Sachsen cuts a new wake. (Digest).Blohm + Voss Blohm + Voss is a German shipbuilding and engineering works. It was founded on April 5, 1877, by Hermann Blohm and Ernst Voss as a general partnership named Blohm & Voss. A shipyard was built on the island of Kuhwerder, near the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, covering 15,000 handed over the first F 124 frigate, the Sachsen, directly to the Federal German Office for Defence Technology and Procurement, which will in turn hand it over to the German Navy in December 2003 for official commissioning. The consortium Arge F 124--consisting of Blohm + Voss in Hamburg as the lead yard, HDW HDW Hardware HDW Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (German Shipbuilding Company) HDW Harley-Davidson of Washington HDW Hemoglobin Distribution Width HDW Hollow Dielectric Waveguide HDW High density satellite derived wind HDW Harvard Data Warehouse in Kiel and Nordseewerke in Emden--plans to build three such frigates: the second (Hamburg) will be delivered in 2004 and the third (Hessen) in 2005. The three F 124 class ships will be powered by two diesel engines and one gas turbine, and are slated to replace the three Lutjens class 103 B destroyers which were built 30 years ago for the German Navy by the United States. The 5600-tonne displacement, Meko-type Sachsen will be armed with Ram, Harpoon harpoon (härp  n`), weapon used for spearing whales and large fish. The early type was a flat triangular piece of metal with barbed edges and a socket for attaching a wooden handle, to the , SM2 and ESSM ESSM European Society for Sexual MedicineESSM Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile ESSM Exercise Science and Sports Medicine ESSM Emergency Ship Salvage Material ESSM Enterprise SQL Server Manager (Sybase) missiles, an Oto-Melara 76 mm topside gun and antisubmarine torpedoes and will also nest two ASW ASW Antisubmarine Warfare ASW Approved Social Worker ASW Application Software ASW a Small World (online community) ASW Art Supply Warehouse ASW Artificial Sea Water ASW Australian Standard White (wheat) helicopters. It is to be the first German Navy ship equipped with the Thales Nederland multi-function radar, the Apar. (B + V) |
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