| Frigate F208 Niedersachsen | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Builders: | Bremer Vulkan AG Weser Blohm & Voss Nordseewerke Howaldtswerke |
| Operators: |  German Navy |
| Succeeded by: | F125 class frigate |
| Completed: | 8 |
| Active: | Bremen Niedersachsen Rheinland-Pfalz Emden Köln Karlsruhe Augsburg Lübeck |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 3,680 tonnes |
| Length: | 130.50 m |
| Beam: | 14.60 m |
| Draft: | 6.30 m |
| Propulsion: | CODOG (Combined diesel or gas) 2 × MTU 20V956 TB92 diesel engines, 8.14 MW total 2 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 38 MW total 2 × Renk STG 150-50 gearboxes, 10:1 (diesel) and 720:47 (turbine) 2 × propeller shafts, controllable pitch, five-bladed Sulzer-Escher propellers, later replaced with seven-bladed ones from Wegemann & Co. ("Bremen" only) 4 × Deutz MWM diesel-generators, 750 kW |
| Speed: | 30 knots |
| Range: | more than 4,000 nautical miles (7,000 km) at 18 knots |
| 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 & decoys: |
ESM/ECM EADS FL 1800S 2 × SCLAR decoys SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo decoy |
| 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. |