Built as a multi-purpose frigate by DCNS at Lorient, France for the French Navy.
08 October 2009 keel laid down.
10 October2012 launched as the NORMANDIE (D-651)
Displacement 6,000 ton, dim. 142 x 19 x 7.30m. (draught)
Powered by GODAG by one General-Electric Avio LM2500+G4 turbines of 32 MW. Shafts ?, speed 27 knots.
Armament:1 – 76mm OTO Melara compact SR. 2 – 20mm guns, 8 missiles MBDA Exocet 16 MBDA ster missiles. 4 – torpedo launches torpedo tubes with 19 MU90 torpedoes.
1 NH90 helicopter.
Crew 108.
October 2013 she made her first sea trials.
23 June 2015 handed over to the Egyptian Navy.
24 June 2015 the first time the Egyptian flag was raised on board, and most probably renamed in TAHYA MISR (1001) the same time.
The TAHYA MISR is the third anti-submarine frigate of the FREMM program built at the DCNS yard in Lorient , and was to be admitted to the French Navy and take the name of NORMANDIE. It is sold in February 2015 to the Egyptian navy before its delivery to the French Navy. She has never sailed under the French flag. The frigate is renamed TAHYA MISR.
Construction
Its construction begins on 8 October 2009 . It is being launched on 18 October 2012. The trials at sea begin in October 2013. The frigate was handed over to the Egyptian navy on 23 June 2015. She sailed for the first time under the Egyptian flag on 24 June 2015. She participated in the naval review during the inauguration of the new Suez Canal on 6 August 2015.
Features
The frigate TAHYA MISR is equipped with two inertial navigation units SIGMA 40 created by Sagem . Thanks to their Gyrolaser technology (Ring Laser Gyro), these inertial units offer a very high degree of precision and multiply the efficiency of sensors, armaments and self-defense means of the vessel.
Djibouti 2016 960FD sgMS?, scott? (She is the frigate in the background given as the NORMANDIE (651).
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahya_Misr_(fr%C3%A9gate)