| F221 Hessen at the Kiel Week 2007 | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Builders: | Blohm + Voss Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft Nordseewerke |
| Operators: |  German Navy |
| Preceded by: | Lütjens class destroyer |
| Completed: | 3 |
| Active: | Sachsen Hamburg Hessen |
| 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 & decoys: |
1 FL 1800 S II ECM suite 6 Sippican Hycor SRBOC launcher |
| Armament: |
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| 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. |