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Pictured is the 3,450-ton Bundesmarine ^-class multipurpose tender Werra, 0Ur’h of six sisters being constructed to replace the 13 /Mem-class tenders, the last which is scheduled to leave service this 1^ Member. The is/Ae-class tenders are Ull( merchant standards in the config- eation of a small dry cargo ship, and arc currently unarmed. The 330-foot ■Ps transport supplies and modular r?Pair facilities in up to 24 20-foot ship- P'nK containers and can carry 450 tons of parS° fuel and 129 tons of munitions.
°ur of the ships normally will be config- to support guided missile boats; two 11 support mine countermeasures ships.
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?he Port Royal (CG-73), the 27th and fas’ Ticonderoga (CG-47)-class, Aegis- MUipped guj(je(j missiie cruiser, was animissioned on 9 July at Savannah, eorgia, near the sites of the American Revolution and Civil War battles for 'ch she was named. An earlier Port oyal—a wooden-hulled, sidewheel gun
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'>6. Ingalls Shipbuilding built 19 of the e8's cruisers, including the class proto- fPe Ticonderoga, commissioned in January 1983, while Bath Iron Works udt the remainder. Current and future e8is-equipped warship construction is Entered on the Arleigh Burke (DDG-51)- c ass guided missile destroyers being built ’he same two yards. No further new Muiser construction is planned by any of e World’s navies.
n addition to acquiring nine ex-U.S. Navy "0* (FF-1052)-class frigates in 1993-94, e Turkish Navy is involved in a coproaction contract with Germany’s Blohm + nss for a second quartet of MEKO hOTN frigates. The Barbaras, seen here ast spring while fitting out, will be com- Jaissioned in March 1995 and followed by he Turkish-built Oruf Reis a year later, onstruction of the second pair again will e shared and is to be completed by 1998. | he four “Track II” MEKOs will have a c,lmbined diesel and gas turbine propul- Sl°n Plant, an upgraded weapon and sensor suite, improved NBC warfare pro- eetion, and better air-conditioning.