Country: Germany
Class, [Type]: Braunschweig, [FF].
Builder: Blohm + Voss, Hamburg, Germany.
Launch date: 19 April 2006.
Commission date: 16 April 2008.

Displacement ( tons ): 1.840.
Dimensions ( metres ): 89,12 x 13,28 x 3,4
Main machinery: 2 x MTU 20V 1163 TB 93 diesels ( 14.800 hp ).
Speed ( knots ): 26.
Range ( miles ): 4.000 at 15 knots.
Complement: 65 ( 11 officers ).

Guns: 1 x 76mm/62 OTO Melara Compact, 2 x 27mm Mauser BK-27.
Missiles:  SSM: 4 x Saab Bofors RBS-15 Mk 3 ( two launchers ), 2 x Mk 49 RAM launchers ( RIM-116 Block 1B missiles ).
Mines: can lay mines.

Radar: Air/Surface search: 1 x EADS TRS-3D; Navigation: 2 x Raytheon-STN Atlas Pathfinder/ST Mk 2 ARPA; Fire Control: 2 x Thales Mirador.
Countermeasures: Decoys: 2 × TKWA/MASS decoy launchers; ESM/ECM: EADS SPS-N 5000 ( interceptor ), EADS SPN / KJS 5000 ( jammer ).

Callsign: DRBA (     )
Comment: the landing pad can accomodate most helicopters in the German navy inventory, but the hangar is designed to store a couple of drone surveillance helicopters.
Homeport: Warnemünde.