F70 frigate profil poster (as chosen)

The Georges Leygues Class of the French Navy, also known as type F70 ASM, is made up of seven frigates with anti-submarine warfare capability.

The first units entered service in 1979 and the last in 1990; the first unit was decommissioned in 2013.

The ships are named respectively Georges Leygues, Dupleix, Montcalm, Jean de Vienne, Primauguet, La Motte Picquet and Latouche-Tréville.

The Georges Leygues class frigates herald major changes after the advisory-ecortors, thanks to the possibilities of the ASM Lynx helicopter.

This class forms the intermediate component of an ASW combat system alongside the 2 Tourville class frigates and the 9 Jean Moulin class avisos.

139 meters long and weighing just over 4,800 tonnes, the F70s carry 1 100mm cannon, 2 30mm cannons, 4 MM40 missiles, 18 Crotales missiles, 4 Mistral surface/air missiles, and the possibility of dropping torpedoes.

The power of their Gas Turbine propulsion allows them to reach peaks of 30 knots.

They were replaced from the 2010s by units of the Aquitaine Class (FREMM).