Gepard class fast attack craft
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The Type 143A Gepard class is Germany's last class of missile bearing Fast Attack Craft (FPB, Schnellboot in German) and the only one still in service with the Deutsche Marine (German Navy since 1990).
It's an evolution of the Type 143 Albatros class. It's planned that Gepard class vessels will gradually be supplemented by Braunschweig class corvettes starting in 2007.
[edit] Specifications
- Length: 57.6m
- Beam: 7.8m
- Draft: 2.6m
- Displacement: 391t
- Propulsion: 13.235kW
- Speed: 40+kts
- Armament:
- 1 OTO-Melara 76mm gun
- 4 MM38 Exocet anti-ship missiles
- 1 GDC Rolling Airframe Missile launcher, 21 cells
- Mine laying capability
- Countermeasures:
- Complement: 35
[edit] List of ships
| NATO pennant number |
Name | Call sign |
Commissioned |
|---|---|---|---|
| P6121 | S 71 Gepard | DRCE | December 7, 1982 |
| P6122 | S 72 Puma | DRCF | February 17, 1983 |
| P6123 | S 73 Hermelin | DRCG | April 28, 1983 |
| P6124 | S 74 Nerz | DRCH | July 14, 1983 |
| P6125 | S 75 Zobel | DRCI | September 28, 1983 |
| P6126 | S 76 Frettchen | DRCJ | December 16, 1983 |
| P6127 | S 77 Dachs | DRCK | March 22, 1984 |
| P6128 | S 78 Ozelot | DRCL | May 25, 1984 |
| P6129 | S 79 Wiesel | DRCM | July 12, 1984 |
| P6130 | S 80 Hyäne | DRCN | November 13, 1984 |
The boats are named after felines and other mammal predators. The "S" and the number are part of the names! The full name e.g. is "S 71 Gepard". After comissioning the boats, the first names were "S 71" etc. The crews voted for full names with animals. The decision was the combination of the first names together with the animal names!
Since the first of July 2006 all boats belong to the 7. Schnellbootgeschwader (7th Fast Patrol Boat Squadron). From 1998 to 2006 S 76—S 80 belong to 2. Schnellbootgeschwader (2. Fast Patrol Boat Squadron), and S 71—S 75 to the 7. Schnellbootgeschwader. Both squadrons were stationed in Warnemünde.
[edit] See also
| Ship classes of the Deutsche Marine | |
|---|---|
| Destroyers | 101A Hamburg | 103B Lütjens |
| Frigates and Corvettes | 122 Bremen | 123 Brandenburg | 124 Sachsen | F125 | 130 Braunschweig |
| Fast Attack Craft | 143 Albatros | 143A Gepard | 148 Tiger |
| Mine warfare | 332 Frankenthal | 333 Kulmbach | 352 Ensdorf | 742A Mühlhausen |
| Submarines | 205B | 206A | 212A |
| Auxiliary ships | 404 Elbe | 423 Oste | 441 Gorch Fock | 520 Barbe | 702 Berlin | 703 Walchensee | 704 Rhön | 720 Helgoland | 721 Eisvogel | 722 Wangerooge | 760 Westerwald |
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