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Blohm + Voss Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft Nordseewerke
German Navy
Lütjens class
F127
~€2 billion program cost
1999–2006
2003–present
4
3
1
3
Frigate
5,690 long tons (5,780 t ) ( Full load )
143 m (469 ft 2 in)
17.44 m (57 ft 3 in)
6 m (19 ft 8 in)
7.4 MW (9,900 hp) per diesel engine
2 × MTU V20 diesel engines 1 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbine 2 × controllable-pitch propellers
29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph)
4,000 nmi (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) at 18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph)
230 crew 13 aircrew
1 × Thales Nederland SMART-L air and surface surveillance radar 1 × Thales Nederland APAR air and surface search, tracking, and guidance radar 1 × Hensoldt TRS-4D mult-function AESA radar (modernization) 2 × STN Atlas 9600-M multi-function ARPA radars 1 × STN Atlas MSP 500 electro-optical fire control system 1 × STN Atlas DSQS-24B bow sonar
1 FL 1800 S II ECM suite 6 Sippican Hycor SRBOC launcher
1 × OTO-Melara 76 mm dual-purpose gun 2 × Mauser MLG 27 27 mm autocannons 32 × Mk 41 cells for SM-2 and RIM-162 ESSM surface-to-air missiles 2 × RAM launchers 2 × quadruple Harpoon anti-ship missile launchers 2 × triple torpedo launchers with MU90 Impact torpedoes
2 × Sea Lynx Mk.88A or 2 NH90 helicopters
The F124 Sachsen class is a German Navy 's class of air-defense frigates .
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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| 28 Sept 2026 | 143 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
Sachsen-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 Sachsen (F124). 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 / DDGHM. 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.
