MEKO

MEKO is a trademark of the German ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems for a number of warships.

MVC stands for multi-purpose combination and indicates the modularization capabilities. Any potential customer can select a shape adapted to his needs mix of weapon systems, electronics, and size. Since similar concepts are used in the construction, the price can be reduced.

The MEKO series includes patrol vessels, corvettes, frigates and small destroyers.

History

The MEKO concept was developed in the 1970s by the Blohm Voss shipyard in Hamburg. The first customer for ships of the series MEKO 360 were in the late 1970s Nigeria ( with a ship, the Aradu ( F89 ) ) and Argentina with the comprehensive four ships Almirante Brown class.

In the 1980s, many ships of the class MEKO 200 for Turkey were added, and Portugal ( Vasco da Gama class), Greece, South Africa ( Valour class) and Australia with New Zealand ( ANZAC class) frigates purchased this size.

Similarly, ships of the German Navy, as the classes K130 and F124 are similar to the MEKO design. Here, ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems is sometimes very closely with other European shipbuilders such as Royal Scheldt in the Netherlands and Izar in Spain together to save by the same equipment costs. The electronics for the German ships is purchased mainly in Germany and the Netherlands.

A future version is the class MEKO D. The MEKO D is a displacement of 3500 tons and a length of 116 m and a width of 19.6 m have. The armament consists of 2 x 16 cells VLS and a gun in the caliber of 127 mm and eight anti-ship missiles.

Another smaller version is the MEKO CSL with stealth characteristics.

Units

Realized or located in the realization of projects

Unrealized projects

Pictures

MEKO 200: HS Psara (F 454)

MEKO 200 NZ: HMAS Anzac ( F150 )

MEKO K130: Braunschweig ( K130 )

MEKO F124 Hamburg ( F220 )