P-6154 Elster

Country:  Germany

Class, [Type]: Type 148, [PTG].

Builder: CMN, Cherbourg, France.

Launch date: 08 July 1974.

Commission date: 14 November 1974.

Decommission date: 27 August 1997.

Displacement ( tons ): 234 standard, 265 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 47 x 7 x 2,7

Main machinery: 4 x MTU 16V 538 TB90 diesels ( 12.000 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 36.

Range ( miles ): 570 at 30 knots, 1.600 at 15 knots.

Complement: 30 ( 4 officers ).

Guns: 1 x OTO Melara 76mm/62, 1 x Bofors 40mm/70.

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

Mines: can lay mines.

Radar: Air/Surface: Thomson CSF Triton, G band; Navigation: SMA 3 RM 20, I band; Fire Control: Thomson CSF Castor, I/J bands.

Countermeasures: Decoys: Wolke chaff launcher; ESM/ECM: Racal Octopus ( Cutlass B1 radar interceptor, Scorpion jammer ).

Callsign: DRBN ()

Comment: Served at the 5th Squadron based at Olpenitz. Transfered to Chilean navy in 1997. Renamed: Teniente Orella ( LM-37 ).

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