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La Combattante 1974

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
La Combattante	P730		CMN, Cherbourg	12.1961	20.6.1963	3.1964	stricken 9.1996

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	180
Displacement full, t	202
Length, m	45.0
Breadth, m	7.40
Draught, m	2.50
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 SEMT-Pielstic diesels
Power, h. p.	3200
Max speed, kts	23
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	2000(12)
Armament	1 x 4 SS.11 SSM (4 SS.11), 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 2 x 1 - 12.7/90
Electronic equipment	radar, 1 x 14 flare launcher
Complement	25

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Project history

Authorised in 1960, La Combattante was to have been the prototype of a new class of patrouilleurs garde-côtes. Construction was of laminated wood and plastics, giving a low magnetic signature. She conducted trials of the Exocet missile and served as the basis for a whole series of FPBs built for export.

Modernizations

1975: - 1x14 flare launcher; + 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, accommodation for 80 troops for a short passage.

1979: diesels were replaced by SEMT-Pielstick 8PA4-V200 VGDS diesels (3840hp, 28kts)

Naval service

No significant events.