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Frigate
Brandenburg-class frigate is a frigate. It was built by Blohm + Voss Howaldtswerke Nordseewerke Bremer Vulkan. Reported operators include German Navy.
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Blohm + Voss Howaldtswerke Nordseewerke Bremer Vulkan
German Navy
Hamburg class
Niedersachsen class (cancelled) MEKO A-200 DEU class (actual)
€ 303 million per unit
1992–1996
1994–present
4
4
Frigate
3,600 tons (4,490 t full load)
138.85 m (455 ft 7 in)
16.7 m (54 ft 9 in)
4.35 m (14 ft 3 in) (6.3 m (20 ft 8 in) over sonar)
CODOG (combined diesel or gas) two propeller shafts , controllable pitch propellers two MTU 20V 956 TB92 diesel-engines , 8.14 MW each two General Electric LM2500 gas turbines , 38 MW total two Renk BGS 178 Lo gearboxes
>29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph)
4,000 nmi (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
26 officers, 193 enlisted
One Thales LW08 air search D band radar one Thales SMART-S air/surface surveillance F band radar two Thales STIR 180 fire-control radar two Raytheon Redpath I band navigation radar one STN Atlas DSQS-23BZ hull-mounted sonar one STN Atlas TASS 6-3 (LFTASS) towed array sonar ( Bayern only)
1 EADS FL 1800S ECM suite four TKWA/MASS (Multi Ammunition Softkill System) decoy dispenser (replaced two OTO-Melara SCLAR dispensers in 2009)
Naval guns: One OTO-Melara 76 mm /62 Mk 75 multi-purpose naval gun Two Mauser BK-27 27 mm rapid-fire cannons Anti-aircraft warfare : One Mk 41 Mod 3 vertical launch system for 16 Sea Sparrow antiaircraft missiles ( ESSM planned) CIWS: Two Mk 49 launchers for 21 x Rolling Airframe Missiles Anti-ship missiles : Two quadruple launchers for 8 x Harpoon anti-ship missiles ) (replaced two twin launchers for 4 x MM38 Exocet missiles ) Anti-submarine warfare : Four 324 mm torpedo tubes , Mk 46 torpedoes
Two Sea Lynx helicopters equipped with ASW torpedoes , or air-to-surface missiles Sea Skua , and a heavy machine gun.
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Sourced dimensions beside a 1.75 m human reference.
Points represent sourced observations, including revisions. Revisions on the same effective date are not separate inventory events. Ranges appear in the table and are not plotted as exact points.
| Observation / report period | Value | Source | Claim state |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Sept 2026 | 138.85 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 138.85 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 138.85 m | Wikipedia contributors | approved |
Brandenburg-class frigate equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
GermanyNavy exact named equipment holdings of Brandenburg (F123). Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only, not a national or parent-force total or combat-readiness measure. Source role(s): PRINCIPAL SURFACE COMBATANTS / FFGHM. No heading aggregate, carried armament, crew, payload, factory production or future order count inherited. The leading printed inventory count is retained; separately stated extra reserve, nonoperational or repair quantities inside parentheses are not added to it and remain verbatim in the excerpt. Source parentheses retain employment, lease, reporting designation, alternate model, or included-subset scopes exactly. Own fetched primary and alternate/model identity declarations are retained. Numbers inside an included subset are part of the printed count and are never added again; no sibling or parent specification is copied.