Kriegsmarine

The Kriegsmarine (or "War Navy") is the name of the German Navy . The main war vessels available to the Kriegsmarine were U-boats, three pocket battleships, two battleships (Bismarck and Tirpitz), two battlecruisers (Scharnhorst and Gneisenau), three heavy cruisers, six light cruisers, and various smaller ships such as destroyers, torpedo boats, minelayers, minesweepers, gunboats and E-boats.

Ships and weapon systems

The main weapons systems of the German Navy are:

Surface Vessels

• Frigates
  • Bremen class (guided missile frigate)
  • Brandenburg class (anti-submarine frigate)
  • Sachsen class (anti-air frigate)
  • F125 class (multi-purpose frigate), planned, replace Bremen class
• Corvettes
  • Braunschweig class (multi-purpose corvette), under construction, replace Albatros class
• Fast Patrol Boats
  • 0 Gepard class (fast patrol boat)
• Mine Counter-Measure Vessels
  • Ensdorf class (minesweeper, drone guidance)
  • Kulmbach class (mine hunter)
  • Frankenthal class (mine hunter)
  • Seehund class (MCM drone)
  • M1052 Mühlhausen (diver support)

Submarines

• Submarines
  • U206A class (coastal submarine)
  • U212A class (multi-purpose submarine), 2 more planned, replace U206A class

Auxiliary Vessels

• Landing craft
  • Lachs class
• Auxiliary vessels
  • Berlin class (fleet auxiliary), one more planned
  • Westerwald class (ammunition transport)
  • Elbe class (tender)
  • Rhön class (tanker)
  • Tegernsee class (coastal tanker)
  • Oste class (reconnaissance ship)
  • Fehmarn class (ocean tug, salvage vessel)
  • Wangerooge class (tug/training ship)

Aircraft

• Maritime Patrol Aircraft
  • Bréguet Atlantic
  • P-3 Orion, replace Bréguet Atlantic
  • Dornier Do 228
• Helicopters
  • 21 Sea Lynx Mk88
  • 20 Sea King Mk41
  • 30 NH90, planned, replace Sea King and Sea Lynx