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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.
- Length: 57.6m
- Beam: 7.8m
- Draft: 2.6m
- Displacement: 391 tonnes
- Propulsion: 13.235 kW
- Speed: 40+ knots
- 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
| 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 big cats and other mammal predators. The "S" and the number are part of the ship's full name i.e the "S 71 Gepard". When the ships were first commissioned, they were originally numbered (eg just "S 71"); however the crews petitioned for full names, and the decision was made to combine the original names with the additional animal name.
Since 1 July 2006, all FPBs are part of the 7 Schnellbootgeschwader (7th Fast Patrol Boat Squadron), whereas for the 8 years previously the flotilla was split into (hulls S 76—S 80) 2 Schnellbootgeschwader (2nd Fast Patrol Boat Squadron), and a smaller (hulls S 71—S 75) 7 Schnellbootgeschwader. The squadron is stationed in Warnemünde, where both predecessor squadrons were also based.
| 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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