On 30 May 2023, ABEKING & RASMUSSEN Schiffs- und Yachtwerft SE in Lemwerder ceremoniously handed over the two minehunting boats built for the Indonesian Navy on the Weser. The client had set a tight schedule for the shipyard with its almost 500 employees. The contract, which was awarded by the Indonesian Ministry of Defence on 29 January 2019, is worth 204 million US dollars (approx. 183 million euros). The design of the 62-metre vessels is based on the German Navy's Frankenthal class. The boats are equipped with a state-of-the-art sonar system and drones for mine warfare. As with the MCM mission systems used by the German Navy on the Frankenthal class, drones and a RHIB for intervention tasks are also supplied. The Kiel-based company for marine electronics Anschütz GmbH. The first steel plates were fired on 26 November 2020. Non-magnetisable steel was used to build the two boats. "We are one of the few shipyards in the world that can process this special steel," says Hans M. Schaedla, CEO of the manufacturing company Abeking & Rasmussen. The 3D laser welding system was developed by the company itself.
The minehunting boats are intended to replace the Pulau Rengat-class mine countermeasure units that entered service in Indonesia in 1988.
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