SM-6 Cleared for International Sale; Australia, Japan, Korea Could Be Early Customers

[Khafee]

I am not the Marine expert and I am not sure whether on the 6000 ton F-124 class is deck space for VLS- SM3 as it is in the 7000 ton F-125.

New radar could be TRS-4D as in F-125 and GEDIS KORA18 data link.
Would make sense cause F-125 has provision for VLS ( SM3 ? ) and official Marine Website say "Exoatmospheric detecition and Interception".
If the systems will be integrated to Ramstein Ballistic Missile Defence Center , systems must more capable then it is published up to know in open sources.

Can you provide a higher rez pic or a link to better quality pic?

Thanks!

 

[Friendly]

link

Our baby

http://www.lurssen-logistics.com/de/marineschiffe/fregatten/f-125

Hope this video can help if you make screenshots.

https://www.welt.de/politik/deutsch.../Was-die-F125-zum-Stolz-der-Marine-macht.html

 

[Khafee]

Our baby

http://www.lurssen-logistics.com/de/marineschiffe/fregatten/f-125

Hope this video can help if you make screenshots.

https://www.welt.de/politik/deutsch.../Was-die-F125-zum-Stolz-der-Marine-macht.html

Is that a Schiebel drone?

 

[Friendly]

modified landing gears ?

http://augengeradeaus.net/2016/02/e...rer-hubschrauber-ab-ende-2021/comment-page-1/

 

[Penguin]

I am not the Marine expert and I am not sure whether on the 6000 ton F-124 class is deck space for VLS- SM3 as it is in the 7000 ton F-125.

New radar could be TRS-4D as in F-125 and GEDIS KORA18 data link.
Would make sense cause F-125 has provision for VLS ( SM3 ? ) and official Marine Website say "Exoatmospheric detecition and Interception".
If the systems will be integrated to Ramstein Ballistic Missile Defence Center , systems must more capable then it is published up to know in open sources.

Installing Mk41 vls on F125 would mean loosing the crew fitness room! (The fact that this area IS the gym, actually an empty space full with a plethora of machines for fitness exercises, may leave the possibility for an installation of few VLS modules there. However, a gym typically would be just 1 deck high, which is insufficient depth for even the shortest variany of Mk41: one would need to penetrate at least 1 more deck). You could stick in some Mk48 launchers like those used on e.g. the Danish Huitfeldt and Absolon classes, as these would be shorter and missiles would protrude above the deck ((6 cells per launchermodule, with twin-packed ESSM). But that could block the forward RAM launcher firing arc somewhat, so it could necessitate moving that forward.

Huitfeldt class: center = 4x 8-cell Mk41 VLS (32 SM-2 IIIA), left and right = 2x 6-cell Mk48 (= 2x12 ESSM)

The Sachsen class (F124) is fitted with 4x 8-cell Mk41 for 24 SM2 Block IIIA and 32 ESSM. If it can fit SM2 Block IIIA, it can also fit SM-3 and SM-6. Note how the RAM launcher is forward of the VLS installation.

Although I'm not entirely sure, TRS-4D can probably do target Interrupted Continuous Wave Illumination for semi-active homing missiles. With a range of 250km, it is more an APAR equivalent (150km, X-band ICWI capable) than a SMART-L equivalent (400km, D-band, not ICWI capable). D-band SMART-L EWC range is 60km for surface targets, 480km against air targets and 2000km for BMD. It does not do ICWI.
http://cmano-db.com/pdf/sensor/5175/
[URL]https://www.thalesgroup.com/sites/default/files/asset/document/tha0029_datasheet_apar_hr.pdf[/URL]
http://www.thales7seas.com/html5/pr...tasheet_SMART-L_DS121_10_10_H_nw_stijl_HR.pdf
https://www.thalesgroup.com/sites/default/files/asset/document/smart-l-ewc-v01.pdf
https://www.thalesgroup.com/sites/default/files/asset/document/smart-l-ewc-v01.pdf
Royal Netherlands Navy and Thales sign SMART-L Early Warning Capability contract

[URL]https://www.thalesgroup.com/sites/default/files/asset/document/Royal%20Netherlands%20Navy%20and%20Thales%20sign%20SMART-L%20Early%20Warning%20Capability%20contract.pdf[/URL]
[URL='https://www.thalesgroup.com/sites/default/files/asset/document/Royal%20Netherlands%20Navy%20and%20Thales%20sign%20SMART-L%20Early%20Warning%20Capability%20contract.pdf'][/URL]
New radar surprises even Thales technicians (in Dutch)
http://www.tubantia.nl/regio/hengel...radar-verrast-zelfs-thales-technici-1.6382185
(Program manager anecdote says this is some years ahead of US collegues)

 

[Penguin]

Is that a Schiebel drone?

No, that's the Bell JetRanger making the aerial video of the F125, viewed from aboard another ship.