Ships in this class:
FGS BREMEN F207 status - decommissioned
FGS NIEDERSACHSEN F208 status - decommissioned
FGS RHEINLAND-PFALZ F209 status - decommissioned
FGS EMDEN F210 status - decommissioned
FGS KOLN F211 status - decommissioned
FGS KARLSRUHE F212 status - decommissioned
FGS AUGSBURG F213 status - active
FGS LUEBECK F214 status - active
Builders: Bremer Vulkan / AG Weser / Blohm + Voss / Nordseewerke / Howaldtswerke
Operators: German Navy
Succeeded by: F125 class
Built: 1979–1990
In commission: 1982–present
Completed: 8
Active: 2
Retired: 6
General characteristics
Type: Frigate
Displacement: 3,680 tonnes (3,620 long tons)
Length: 130.50 m
Beam: 14.60 m
Draft: 6.30 m
Installed power:
CODOG (Combined diesel or gas)
2 × MTU 20V956 TB92 diesel engines, 8.14 mws(10,920 hp) total
2 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 38 mws (51,000 hp) total
2 × Renk STG 150-50 gearboxes, 10:1 (diesel) and 720:47 (turbine)
4 × Deutz MWM diesel-generators, 750 kws (1,010 hp)
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: excess > 4,000 nmi (7,400 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h)
Complement: 202 crew plus 20 aviation
Sensors and processing systems:
1 × EADS TRS-3D air search radar (three-dimensional)
1 × WM 25 combined surface search and fire control radar I/J band
1 × Thales Nederland STIR 180 fire-control radar I/J/K band
1 × Kelvin Hughes Nucleus 5000 I band navigation radar
1 × STN Atlas DSQS-23BZ hull-mounted sonar
Electronic warfare and decoys:
ESM/ECM EADS FL 1800S
2 × SCLAR decoys
SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo decoy
Armament:
Naval guns:
1 × OTO-Melara 76 mms dual-purpose gun
2 × Mauser MLG27 27 mms autocannons
Antiaircraft warfare:
1 × 8-cell launch system, 16 × Sea Sparrow surface to air missiles
CIWS:
2 × MK 49 launcher, 21 × RAM each
Anti-ship missiles:
2 × quadruple Harpoon anti-ship missile launchers
Antisubmarine warfare:
2 × Mark 32 324-mms twin torpedo launchers, 8 × DM4A1 or Mark 46 torpedo
Aircraft carried: Place for 2 Sea Lynx Mk.88A helicopters equipped with torpedoes, air-to-surface missiles Sea Skua, and / or heavy machine gun.