German frigate Karlsruhe (F212)
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 Karlsruhe in Kiel in August 2013 | |
| History | |
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| Name | Karlsruhe |
| Builder | Howaldtswerke, Kiel |
| Laid down | 10 March 1981 |
| Launched | 8 January 1982 |
| Commissioned | 19 April 1984 |
| Decommissioned | 16 June 2017 |
| Identification |
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| Status | Laid up, to get sunk. https://www.kn-online.de/schleswig-holstein/fregatte-karlsruhe-wird-auf-der-ostsee-vor-schleswig-holstein-gesprengt-IYNQNFN6SBG5XIIWVXWHDA3JRY.html |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Bremen-class frigate |
| Displacement | 3,680 tonnes (3,620 long tons) |
| Length | 130.50 m (428 ft 2 in) |
| Beam | 14.60 m (47 ft 11 in) |
| Draft | 6.30 m (20 ft 8 in) |
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| Propulsion | 2 × propeller shafts, controllable pitch, five-bladed Sulzer-Escher propellers |
| Speed | 30 knots (56 km/h) |
| Range | more than 4,000 nmi (7,400 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h) |
| Complement | 202 crew plus 20 aviation |
| Sensors & processing systems |
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| Electronic warfare & decoys | |
| Armament |
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| Aircraft carried | Place for 2 Sea Lynx Mk.88A helicopters equipped with torpedoes, air-to-surface missiles Sea Skua, and/or heavy machine gun. |
Karlsruhe was a Bremen-class frigate of the German Navy. She was the sixth ship of the class to enter service, and the fifth ship to serve with one of the navies of Germany to be named after the city of Karlsruhe, in Baden-Württemberg. She is currently laid up, pending disposal as a trials and target ship.
Karlsruhe was laid down in March 1981 at the yards of Howaldtswerke, Kiel and launched on 8 January 1982. After undergoing trials Karlsruhe was commissioned on 19 April 1984. During her later career she was based at Wilhelmshaven as part of 4. Fregattengeschwader, forming a component of Einsatzflottille 2.
Refits and roles
Karlsruhe, in common with the other ships of her class, underwent several refits and upgrades during her time in service. During her service in the Adriatic Sea in the mid-1990s she was temporarily equipped with the Goalkeeper CIWS, an air defence system. In 1995 she received the RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile system, and in 1998 was equipped with a new central computer and TRS 3D/32 radar antenna, replacing the DA 08 air and sea surveillance antenna. With the end of the Cold War the ship's role changed from being primarily convoy protection, submarine hunting, and general naval warfare, to include international peacekeeping and intervention missions.
