French frigate La Motte-Picquet

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History
France
Name	La Motte-Picquet
Namesake	Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte
Builder	Brest arsenal
Laid down	12 February 1982
Launched	6 February 1985
Commissioned	18 February 1988
Decommissioned	13 October 2020[1]
Status	Retired
General characteristics
Class and type	Georges Leygues-class frigate
Displacement	3,550 t (3,494 long tons) 4,500 t (4,429 long tons) full load
Length	139 m (456 ft 0 in)
Beam	14 m (45 ft 11 in)
Height	39.36 m (129 ft 2 in)
Draught	5.8 m (19 ft 0 in)
Propulsion	CODOG 2 × Pielstick PA 6 V280 STD diesels, 5,200 hp (3,878 kW) 2 × Rolls-Royce Olympus TM3B gas turbines, 26,000 hp (19,388 kW) 2 shafts with 4-blade controllable pitch propellers
Speed	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) on gas turbines 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) on diesels
Range	1,000 nmi (1,900 km; 1,200 mi) at 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph) on gas turbines 10,000 nmi (19,000 km; 12,000 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) on diesels
Complement	20 officers 120 non-commissioned officers 95 men
Sensors and processing systems	Detection: 1 Air/surface sentry radar DRBV51C 1 Air sentry radar DRBV 26 1 Fire control radar DRBC 32E 2 Navigation radar KH 1007 1 Hull sonar DUBV 23 1 Towed sonar DUBV 43C Tactical information: SENIT 4 SEAO/OPSMER
Electronic warfare & decoys	2 Radar interceptors ARBR 16 2 × Syllex chaff launchers
Armament	Anti-air: 1 × Crotale EDIR system - 8 missiles on launcher + 18 stored 2 × Simbad systems - 2 × 2 Mistral missiles 1 × CADAM 100 mm main gun 2 × 20 mm guns 4 × 12.7 mm machine guns Anti-surface: 4 × Exocet MM38 missiles (subsequently converted to MM40 Block 2 SSM)[2] Anti-submarine: 10 × L5 Mod4 torpedoes 2 × L5 torpedo launchers
Aircraft carried	2 × Lynx WG13 Mk.4 helicopters, each with: 1 × DUAV4 sonar Rheseda system for transmission of acoustic data 12 × Mark 46 torpedoes

La Motte-Picquet was a F70 type anti-submarine frigate of the French Navy. She was the fourth French vessel named after the 18th Century admiral count Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte. As of January 2012^[update] she was serving in the Persian Gulf. The ship was decommissioned in October 2020.^[3]