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Tuesday, April 01, 2014

GE LM2500 Gas Turbine Powers German Navy's Christened Baden-Wurttemberg F125 Frigate

Baden-Wurttemberg (F125-class) frigateGE Marine reports that the German Navy's Baden-Wurttemberg (F125-class) frigate was christened in December 2013, powered by a GE LM2500 gas turbine-based propulsion system.

The christening ceremony was held at ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems in Hamburg, Germany.

According Dr. Hans Christoph Atzpodien, CEO of ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions AG and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems GmbH, "The F125 is a completely new type of frigate with numerous technological innovations which will secure a solid basic workload for the shipyards involved in the coming years and help the German naval shipbuilding industry maintain and expand its leading position in key technologies."

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