FGS SACHSEN - ANHALT F224
Ships in class:
FGS BADEN - WURTTEMBERG F222
FGS NORDRHEIN - WESTFALEN F223
FGS SACHSEN - ANHALT F224
FGS RHEINLAND - PFALZ F225
Class overview: final design dependent upon final requirements.
Builders: ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems / Lürssen
Operators: German Navy
Preceded by: Bremen class
Cost: approx. € 650 million per ship (can increase 3% p. a.)
Built: 2011 - present
Planned: 4
Building: 3
Completed: 1
General characteristics (Note that the final design may differ.)
Type: Frigate
Displacement: 7,200 tonnes
Length: 149.52m
Beam: 18.80m
Draft: 5m
Propulsion:
CODLAG
1 × 20 MWS gas turbine
2 × 4.7 MWS electric motors
4 × 2.9 MWS diesel generators
3 × gearboxes: one for each shaft and one to crossconnect the gas turbine to them
2 × shafts, driving controllable pitch propellers
1 × 1 MW bow thruster
Speed: 20 knots (37km/h) on diesel only, 26kn (48km/h) max.
Range: 4,000 nautical miles (7,400km)
Boats and landing craft carried:
Submarine ROVs
4 × 11m RHIB, capable of more than 40kn (74km/h)
Capacity: Space for two 6.1m containers
Complement: 190 (standard crew: 110)
Sensors and processing systems:
1 × Cassidian TRS - 4D AESA radar
2 × navigation radars tbc
IFF
diver and swimmer detection sonar (no anti-submarine sonar)
Laser warning
KORA - 18 Combined RADAR and COMMS ESM from GEDIS
Link 11, Link 16, Link 22 communications systems
Electronic warfare and decoys:
TKWA/MASS (Multi Ammunition Softkill System)
ECM
Armament:
Naval guns:
1 × 127mm lightweight Otobreda naval gun with guided VULCANO ammunition for land-attack missions (range: more than 100 km (62 mi))
2 × 27mm MLG 27 remote-controlled autocannons
5 × 12.7mm Hitrole-NT remote-controlled machine gun turrets
2 × 12.7mm heavy machine guns (manually controlled)
Anti - air missiles:
2 × RAM Block II surface - to - air missile launcher/CIWS, 21 cells each
Anti-ship missiles:
8 × RGM - 84 Harpoon anti-ship missiles (interim solution until joint sea/land attack missile RBS 15 MK4 becomes available)
Non-Lethal:
Water cannons
Aircraft carried: 2 × NH-90 helicopters