| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Monge |
| Namesake: | Gaspard Monge |
| Builder: | Chantiers de l'Atlantique, Saint-Nazaire |
| Laid down: | 26 March 1990 |
| Launched: | 6 October 1990 |
| In service: | 4 November 1992 |
| Status: | Active |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 21 000 tonnes |
| Length: | 225.6 metres |
| Beam: | 24.84 metres |
| Draught: | 7.60 metres |
| Propulsion: |
2 SEMT Pielstick 8PC 2.5 L400 diesels |
| Speed: | 16 knots |
| Range: | 15 000 nautical miles at 15 knots (60 days) |
| Complement: |
21 officers |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
4 trajectography radars in C band (2 Armor, 1 Gascogne and 1 Normandie). Telemeasurement station with 6 air antennas, including 2 Antarès 7 various telemetry and optronic tracking antennas One LIDAR One Tavitac 2000 combat direction system 2 DRBN-34 (Racal Decca) navigation and landing radars 1 DRBV 15C radar combined de veille combiné ; Navstar SENIN Satellite communication systems (Syracuse II, Inmarsat). |
| Armament: | 2 x 12.7 mm machine guns |
| Aircraft carried: |
650 m² plateforme and 180 m² hangar, can operate heavy helicopters. |
The Monge (A601), named after the 18th century mathematician Gaspard Monge, is specialised unit of the French Navy dedicated to tracking and measuring rocket trajectories, it's a Missile Range Instrumentation Ship. She was built for the trials of the Submarine-launched ballistic missiles of the Navy, and is also used to monitor the launch of Ariane rockets.