Search This Blog

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Germany Fields Braunschweig-Class

The Germany navy this week has formally put into service the K-130 Braunschweig corvette, the first of five boats in a new class.

The 58-person vessels are supposed to augment Germany’s fast boats and frigates, with a special emphasis on littoral operations.

The Braunschweig-class ships are the most highly integrated of Germany’s surface combatants, building on work done for the Sachsen-class frigates, with a high degree of redundancy to retain combat capability even if damaged is incurred.

Read more
om

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Fair Use Notice

This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner.

The material is being made available in an effort to advance understanding arms trade activities, for non-profit research and educational purposes only.

I believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.

If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.

This is a completely non-commercial site for private personal use. No fee is charged, and no money is made off of the operation of this site.