Ouragan class landing platform dock

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Career

Builder:	Brest arsenal (DCN)
Ordered:	(Ouragan / Orage)
Laid down:	June 20, 1962 / June 1966
Launched:	November 10, 1963 / April 22, 1967
Commissioned:	June 1, 1965 / April 1, 1969
Decommissioned:	2006 / -
Fate:
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	5965 tons empty, 8500 tons loaded
Length:	149 metres
Beam:	21.50 metres
Draft:	5.4 metres
Propulsion:	Power plant: L9021: 2 SEMT-Pielstick 12 PC 2 V diesels, total 8600 horsepower (6 325 kW) L9022: 2 SEMT-Pielstick 12 PC 2.1 V400 diesels, total 9400 horsepower (6 910 kW) 1920 kW electrical power 2 variable-thread propellers
Speed:	17 knots
Range:	9000 nautical miles, at 15 knot speed, 15000 at 12 knots
Complement:	12 officers, 78 warrant officers 115 enlisted crew
Armament:	2 Simbad missile systems 4 12.7 machine guns L9021: 2 Bofors 40-AA cannons L9022: 2 30-AA Breda-Mauser cannons
Electronics:	2 Racal-Decca radars
Planes
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The Ouragan is a class of French landing platform docks operated by the French Navy.

The ships in that class are used for:

the fast loading and unloading of landing craft, and other equipment, carrying troops and vehicles;
carrying, supplying and operating helicopters transporting commandos or providing close support;
transporting the mission crew;
commanding a landing operation of limited scale.

The class comprises:

Ouragan (Hurricane), L9021
Orage (Storm), L9022

The two ships of this class were suppousedly due for transfer to the Argentine Navy in 2006 and 2007 but concerns about asbestos (a toxic material) used on the ships contruction had delay the decision.

Ouragan

Image:FS Ouragan 1.jpg|Command bridge of the Ouragan Image:FS Ouragan 2.jpg|The landing craft Ouragan and Orage docked in Toulon Image:Ouragan HMS-Intrepid DN-SC-90-08863rc.jpg|Ouragan and HMS Intrepid Image:Ouragan HMS-Intrepid DN-SC-90-08862c.jpg|Ouragan and HMS Intrepid

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