French aviso Commandant Ducuing
"Commandant Ducuing" (F795) is a in the French Navy. Design. Armed by a crew of 90 sailors, these vessels have the reputation of being among the most difficult in bad weather. Their high windage makes them particularly sensitive to pitch and roll as soon as the sea is formed. Their armament, consequent for a vessel of this tonnage, allows them to manage a large spectrum of missions. During the Cold War, they were primarily used to patrol the continental shelf of the Atlantic Ocean in search of Soviet Navy submarines. Due to the poor performance of  the hull sonar, as soon as an echo appeared, the reinforcement of an ASM frigate was necessary to chase it using its towed variable depth sonar. Their role as patrollers now consists mainly of patrols and assistance missions, as well as participation in UN missions (blockades, flag checks) or similar marine policing tasks (fight against drugs, extraction of nationals, fisheries control, etc.). The mer-mer 38 or mer-mer 40 missiles have been landed, but they carry several machine guns and machine guns, more suited to their new missions. Its construction cost was estimated at 270,000,000 French francs. Construction and  career. "Commandant Ducuing" was laid down on 1 October 1980 at Arsenal de Lorient, Lorient. Launched on 26 September 1981 and commissioned on 17 March 1983. She took part in Operation Artimon in 1990, in Operation Tanit in April 2009, in order to free a French yacht hijacked by Somali pirates. The ship coming from Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, made a stopover on 8 and 9 June 2010 in the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr, which was a first for a French ship for 32 years. In June 2015, the ship was responsible for monitoring bluefin tuna fishing off Malta . She is scheduled to be withdrawn from service in 2025 and be replaced by one of a new class of ocean-going Patrol Vessels (the "Patrouilleurs Océanique").