Cassard (D 614)

History
France
Name:	Cassard
Namesake:	Jacques Cassard
Builder:	DCNS S.A.
Laid down:	3 September 1982
Launched:	6 February 1985
Commissioned:	29 July 1988
Identification:	D 614
Status:	in active service
General characteristics
Class and 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 and 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

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

Cassard was fitted with a number of prototype equipment 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.

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