Baden-Württemberg-class Frigate

The Type 125 Baden-Württemberg-class of frigates, currently in development for the German Navy by ARGE F125, a joint-venture of Thyssen-Krupp and Lürssen. F125 is officially classified as frigates but in size and role they could be classified as destroyers, since, with a displacement of more than 7,200 tons, they will be the biggest class of frigates worldwide. They are to replace the Bremen-class on a one-to-one basis.

Specifications

 * Type: Guided Missile Frigate
 * Service Period: 2016-
 * Length: 490 feet 7 inches (149.53 meters)
 * Beam: 61 feet 8 inches (18.8 meters)
 * Draft: 16 feet 5 inches (5 meters)
 * Displacement: 7,940 tons (Full Load)
 * Capacity: Space for 20 foot (6.1 meters) containers x 2
 * Crew: 190
 * Propulsion: CODLAG, 1 x 20 MW gas turbine, 2 x 4.7 MW electric motors, 4 x 2.9 MW diesel generators, 3 x gearboxes: one for each shaft and one to crossconnect the gas turbines to them, 2 x shafts, driving controllable pitch propellers, 1 x 1 MW bow thruster
 * Range: 4,000 nautical miles (7,408 kilometers)
 * Speed: 33.2 knots (61.49 km/hr)
 * Sensor Suite 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
 * KORA-18 Combined RADAR and COMMS ESM from GEDIS
 * Link 11, Link 16, Link 22 communications systems
 * Electronic Countermeasures/EW Suite:
 * TKWA/MASS (Multi Ammunition Softkill System)
 * 1 FL 1800 S II ECM suite
 * 6 Sippican Hycor SRBOC launcher
 * Armament:
 * 1 x Otobreda 127mm lightweight naval gun (with guided Vulcano ammunition for land attack missions)
 * 2 x 27mm MLG-27 remoted-controlled autocannons
 * 5 x 12.7 mm Hitrole-NT remote-controlled machine gun turrets
 * 2 x 12.7 mm heavy machine guns (manually controlled)
 * 2 x 21-cell Mk.49 RAM Block II SAM Launchers/CIWS
 * 2 x 4-cell Mk.141 Harpoon SSM Launchers (fires RGM-84 Harpoon, RBS.15 Mk.4 Anti-Ship Missiles)
 * 2 x Search Lights
 * 2 x Water Cannons
 * Aircraft Carried: 2 x NHIndustries NH90 helicopters
 * Boats/Landing Craft Carried: Submarine ROVs, 4 x 11 m (36 ft 1 in) dinghies, capable of more than 40 knots (74.08 km/h)

Unit Run

 * BMS Baden-Württemberg (F223)
 * BMS Nordrhein-Westfalen (F224)
 * BMS Sachsen-Anhalt (F225)
 * BMS Rheinland-Pfalz (F226)
 * BMS Saarland (F227)
 * BMS Niedersachsen (F228)
 * BMS Bremen (F229)
 * BMS Schliesen (F230)