K130 Corvette
Five ships have replaced the gepard class fast attack craft of the german navy.
K130 corvette. A consortium of three german shipbuilders is scheduled to officially begin works on the first of five new k130 corvettes in february this year the german navy chief has announced. The k130 braunschweig class sometimes korvette 130 is germany s newest class of ocean going corvettes. She was built by henry robb limited of leith scotland and launched on 16 january 1942. Hms lotus was a flower class corvette that served in the royal navy.
Naval news staff 08 feb 2019. Scale model of the k130 batch 2 corvette on lürssen stand at pacific 2019 two of the five batch 2 corvettes are being built at the lürssen shipyard in bremen while the three others are being manufactured and pre equipped at the german naval yards site in kiel. The k130 corvettes are designed with stealth features low draft and highly automated weapons and defence systems to support littoral warfare and particularly for operations of a multi national crisis reaction force. Speaking in dobbin linstow on january 10 vice admiral andreas krause said the steel cutting ceremony for the future fgs köln would be held on february 7.
Originally named hms phlox she was renamed in april 1942 after the previous hms lotus was transferred to the free french navy she was commissioned in may 1942. In october 2016 it was announced that a second batch of five more corvettes is to be procured from 2022 25.