Bremen-class Patrol Frigate

The eight F122 Bremen-class frigates of the German Navy were commissioned between 1982 and 1990. The design is similar to the Dutch Kortenaer class but uses a different hull and propulsion system. The ships were built for anti-submarine warfare as a primary task even though they are not fitted with towed array sonars. They are also suited for anti-aircraft warfare and anti-surface warfare. This class of ship was one of the last to be constructed under post-war displacement limitations imposed by the WEU on West Germany. All eight Bremen-class frigates will be replaced by the planned four Baden-Württemberg-class and six MKS-180 frigates, starting around 2016. Until then, the Bremen class serves as the backbone of the German Navy.

Specifications

 * Type: Frigate
 * Service period: 1982-2021
 * Characteristics:
 * Length: 428 feet 1.75 inches
 * Beam: 47 feet 10.8 inches
 * Draft: 20 feet 8.03 inches
 * Displacement: 3,680 tons
 * Crew: 222 (202 ship crew and 20 air crew)
 * Range: 4,000 nautical miles (7,408 kilometers) at 18 knots (33.34 km/h)
 * Speed: 30 knots (55.56 km/h)
 * Propulsion
 * CODOG (Combined diesel or gas)
 * 2 x MTU 20V956 TB92 diesel engines, 8.14 MW total
 * 2 x General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 38 MW total
 * 2 x Renk STG 150-50 gearboxes, 10:1 (diesel) and 720:47 (turbine)
 * 2 x propeller shafts, controllable pitch, five-bladed Sulzer-Escher propellers, later replaced with seven-bladed ones from Wegemann & Co.
 * 4 x Deutz MWM diesel-generators, 750 kW
 * Sensor Suite:
 * 1 x EADS TRS-3D air search radar (three dimensional)
 * 1 x WM 25 combined surface search and fire control radar I/J band
 * 1 x Thales Nederland STIR 180 fire-control radar I/J/K band
 * 1 x Kelvin Hughes Nucleus 5000 I band navigation radar
 * 1 x STN Atlas DSQS-23BZ hull-mounted sonar
 * Countermeasures
 * ESM/ECM EADS FL 1800S
 * 2 x SCLAR decoys
 * AN/SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo decoy
 * Armament
 * 1 x OTO-Melara 76mm/62-caliber Dual Purpose Naval Gun
 * 2 x Mauser MLG-27 27mm autocannons
 * 1 x 8-cell Mk.29 Sea Sparrow SAM Launcher (fires RIM-7P Sea Sparrow SAMs)
 * 2 x 4-cell Mk.141 Harpoon SSM Launchers (fires RGM-84 Harpoon AShMs)
 * 2 x Mk.32 triple fire torpedo tubes (fires 8 x DM4A1 or Mk.46 torpedoes)
 * 2 x 21-cell Mk.49 RAM Launchers (fires RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missiles)
 * Aircraft Carried: 2 x Westland Lynx Mk.88A maritime helicopters

Unit Run

 * BMS Bremen (F207)
 * BMS Niedersachsen (F208)
 * BMS Rheinland-Pfalz (F209)
 * BMS Emden (F210)
 * BMS Köln (F211)
 * BMS Karlsruhe (F212)
 * BMS Augsburg (F213)
 * BMS Lübeck (F214)