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     P-6160 Kranich     

Photo byEugenio Castillo Pert, Málaga
Country: Germany Germany
Class, [Type]: Type 148, [PTG].
Builder: CMN, Cherbourg, France.
Launch date: 26 May 1975.
Commission date: 06 August 1975.
Decommission date: 22 September 1998.

Displacement ( tons ): 234 standard, 265 full load.
Dimensions ( metres ): 47 x 7 x 2,7
Main machinery: 4 x MTU 16V 538 TB90 diesels ( 12.000 hp ).
Speed ( knots ): 36.
Range ( miles ): 570 at 30 knots, 1.600 at 15 knots.
Complement: 30 ( 4 officers ).

Guns: 1 x OTO Melara 76mm/62, 1 x Bofors 40mm/70.
Missiles:  SSM: 4 x Aerospatiale MM 38 Exocet ( two double launchers ).
Mines: can lay mines.

Radar: Air/Surface: Thomson CSF Triton, G band; Navigation: SMA 3 RM 20, I band; Fire Control: Thomson CSF Castor, I/J bands.
Countermeasures: Decoys: Wolke chaff launcher; ESM/ECM: Racal Octopus ( Cutlass B1 radar interceptor, Scorpion jammer ).

Comment: Served at the 5th Squadron based at Olpenitz. Transfered to Chilean navy in 1998. Renamed: Teniente Uribe ( LM-39 ).

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