Oste-class fleet service ship

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A52 Oste in 2006
Class overview
Builders	Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, Flensburg
Operators	German Navy
Preceded by	Type 422 class
In commission	1988–
Completed	3
Active	3
General characteristics
Displacement	3,200 tonnes
Length	83.5 m (273 ft 11 in)
Beam	14.6 m (47 ft 11 in)
Draught	4.2 m (13 ft 9 in)
Propulsion	2 diesel engines, 3,300 kW (4,400 hp) each
Speed	21 knots (39 km/h)
Range	More than 5,000 nautical miles (9,300 km)
Complement	36 + up to 40 mission specialists
Sensors and processing systems	ELINT/COMINT sensors
Electronic warfare & decoys	Electronic countermeasures[specify]
Armament	None

The Type 423 Oste class are purpose built signals intelligence (SIGNINT/ELINT) and reconnaissance ships of the German Navy. Officially designated as "fleet service ships", they replaced the Type 422 class.

Accommodation for the crew was designed to civil standards, and the Oste class offers much more comfort for the crew than other ships in the German Navy.

List of ships[]

The ships were built at Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft in Flensburg.

All ships are currently based in Eckernförde and belong to the 1st Ubootgeschwader (1st Submarine Squadron) stationed in Eckernförde. The vessels received the same name and pennant numbers as the three Type 422 class vessels they replaced. To avoid the confusion, the ship names are sometimes suffixed with II.

Oker (A53) was reportedly spotted near the Syrian coast in August 2012.^[1] Later she was seen in Greenwich, UK in February 2017^[2]

References[]

Notes

Bibliography

• "Flottendienstboot OSTE-Klasse" (in German). Deutsche Marine. Retrieved 5 August 2008.

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