 4-blade propellers
Speed
29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph) (18 on diesel)
Range
7,000 nmi (13,000 km; 8,100 mi) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)s, 3500 nmi at 25 knots
Boats & landing craft carried
EDO, 20-seat EFRC, Hurricane 733
Capacity
32 passengers or admiral staff
Complement
26 officers
110 petty officers
38 sailors
Sensors and processing systems
S-1850 LRR tri-dimensional sentry radar with IFF
ABF TUS 4110 CL hull sonar
Tugged linear antenna with Alto torpedo detector
Electronic warfare & decoys
Radar jammer
Communication jammer
NGDS system (2 decoy launchers, REM, RIR, LAD)
Contralto system (2 acoustic decoy launchers).
Armament
Anti-air;
1 × PAAMS (48 × Aster 15 or 30 anti-air missiles in SYLVER A50 VLS.)
For but not with: [1 × Sadral launcher with 6 Mistral missiles] [2] space on starboard roof of hangar
Anti-ship;
8 × Exocet MM40 Block 3 anti-ship missiles (Block 3c variant entering service with the French Navy from December 2022)[3]
Anti-submarine;
2 × MU90 torpedo tubes
Guns;
2 × Otobreda 76 mm super rapid guns
3 × Narwhal 20 mm remote-controlled naval gun
Aircraft carried
1 × NH90 helicopter
Chevalier Paul is a Horizon-class frigate of the French Marine Nationale commissioned in June 2009, the third vessel of the French Navy named after the 17th century admiral Chevalier Paul. The main mission of this type of ship is the escort and protection of a carrier strike group formed around an aircraft carrier, usually Charles de Gaulle or one of the aircraft carriers of the US Navy,[4] or an amphibious operation carried out by amphibious helicopter carriers. The ship's specialty is air traffic control in a war zone, but it can be employed in a wide variety of missions, such as intelligence-gathering, special forces operations, or in protecting less well-armed vessels. Horizon-class frigates such as Chevalier Paul are the most powerful surface combatants that France has ever built. In service since the end of 2011, it bears the pennant number D621. Its namesake is Jean-Paul de Saumeur, better known as Chevalier Paul, a French naval officer born in Marseille in 1598.
Nantes is the godmother city of Chevalier Paul since 17 March 2012.[5]
^"Project Horizon". GlobalSecurity.org. 11 July 2011. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
^"Présentation Frégate Horizon Chevalier Paul" (in French). Alabordache.fr. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
^"First Exocet MM40 Block 3c Missiles set for December Delivery". 17 October 2022.
^"La frégate de défense aérienne Chevalier Paul escorte le groupe aéronaval de l'USS Nimitz". www.defense.gouv.fr. 23 October 2013. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
^Source: Association of Military Cities of the Armed Forces
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