The MEKO 200 is a
frigate design by the Blohm + Voss shipyard of Germany, part of the MEKO family
of warships. They are 121 metres long and can carry 120 crew members. It is
armed with a main gun, two secondary guns, two cannons, eight
surface-to-surface missiles, 32 surface-to-air missiles, two anti-submarine
warfare (ASW) torpedo tubes, and sea mines.
The frigate is
designed for long-term operations across various general missions and tasks,
including patrol and interdiction, special force operations support, SAR, and
humanitarian operations.
It can also engage in
full-four-dimensional warfare (AAW, ASW and ASuW, BCW). The frigate has a
maximum speed of more than 29 knots and a range of 7,200 nautical miles at 16
knots thanks to a CODAG-WARP (water jet and refined propellers) propulsion
system. This arrangement allows for extremely quiet acoustic signatures, a high
degree of propulsion redundancy and damage survivability. The frigates are
primarily built by the German company TKMS.
