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Video: German Navy’s First F125 Frigate Baden-Württemberg in Sea Trials.
| 2016
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by Bundeswehr |
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The
F125-class frigates are built by ARGE F125 consortium, lead by ThyssenKrupp
Marine Systems and supplemented by Blohm + Voss, Nordsweerke and Lurssen
Werft. A total of four vessels will be built for the German Navy. The
“Baden-Württemberg” is scheduled for delivery in 2016
and the last one in 2019. Although the F125-class ships are frigates their displacement is much larger, closer to that of a destroyer, as it reaches 7,200 tonnes. They are built to replace the eight Bremen-class frigates, which entered service in the ‘80s, and carry out a wide range of missions, both combat and humanitarian. Their crew is comprised on average of 150 people, although that can change depending on the mission. The vessels’ main weapons are the Oto Melara 127/64 LW Alleggerito gun, 2 x remote-controlled 27 mm Rheinmetall MLG27 cannons, 5 x HITROLE naval turrets with 12.7 mm heavy machine guns, 8 x Boeing RGM-84 Harpoon missiles, 2 x Raytheon RIM-116 RAM CIWS systems and a series of non-lethal weapons. |
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