Kulmbach class mine hunter

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The five ships of the Type 333 Kulmbach class are former Type 343 Hameln class minesweepers that have been upgraded to minehunters using Seefuchs expendable drones to detonate detected naval mines.

1 Specifications
2 List of ships
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Specifications

Length: 54.40m
Beam: 9.20m
Draft: 2.84m
Displacement: 645t
Propulsion:
- 2 MTU 16V 538 TB91 diesel engines, 2240kW each
- 2 Renk PLS 25 gearboxes
- 2 propeller shafts driving controllable pitch propellers
- Speed: 18kts
Armament:
- 2 Bofors 40mm/L70 dual-purpose gun
- 2 Fliegerfaust 2 surface-to-air missile (MANPADS) stands
- Mine-laying capabilities
Sensors:
- Navigation radar
- Hull-mounted DSQS-11 mine-detection sonar
Equippement:
- Seefuchs mine hunting drones
- GPS-Navstar navigation system
- PALIS
- digital data links
- M 20/2 fire-control system
- Equippement for 4 mine divers
Complement: 43

[edit] List of ships

Pennant number	Name	Call sign	commissioned
M1091	Kulmbach	DRFU	May 23, 1990
M1095	Überherrn	DRFS	September 19, 1989
M1099	Herten	DRFP	March 26, 1991
M1096	Passau	DRFK	December 18, 1990
M1097	Laboe	DRFJ	December 7, 1989

Notes: The listed commission dates are from their original commission as Type 343 boats since they were not formally recommissoned after their upgrade to Type 333 mine hunters.

The ships currently belong to the 3. Minensuchgeschwader (3. mine sweeper squadron) based in Olpenitz at the Baltic Sea.

[edit] See also

Ship classes of the Deutsche Marine
Destroyers	101A Hamburg \| 103B Lütjens
Frigates and Corvettes	122 Bremen \| 123 Brandenburg \| 124 Sachsen \| F125 \| 130 Braunschweig
Fast Attack Craft	143 Albatros \| 143A Gepard \| 148 Tiger
Mine warfare	332 Frankenthal \| 333 Kulmbach \| 352 Ensdorf \| 742A Mühlhausen
Submarines	205B \| 206A \| 212A
Auxiliary ships	404 Elbe \| 423 Oste \| 441 Gorch Fock \| 520 Barbe \| 702 Berlin \| 703 Walchensee \| 704 Rhön \| 720 Helgoland \| 721 Eisvogel \| 722 Wangerooge \| 760 Westerwald