Sachsen-class frigate

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The F124 Sachsen class is a German Navy's class of air-defense frigates. The design of the hull is based on that of the F123 Brandenburg class but with enhanced stealth features designed to deceive an opponent's radar and acoustic sensors. The class incorporates an advanced multifunction radar APAR and a SMART-L long-range radar which is purported to be capable of detecting stealth aircraft and stealth missiles. Although designated as frigates, they are comparable to destroyers in capability. The Sachsen class frigates replaced the Lütjens class destroyers. They are similar to the Dutch De Zeven Provinciën class, in that both are based on the use of a common primary anti-air warfare system built around the APAR and SMART-L radars as well as the area-defence SM-2 Block IIIA and point-defence Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM) surface-to-air missiles. The German government contracted for three ships in June 1996 with an option on a fourth that was provisionally to have been named Thüringen...

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