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| Erfurt (F262), corvette of the German Navy |
This
is another photo gallery from my visit to Kiel in 2019,
on the first weekend of the 137th Kiel Week. The Kiel Week (German:
Kieler Woche) or Kiel Regatta is an annual sailing event in Kiel, the
capital of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The first weekend of the Kiel
Week, the famous Naval Base of Kiel, opens its gates for just four hours
per day, for thousands of tourists who are eager to visit the German
Navy warships and dozens of foreign warships which visit the city of
Kiel, to honor the Kiel Week. Among the German ships moored at the Base, was the third vessel of the Braunschweig-class (K130) corvettes, Erfurt (F262), a ship that was commissioned in 2013. Her sisters are Braunschweig, Magdeburg, Oldenburg, Ludwigshafen am Rhein while five more vessels of an improved batch are under construction, the Köln, Emden, Karlsruhe, Augsburg and Lübeck. Her length is about 89.1m, the beam 13.28m, while the displacement
reaches the 2,000t. She features reduced radar and infrared signatures and are equipped with UMS Skeldar V-200 helicopter UAVs for remote sensing. The hangar is too small for standard helicopters, but the flight deck is large enough for Sea Kings, Lynx, or NH-90s, the helicopters of the German Navy. The ship is armed with one Leonardo 76mm dual purpose gun, two (2) Rheinmetall MLG
27 remote weapon 27mm gun systems, two (2) RAM Block II launchers, four (4) RBS-15 Mk 3 (Mk 4 in the near future) anti-ship missiles, Stinger MANPADS, a variety of
machine guns and naval mines. The crew is
about 65 people. Enjoy more than 90 photos of the warship!