Mackensen-class Guided Missile Destroyer

The Mackensen-class Guided Missile Destroyer is a recently developed class of stealth surface combatant utilitzed by the Bundesmarine. The first ship of the class entered service in 2005. There are six destroyers in this class. The Mackensen-class comparable in size to the Atago-class destroyers in the JMSDF currently. They are also the largest vessels to have stealth capabilities.

Specifications

 * Type: Destroyer
 * Service: 2005-Present
 * Specifications
 * Length: 550 feet (167.64 meters)
 * Beam: 68 feet (20.73 meters)
 * Draft: 21 feet (6.40 meters)
 * Displacement: 7,738 tons (Standard); 10,150 tons (Full Load)
 * Crew: 320
 * Power: 132,400 shp
 * Propulsion: 4 x General Electric LM2500+ gas turbines, 2 shafts
 * Range: 5,500 nautical miles (10,186 kilometers)
 * Speed: 33 knots (61.12 km/hr)
 * Sensors, Countermeasures, and Processing Systems
 * Thales Nederland SMART-L long-range air and surface surveillance radar (D band)
 * Thales Nederland APAR air and surface search, tracking and guidance radar (I band) x 1
 * Thales Nederland Sirius IRST long-range infrared surveillance and tracking system x 1
 * STN Atlas 9600-M multi-function I/J band ARPA radars x 2
 * STN Atlas MSP 500 electro-optical fire control system x 1
 * STN Atlas DSQS-24B bow sonar x 1
 * Link 11 Communications System
 * Link 16 Communications System
 * Link 22 Communications System
 * Armament
 * 1 x Otobreda 127mm/62-caliber compact naval gun (with guided VULCANO ammunition for land-attack missions (range: more than 99.78 km))
 * 1 x 64-cell Mark 41 Vertical Launching System (fires Harpoon, Tomahawk, VL-ASROC, SM-2, SM-3, ESSM, and Standard ERAM)
 * 2 x 32-cell Mark 56 Vertical Launching System (fires RIM-162C ESSM)
 * 2 x Denel Systems 35mm Naval Defender CIWS
 * 2 x Mark 49 RAM Launchers (fires RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missiles)
 * 2 x 12.75" triple fire torpedo tubes (fires Eurotorp MU90 Impact torpedoes)
 * Aviation Facilities: Facilities for two large helicopters, flight deck
 * Aircraft Carried: NHIndustries NH-90 x 2

Unit Run

 * BMS Mackensen (D188)
 * BMS Derflinger (D189)
 * BMS Prinz Eugen (D190)
 * BMS Graf Spee (D191)
 * BMS Lützow (D192)
 * BMS Seydlitz (D193)