Additional Info

• Ships in class

  NAME	NUMBER	LAUNCHED	COMMISSIONED
  Brandenburg	F 215	28 August 1992	14 October 1994
  Schleswid-Holstein	F 216	8 June 1994	24 November 1995
  Bayern	F 217	30 June 1994	15 June 1996
  Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	F 218	23 February 1995	1 December 1996

• Length
  • 138,9 meters.
• Beam
  • 16,7 meters.
• Draft
  • 6,8 meters.
• Displacement
  • 4.700 tons.
• Propulsion
  • 2 gas turbine General Electric LM-2500 with 38,000 HP
  • 2 diesel MTU ZPV956 with 8,140 HP.
  • 2 variable pitch propellers.
• Speed
  • 29 knots.
• Complement
  • 218.
• Sensors
  • Air radar: Thales LW-08.
  • Air/surface radar: Thales SMART S.
  • 2 fire control Thales STIR 180
  • Hull sonar Atlas DSQS-23BZ
  • IFF Mk-XII
• ESM/ECM
  • EADS FL 1800-S
• Countermeasures
  • 2 SCLAR.
• Systems
  • Combat system: Altas SATIR.
  • Data Link-11.
  • Communications SATCOM, INMARSAT, UHF, HF, VHF
• Weapons
  • 1 gun OTO Melara Mk-75 of 76 mm.
  • 1 launch Mk-41 VLS for air missile Sea Sparrow.
  • 4 anti-surface missile MM-38 EXOCET
  • 2 guns Rh-202 of 20 mm.
  • 2 launch Mk-49 de 21 cells for RAM
  • 2 Mk-32 Mod. 9 for Mk-46 Mod. 5.
• Aircraft carried
  • 2 AgustaWestland Sea Lynx.