Engineering:Type 707-class tanker

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Class overview
Builders: Warnemünde, Rostock
Operators:  German Navy
Preceded by: Rhön-class
Planned: 2
Building: 1
General characteristics
Type: Replenishment tanker
Displacement: >20,000 t[1]
Length: 173 m
Beam: 24 m
Draught: 8 m
Speed: 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Capacity: 15,000 m3
Complement: 42

The Type 707-class tankers are a series of replenishment oilers under construction for the German Navy to provide underway replenishment for its ships at sea. Procurement of two vessels was announced in July 2019, with delivery intended in 2025 to replace the Rhön-class tankers which are scheduled to be retired that same year.[1]

Units

Pennant Name Builder Laid down Launched Commissioned Notes
Neptun Werft 8 August 2023[1][2] 2025[1]
Neptun Werft

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "NVL Group Lays Keel Of First Type 707 Oiler For German Navy". 16 August 2023. https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2023/08/nvl-group-lays-keel-of-first-type-707-oiler-for-german-navy/. 
  2. ↑ "NVL Group Lays Keel for German Navy’s First Type 707 Oiler". 16 August 2023. https://www.defensemirror.com/news/34784/NVL_Group_Lays_Keel_for_German_Navy___s_First_Type_707_Oiler. 



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