MEKO (series of ships)

Type MEKO A-200 SAN of the South African Navy ( Valors class )

MEKO is a brand of the German ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems for a number of warships .

MEKO is Me hrzweck- Ko mbination and interprets the modularization capabilities to. Every potential customer can choose a mixture of weapon systems, electronics and size that is tailored to his needs. Since similar concepts are used in the construction, the ships are correspondingly inexpensive.

The MEKO range includes patrol ships , corvettes , frigates and small destroyers .

history

The MEKO concept was developed by the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg in the 1970s . The first customers for ships of the MEKO 360 series were Nigeria (with one ship, the Aradu (F89) ) and Argentina with the four-ship Almirante Brown class at the end of the 1970s .

In the 1980s, numerous ships of the MEKO 200 class for Turkey were added, Portugal ( Vasco da Gama class ), Greece, South Africa ( Valor class ) and Australia with New Zealand ( ANZAC class ) also acquired frigates of this size.

German Navy ships , such as the K130 and F124 classes , are based on the MEKO design. ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems works very closely with other European shipbuilders such as Royal Schelde in the Netherlands and Izar in Spain in order to save costs by using the same equipment. The electronics for the German ships are also mainly bought in Germany and the Netherlands.

A future version is the MEKO D class . The MEKO D will have a displacement of 3500 t, a length of 116 m and a width of 19.6 m. The armament consists of 2 × 16 cells VLS and a gun in caliber 127 mm as well as eight anti-ship missiles.

Another smaller variant is the MEKO CSL (Combat Ship for the Littorals) with a displacement of 2750 t and a length of 108.8 m and width 21 m and a speed of up to 45 kn and with stealth properties . The hull is made of steel and the superstructure is made of GRP . the range is 3500 nm at 16 kn. The CODAG (COmbined Diesel And Gas) is used as the drive .

The Israeli Navy wanted to build a corvette of this type with Israeli electronics under license. After most of the shipyard's shares had been bought up by a group of investors from the United Arab Emirates, these plans were abandoned for security reasons. In May 2015, the Israeli Navy decided to build four MEKO-A100 corvettes. The Sa'ar-6 class ships are to be built in Germany and put into service from 2019. Construction began in 2018.

In January 2016 it was announced that Algeria will purchase two frigates of the type MEKO 1-200 ALG. The first of the two frigates is already being tested at sea and should be delivered in 2016, the second in the following year. Both correspond to the type MEKO A-200 SAN frigates built by TKMS (South Africa).

Egypt should also receive MEKO corvettes, which would be financed by Saudi Arabia. The contract was frozen when Germany stopped future arms sales to Saudi Arabia in late October 2018.

units

Projects implemented or in the process of being implemented

Type	class	country	number	Delivery period	Length ü. At the)	Width (m)	Draft (m)	Ship gun	Anti-aircraft missiles	Anti-ship missile	image
MEKO 360H1	Aradu	Nigeria	1	1981	125.80	15.00	4.30	127/54 Compact	Aspide	Otomat
MEKO 360H2	Almirante Brown	Argentina	4th	1983-1984	125.80	15.00	4.30	127/54 Compact	Aspide	Exocet
MEKO 140 A16	Espora	Argentina	6th	1985-2002	91.20	11.00	3.33	76/62 Compact	-	Exocet
MEKO 200TN	Yavuz	Turkey	4th	1987-1989	110.50	14.20	4.14	Mk 45 Mod 2	Sea Sparrow	Harpoon
MEKO 200PN	Vasco da Gama	Portugal	3	1991	115.90	14.80	4.10	French 100 mm gun	Sea Sparrow	Harpoon
MEKO 200HN	Hydra	Greece	4th	1992-1998	117.00	14.80	4.10	Mk 45 Mod 2	Sea Sparrow	Harpoon
Frigate 123	Brandenburg	Germany	4th	1994-1996	138.85	16.70	4.35	76/62 Compact	Sea Sparrow	MM-38 Exocet
MEKO 200 TN II-A	Barbaros	Turkey	2	1993-1997	116.70	14.80	4.10	Mk 45 Mod 2	Sea Sparrow	Harpoon
MEKO 200 ANZAC	ANZAC	Australia & New Zealand	8 (OFF) 2 (NZL)	1996-2004	118.00	14.80	4.10	Mk 45 Mod 2	Sea Sparrow	Harpoon
MEKO 200 TN II-B	Salih rice	Turkey	2	1997-2000	118.00	14.80	4.30	Mk 45 Mod 2	Sea Sparrow	Harpoon
Frigate 124	Saxony	Germany	3	2002-2006	143.00	17.44	4.86	76/62 Compact	Evolved Sea Sparrow / Standard Missile 2	Harpoon
MEKO A-200 SAN	Valor	South Africa	4th	2003-2005	121.00	16.34	4.40	76/62 Compact	Umkhonto	MM-40 Exocet
MEKO 100 RMN	Kedah	Malaysia	6th	2006-2010	91.10	12.85	3.40	76/62 Compact	-	-
Corvette 130	Braunschweig	Germany	5	2008-2013	88.75	12.80	3.40	76/62 Compact	RIM-116 RAM	RBS15
Frigate 125	Baden-Württemberg	Germany	4th	from 2016	149.50	18.80	5.00	127/64 lightweight	RIM-116 RAM block 2	Harpoon
MEKO A-200 ALG	Herrad class	Algeria	2	2016-2017	121	?	?	127/64 lightweight	Umkhonto	RBS15
MEKO		Brazil	4th	2024-2028	107.2	15.95	5.2	76/62	Sea Ceptor (CAMM)	MM-40 Exocet

Unrealized projects

Type	class	country	number	Planned delivery	Project termination	Length ü. At the)	Width (m)	Draft (m)	Ship gun	Anti-aircraft missiles	Anti-ship missile	image
MEKO A-100	Gawron	Poland	2	from 2011	2012	95.20	13.30	3.60	Bofors 57 mm	Evolved Sea Sparrow / VL MICA	Harpoon

gallery

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  MEKO 140: ARA Robinson

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  MEKO 200: HS Psara (F 454)

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  MEKO 200 NZ: HMAS Anzac (F150)

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  MEKO 360: ARA Sarandi (D13)

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  MEKO K130: Braunschweig (K130)

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  MEKO F124: Hamburg (F220)

literature

• Karl-Otto-Sadler: A life for naval shipbuilding. MEKO - a success story. Mittler, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 3-8132-0887-7 .
• Jürgen Wessel: Deutsche Marinetechnik today and tomorrow: Concepts - Systems - Technologies. A documentation about the overwater naval shipbuilding in Germany from 1956 to 2006. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-613-02956-9 .

Web links

• MEKO A on naval-technology.com (engl.)
• Article about the future development of MEKO D ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 1.59 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ MEKO in the trademark register , accessed on July 15, 2012.
2. ↑ http://www.kn-online.de/Nachrichten/Wirtschaft/Kieler-Werften-Baustart-fuer-israelische-Korvette
3. ^ Two frigates type MEKO a-200 ALG for Algeria . In: European Security & Technology 1/2016. P. 79.
4. ↑ L'Arabie Saoudite bloque le contrat des corvettes Meko A200 en Egypte , La Tribune, November 5, 2018
5. ↑ Frigates Class Meko-200HN . Hellenic Navy. 2008. Archived from the original on May 30, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 17, 2008. 
6. ↑ globaldefence.net: Poland - End of the 'Gawron' project  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 10, 2012.