PORT EVERGLADES, FLORIDA, U.S.A. 2010/5/2

Builders: Blohm + Voss Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft Nordseewerke
Operators: German Navy
Preceded by: Lütjens class destroyer
General characteristics
Displacement: 5,690 tonnes
Length: 143.0m
Beam: 17.44m
Draft: 5.0m
Propulsion: CODAG (combined diesel and gas)
2 propeller shafts, controllable pitch propellers
2 MTU V20 diesel engines, 7.4 MW each
1 General Electric LM2500 gas turbine
2 Renk ASM 195 F gearboxes (for the diesel engines)
1 Renk AS 2/290 gearbox (gas turbine and cross connection)
4 1000 kW Deutz 16/628 diesel-generators
Speed: 29 knots
Range: 4,000+ nautical miles at 18 kn (7,400+ km at 33 km/h)
Complement: 230 crew + 13 aircrew
Sensors and processing systems: 1 Thales Nederland SMART-L long-range air and surface surveillance radar (D band)
1 Thales Nederland APAR air and surface search, tracking and guidance radar (I band)
1 Thales Nederland Sirius IRST long-range infrared surveillance and tracking system (fitted for but not with)
2 STN Atlas 9600-M multi-function I/J band ARPA radars
1 STN Atlas MSP 500 electro-optical fire control system
1 STN Atlas DSQS-24B bow sonar
Electronic warfare and decoys: 1 FL 1800 S II ECM suite
6 Sippican Hycor SRBOC launcher
Armament: 1 MK. 41 VLS Tactical with 8 cells for 32 RIM-162 ESSM (4 per cell) and 24 SM-2 IIIA surface-to-air missiles
2 RAM launchers with 21 surface-to-air/CIWS-missiles each
2 quadruple Harpoon anti-ship missile launchers
1 OTO-Melara 76 mm dual-purpose gun
2 Mauser MLG 27 27 mm autocannons
2 triple torpedo launchers with EuroTorp MU90 Impact torpedoes
Aircraft carried: 2 Sea Lynx Mk.88A or 2 NH90 helicopters equipped with torpedoes, air-to-surface missiles Sea Skua, and/or heavy machine gun