MEKO 360

Blohm Voss, Hamburg

Since 1970s

3,360 ts (fully loaded)

126 m

14 m

5.8 m

224

  • 2 screws
  • CODAG 2 Rolls- Royce Olympus gas turbines TM3B with 50 880 hp
  • 2 MTU 20V 956 diesel with 10,420 hp TM92
  • 2 Rolls- Royce Olympus gas turbines TM38 with 60,000 hp;
  • 2 Rolls- Royce Tyne gas turbines RM1C with 9900 hp

30.5 knots

6,500 nmi at 15 kn

1 x Eurocopter AS555 1 x Lynx Mk.89

The MEKO 360 class is a class battleship of the German ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems AG. The class is part of the MEKO - ship series, and was developed in the 1970s by the Blohm Voss.

History

The MEKO 360 class was the first of the MEKO - ship series, which was developed in the 1970s. The concept was based on a modular ship that could be easily readjusted for each customer.

Aradu

The first ship was commissioned, was the Nigerian Aradu ( F89 ), which was delivered on 25 January 1980. The ship corresponded to the type MEKO 360 H1. It is still the largest of the Nigerian Navy.

Because of the poor economic situation of the African state is assumed that the ship in the late 1990s was not operational. Since 2005 the ship has made trips back into international waters, it participated in the 200 - year anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar and the 200 - year celebration in honor of the Brazilian rise as an equal part of the Portuguese motherland part.

Ships for Argentina

On 23 January 1979, the German shipyard by the Argentine Navy (Plan Nacional de Construcciones Navales ) got in the framework of the "National Shipbuilding Plan" the contract to build four destroyers of the type Almirante Brown based on the MEKO 360 The ships were in the 1983 the 2nd Destroyer Squadron (now Division of destroyers ) put into service.

The Sarandi was the flagship of the Argentine Navy in 2005. The class is out there as a destroyer.

Units

Pictures

Swell

  • AC Toppan, "World Navies Today: Argentina" (English), Haze Gray & Underway, October 26, 2001, Accessed November 24, 2008
Frigate Draft (hull) Combined diesel and gas MTU Friedrichshafen Combined gas or gas Rolls-Royce Tyne Knot (unit) Aspide Otobreda 127/54 Compact Depth charge Exocet Nigerian frigate Aradu Almirante Brown-class destroyer Pennant number Alexandria (Virginia)
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