Bremen-class frigate
Karlsruhe on 21 August 2013 | |
| Class overview | |
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| Builders | |
| Operators | German Navy |
| Preceded by | Köln class |
| Succeeded by | |
| Built | 1979–1990 |
| In commission | 1982–2022 |
| Completed | 8 |
| Retired | 8 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Frigate |
| Displacement | 3,680 tonnes (3,620 long tons) |
| Length | 130.50 m (428 ft 2 in) |
| Beam | 14.60 m (47 ft 11 in) |
| Draft | 6.30 m (20 ft 8 in) |
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| Propulsion | 2 × propeller shafts, controllable pitch, five-bladed Sulzer-Escher propellers, later replaced with seven-bladed ones from Wegemann & Co. ("Bremen" only) |
| Speed | 30 knots (56 km/h) |
| Range | more than 4,000 nmi (7,400 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h) |
| Complement | 202 crew plus 20 aviation |
| Sensors & processing systems |
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| Electronic warfare & decoys |
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| Armament |
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| Aircraft carried | Place for 2 Sea Lynx Mk.88A helicopters equipped with torpedoes, air-to-surface missiles Sea Skua, and/or heavy machine gun. |
The eight F122 Bremen-class frigates of the German Navy was a series of frigates commissioned between 1982 and 1990. The design was based on the proven and robust Dutch Kortenaer class but used a different propulsion system and hangar lay-out. The ships were built for anti-submarine warfare as a primary task although they were not fitted with towed array sonars. They were also equipped for anti-surface warfare, while having anti-aircraft warfare point defences.
This class of ship was one of the last to be constructed under post-war displacement limitations imposed by the WEU on West Germany.
All eight Bremen-class frigates were replaced by the F125-class frigate. Prior to that the Bremen class served as the backbone of the German Navy.