ARA Bouchard (P-51)
Offshore patrol ship Adroit, future Bouchard | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Builders | DCNS (now Kership) |
| Operators | |
| Built | May 2010 – June 2011 |
| In commission | 2012 – present |
| Planned | 4 |
| Building | 1 |
| Completed | 3 |
| Active | 3 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Gowind-class corvette |
| Displacement | 1,450 t (1,430 long tons) (full load) |
| Length | 87 m (285 ft 5 in) |
| Beam | 11 m (36 ft 1 in) |
| Draft | 3.3 m (10 ft 10 in) |
| Installed power | Electrical: |
| Propulsion | 2 Anglo Belgian Corporation V12 diesel engines, 5.6 MW (7,500 hp) |
| Speed | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
| Range | 8,000 nmi (14,800 km; 9,200 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Endurance | 30 days |
| Boats & landing craft carried | 2 × 9 m (30 ft) RHIBs |
| Complement | 30 core crew, up to 29 troops |
| Sensors & processing systems | |
| Electronic warfare & decoys | |
| Armament |
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| Aircraft carried |
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| Aviation facilities | Helicopter pad and hangar |
ARA Bouchard (formerly L'Adroit) is a patrol vessel designed by the French company DCNS for maritime protection missions. She was originally part of the Gowind family of corvettes and patrol vessels but the less military members of the family like Bouchard have been moved into the Kership consortium. The design was self-funded by DCNS without an initial customer, and was initially leased to the French Navy as L'Adroit before being sold to the Argentine Navy in November 2018. The vessel was commissioned as ARA Bouchard in December 2019.