French frigate Cassard

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Cassard.

Cassard was an anti-aircraft destroyer of the French Marine Nationale, lead ship of the Cassard class. She was the 10th vessel of the French Navy named after the 18th century captain Jacques Cassard.

History
France
Name	Cassard
Namesake	Jacques Cassard
Builder	DCNS S.A.
Laid down	3 September 1982
Launched	6 February 1985
Commissioned	29 July 1988
Decommissioned	15 March 2019
Identification	Pennant number: D 614 MMSI number: 228718000
Status	Decommissioned
General characteristics
Class & type	Cassard-class frigate
Displacement	4500 t
Length	139 m (456 ft)
Beam	14 m (46 ft)
Draught	6 m (20 ft)
Propulsion	4 Pielstick PA6 BTC diesel engines 2 fixed pace propellers 4 diesel-alternators (3400 kW) for electrical plant
Speed	25 knots (46 km/h)
Range	8,000 nautical miles (15,000 km) at 17 knots (31 km/h)
Troops	room for special forces
Complement	22 officers 142 non-commissioned officers 80 enlisted personnel
Sensors & processing systems	DRBV26C sentry radar 1 DRBJ11B tri-dimensional air sentry radar 1 DIBV2A infra-red alert system 2 DRBN34 navigation and landing radar 1 DUBV 24C hull sonar
Electronic warfare & decoys	1 ARBR 17 radar detector 1 SAIGON radio emission detector 1 ARBB 33 jammer 2 SAGAIE NG decoy launchers 2 DAGAIE decoy launchers 1 Syracuse II system
Armament	Anti-air; 1 × Mk 13 launcher (40 × Standard SM-1MR anti-air missiles) Anti-ship; 8 × MM40 Exocet anti-ship missiles Anti-submarine; 2 × fixed torpedo tubes (10 × L5 mod 4 torpedoes) Guns; 1 × Creusot- Loire Compact 100mm/55 Mod 68 DP gun 2 × 20mm F2 anti-aircraft guns 4 × 12.7mm machine guns CIWS; 2 × Sadral sextuple launcher (39 × Mistral CIWS anti-air missiles)
Aircraft carried	1 × Panther anti-submarine helicopter

Tartar SM1 missile on Cassard.

Service history

Cassard was fitted with a number of prototype equipments which were later incorporated into the La Fayette-class frigates.

In April 2016, Cassard was named as one of the ships participating in Operation Griffin Strike, a test of the Combined Joint Expeditionary Force between the French and British armed forces.^[1]