French frigate Aquitaine

Aquitaine is a frigate in service with the French Navy. She is the lead ship of her class of French frigates, which in turn were developed by the FREMM multipurpose frigate program.[1]

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Aquitaine.
Aquitaine moored in Bordeaux in 2013
History
France
Name: Aquitaine
Builder: DCNS, Lorient
Laid down: 2007
Launched: 29 April 2010
Completed: 2012
Commissioned: 23 November 2012
Identification: Pennant number D650
Status: Active
General characteristics
Class and type: Aquitaine-class frigate
Displacement: 6,000 tons
Length: 466 ft (142.0 m)
Beam: 65 ft (19.8 m)
Draught: 16 ft (4.9 m)
Armament:

Service

Aquitaine was developed as part of a joint Italian-French program known as FREMM, which was implemented to develop a new class of frigates for use by various European navies. Construction on the ship began in 2007 and was completed in 2012.[1][2]

In April 2018 Aquitaine participated in the 2018 bombing of Damascus and Homs.[3][4]

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gollark: You should probably first ask them to just not try and attack people because of that sort of thing.
gollark: Oh dear.
gollark: Go on, then.
gollark: Regulatory capture-type things are bad, we know that already.

References
  1. "La Marine réceptionne la FREMM Aquitaine". www.defense.gouv.fr. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
  2. ARG. "Aquitaine Class Frigate | Military-Today.com". www.military-today.com. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
  3. Youssef, Nancy A.; Bender, Michael C. (2018-04-14). "U.S., U.K. and France Launch Strikes Against Syria". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
  4. Lendon, Brad. "Weapons the US, UK and France used to target Syria". CNN. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
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