Today, Tuesday, the last Braunschweig-class corvette, number 10, was laid down in Wolgast. While the stern was being laid at the Mecklenburg location of the NVL Group (formerly: Lürssen Defence), the last forecastle of the "Lübeck" was being manufactured at the Schleswig-Holstein shipyard GERMAN NAVAL YARDS KIEL. After the respective end of production, the fore and aft ships are brought to the Hamburg NVL location Blohm+Voss for the merger, the so-called "marriage joint".
The future Lübeck is the last unit of the second lot of the class 130 for the German Navy for the time being. According to the current armaments report, corvettes 6 to 8 are being fitted out in Hamburg. Construction number 9, the corvette "Augsburg", is still in the production phase. In terms of shipbuilding, the boats are on schedule. Delivery of the first batch 2 corvette, the “Köln” (F265), is expected in 2023, nine months later than when the order was placed in September 2017. By 2025, the inflow of all ships should be finished. The reason for the relatively small delay compared to other armaments projects is, among other things, a twelve-month "design freeze" for the deployment system requested by the client. This is intended to ensure that the boats and the deployment/operations support center are delivered with the full functionality of the deployment system. A delay in delivery of the first two units "Cologne" and "Emden" was accepted.
On September 12, 2017, the Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw) awarded the construction contract for the second lot of the K130 corvettes. The Federal Budget Act 2021 shows a sum of 2.273 billion euros for the procurement of this lot. The project is currently thirteen percent (311 million euros) above the estimate.
The first five units of the Braunschweig class have been in service since 2008 and are used in international alliance operations, for example as part of the UN mission in Lebanon (UNIFIL). The corvette "Erfurt" is currently reinforcing NATO's Standing Naval Maritime Group 1 in its tasks in the northern flank area. As a result of current developments, it was rerouted from the originally planned mission off the coast of the Levant towards the Norwegian Sea.
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