The Bundeswehr frigates – warships in active use

As of: February 23, 2024, 10:57 a.m

By: Jakob Koch

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Navy frigates are considered the smallest warships - they are mostly used for anti-aircraft and anti-ship purposes.

1 / 5Baden-Württemberg class: frigates “Baden-Württemberg” (photo), “North Rhine-Westphalia”, Saxony-Anhalt” and “Rhineland-Palatinate” © IMAGO/Oliver Wunder

2 / 5Frigates of the Sachsen class: “Saxony”, “Hamburg” and “Hessen” (photo).

© IMAGO / Pond5 Images

3 / 5 Frigates of the “Brandenburg” class: “Brandenburg”, “Schleswig-Holstein”, “Bayern” (photo) and the “Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania” © IMAGO/Mc3 Andrew Langholf/US Navy

4 / 5The “Köln” class consisted of the frigates “Köln”, “Emden”, “Augsburg” (photo), “Karlsruhe”, “Lübeck” and “Braunschweig”.

None of them are active anymore.

© IMAGO/Norbert Fellechner

5 / 5The frigates of the “Bremen” class, which are “Bremen”, “Niedersachsen”, “Rheinland-Pfalz” (photo), “Emden”, “Köln”, “Karlsruhe”, “Augsburg” and the “Lübeck”. now all decommissioned.

© IMAGO/Sven Eckelkamp