P-6127 Dachs

Country:  Germany

Class, [Type]: Type 143A, [PTG].

Builder: Krögerwerft, Rendsburg, Germany.

Launch date: 14 December 1982.

Commission date: 22 March 1984.

Decommission date: 31 March 2012.

Displacement ( tons ): 391 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 57,6 x 7,8 x 2,6

Main machinery: 4 x MTU 16V 956 SB80 diesels ( 13.200 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 40.

Range ( miles ): 2.600 at 16 knots, 600 at 33 knots.

Complement: 34 ( 4 officers ).

Guns: 1 x OTO Melara 76mm/62.

Missiles:  SSM: 4 x Aerospatiale MM 38 Exocet ( two double launchers ); SAM: GDC RAM, 21 cells.

Mines: can lay mines .

Radar: Surface/Firing: Signaal WM27, I/J bands; Navigation: SMA 3 RM 20, I band.

Countermeasures: Decoys: Buck-Wegmann Hot Dog/Silver Dog ( infrared flares / chaff ); ESM/ECM: FL 1800 Mk2 ( radar interceptor and jammer ).

Callsign: DRCK ()

Comment: The ships of this class are all wooden hulled, and have an aluminium structure.

Homeport: Warnemünde.

Unit: 2nd Patrol Squadron.

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