P-6114 Bussard

Country:  Germany

Class, [Type]: Type 143, [PTG].

Builder: Lürssen Werft, Vegesack, Germany.

Launch date: 14 April 1975.

Commission date: 14 August 1976.

Decommission date: 24 March 2005.

Displacement ( tons ): 398 full load.

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

Main machinery: 4 x MTU 16V 956 TB91 diesels ( 17.700 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 40.

Range ( miles ): 1.300 at 30 knots.

Complement: 40 ( 4 officers ).

Guns: 2 x OTO Melara 76mm/62.

Missiles:  SSM: 4 x Aerospatiale MM 38 Exocet ( two double launchers ).

Torpedoes: 2 x 533mm tubes for AEG Seeal.

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: Racal Octopus ( Cutlass interceptor, Scorpion jammer ).

Callsign: DRDN ()

Comment: The ships of this class are all wooden hulled. Sold to Ghana, renamed Yaa Asantewa.

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