The Potsdam-class guided missile frigate is a class of warship in service in Germany's Bundesmarine.
Specifications[]
- Type: Guided Missile Frigate
- Service Period: 2003-Present
- Characteristics:
- Length: 470 feet (143.26 meters)
- Beam: 58 feet (17.68 meters)
- Draft: 16 feet (4.88 meters)
- Displacement: 6,476 tons (Full Load)
- Crew: 242 (38 officers, 64 petty officers, and 140 enlisted)
- Propulsion:
- 1 x Rolls-Royce MT30 gas turbine
- 2 x MTU 20V 1163 TB93 diesel engines
- 2 x Renk ASM 195 F gearboxes (for the diesel engines)
- 1 x Renk AS 2/290 gearbox (gas turbine and cross connection)
- 4 x 1000 kW Deutz 16/628 diesel-generators
- 2 x shafts
- controllable pitch propellors
- Range: 4,000 nautical miles (7,408 kilometers) at 18 knots (33.34 km/h)
- Speed: 31.5 knots (58.34 km/h)
- Sensor Suite:
- Thales Nederland SMART-L D-Band long-range air and surface surveillance RDF
- Thales Nederland APAR I-Band air and surface search, tracking and guidance RDF
- Thales Nederland Sirius long-range IRST
- STN Atlas 9600-M multi-function I/J band ARPA RDF x 2
- STN Atlas MSP 500 electro-optical fire control system
- STN Atlas DSQS-24B bow ASDIC
- STN Atlas TASS 6-3 towed array ASDIC
- Countermeasures:
- EADS FL 1800 S II ECM suite
- Sippican Hycor SRBOC launcher x 6
- Rheinmetall Multi Ammunition Softkill System
- Armament:
- 1 x OTO Melara 127mm/54-caliber Compact naval gun
- 1 x 48-cell VLS (holds GWS.27 Sea Wolf AAMs, Thunderbolt AAMs, and Storm Wind cruise missiles and Orca ASW missiles )
- 2 x 4-cannister Broadsword AShM Launchers
- 4 x Mauser MLG-27 27mm autocannons
- 2 x 12.75" triple fire torpedo tubes (fires Eurotorp MU90 Impact torpedoes)
- 2 x Thales Nederland 30mm Goalkeeper CIWS
- Aircraft Carried: 2 x Sea Lynx Mk.88A or 2 x NH90 maritime helicopters
- Aviation Facilities: Hangar and flight deck for two 15 t helicopters
Unit Run[]
- BMS Potsdam (FM 219)
- BMS Munich (FM 220)
- BMS Dresden (FM 221)
- BMS Bonn (FM 222)
- BMS Frankfurt (FM 223)
- BMS Offenbach am Main (FM 224)
- BMS Köln (FM 225)
- BMS Stuggart (FM 226)
- BMS Hanover (FM 227)
- BMS Augsburg (FM 228)
- BMS Bremerhaven (FM 229)
- BMS Karlsruhe (FM 230)
- BMS Reutlingen (FM 231)
- BMS Solingen (FM 232)
- BMS Aachen (FM 233)