![]() Her keel was laid down on December 3rd, 2004 and she was officially launched on April 19th, 2006. For the F260 Braunschweig, final assembly occurred at the Blohm & Voss shipyard. Construction of the class is such that the vessel is manufactured as separate major components and brought together for final assembly at a shipyard. These corvettes are small enough to be maneuverable for costal patrol sorties but are designed large enough to content with "blue water" ocean-bound missions as well. The F260 Braunschweig is the lead ship of her five-strong class and is listed at 1,840 tons displacement. The newest German Navy corvette is the "K130" Braunschweig-class of ocean-going vessels. Displacement of these vessels run between 600 to 3,000 tons - a far cry from the mammoth battleships of World War 2. The "corvette" category of fighting ship is not a new ship type by any means but is regaining popularity with many nations fielding a navy, especially those that border smaller bodies of shared water. In fact, there has not been a battleship built anywhere in the world since the last Iowa-class vessel was commissioned in 1944. Shrinking post-war defense budgets, the advent of missile technology and advanced aircraft were all major reasons why the "big gun" battleship was lost to naval history. The cost of building large capital warships, plus the massive shipyards and resources needed to construct said ships, ran into the hundreds of billions of dollars. ![]() After World War 2 many navies of the world began trending towards construction of smaller warships. ![]()
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