L-9022 Orage

Country:  France

Class, [Type]: Ouragan, [LSD].

Builder: DCN, Brest, France.

Launch date: 22 April 1967.

Commission date: 01 April 1968.

Decommission date: 2007.

Displacement ( tons ): 5.965 standard, 8.500 full load, 15.000 flooded.

Dimensions ( metres ): 149 x 21,5 x 5,4

Main machinery: 2 X SEMT-Pielstick 12 PC2.1 V400 diesels ( 9.400 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 17,3.

Range ( miles ): 9.000 at 15 knots.

Complement: 205 ( 12 officers ) + 470 troops.

Guns: 2 x OTO Breda-Mauser 30mm, 4 x 12,7mm.

Missiles:  SAM: 2 x Simbad system ( 4 x Mistral missiles ).

Military lift: 2 x EDIC LCM or 8 x LCM(8), light tanks, trucks and vehicles. If used as cargo ferry can embark 1500tm of material.

Radar: Navigation: 2 x DRBN-34A; Fire Control: 2 x DIBC-2A.

Helicopter: Can operate heavy helicopters.

Callsign: FCOR ()

Comment: Have Syracuse II SATCOM.

Homeport: Toulon.

Similar units:

 L9021 Ouragan