{"id":25404,"date":"2022-11-17T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=25404"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:15:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:15:18","slug":"frigate-126-rheinmetall-supplies-marine-light-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/fregatte-126-rheinmetall-liefert-marine-leicht-geschuetze\/","title":{"rendered":"Frigate 126: Rheinmetall supplies light naval guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damen Naval, the Dutch prime contractor for the design and delivery of the future frigates 126, has announced that the contract to equip the newbuildings with a medium-calibre gun has now been awarded to Rheinmetall.<\/p>\n<h3>MLG27-4.0<\/h3>\n<p>The Unterl\u00fc\u00df-based company will produce a modernised version of the well-known light naval gun, then named MLG27-4.0, whose core component is the BK-27M revolver gun. The gas-operated revolver gun can be operated with belted or belt-fed ammunition. It combines low weight (gun with barrel 102.3 kilograms) with a high rate of fire (1,700 rounds\/min) and is also used as armament for the Eurofighter, Gripen and Tornado. Rheinmetall claims that the BK27 is the most successful on-board cannon on the market, with over 3,000 systems sold.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25425\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25425\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25425\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Bildschirm\u00adfoto-2022-11-17-um-10.44.14-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"Future light naval gun MLG27-4.0 of the F126 from Rheinmetall. Graphic: Rheinmetall\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Bildschirm\u00adfoto-2022-11-17-um-10.44.14-300x239.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Bildschirm\u00adfoto-2022-11-17-um-10.44.14-1024x817.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Bildschirm\u00adfoto-2022-11-17-um-10.44.14-768x612.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Bildschirm\u00adfoto-2022-11-17-um-10.44.14-1080x861.jpg 1080w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Bildschirm\u00adfoto-2022-11-17-um-10.44.14-750x598.jpg 750w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Bildschirm\u00adfoto-2022-11-17-um-10.44.14-1140x909.jpg 1140w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Bildschirm\u00adfoto-2022-11-17-um-10.44.14-120x96.jpg 120w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Bildschirm\u00adfoto-2022-11-17-um-10.44.14-370x296.jpg 370w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Bildschirm\u00adfoto-2022-11-17-um-10.44.14.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25425\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Future light naval gun MLG27-4.0 of the F126 from Rheinmetall. Graphic: Rheinmetall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Compared to the previous MLG27 - according to Rheinmetall - the new MLG27-4.0 is a next-generation defence system with a fully digital system architecture. In addition, a few technological innovations have been implemented, such as an integrated simultaneous tracker, adjustable area fire and direct effective firing at external target coordinates. A daylight camera, infrared sensor and laser rangefinder are now standard features of such weapon systems.<\/p>\n<p>The F126 frigate will be equipped with two such systems. The contract now awarded therefore comprises eight MLG27-4.0 systems, but also includes an option for four more if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Press release ladies<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wie Damen Naval, der holl\u00e4ndische Hauptauftragnehmer f\u00fcr die Konstruktion und Lieferung der zuk\u00fcnftigen Fregatten 126 mitteilt, wurde der Auftrag zur Ausstattung der Neubauten mit einem mittelkalibrigen Gesch\u00fctz nun an Rheinmetall vergeben. MLG27-4.0 Die Unterl\u00fc\u00dfer werden eine modernisierte Version des bekannten Marineleichtgesch\u00fctzes anfertigen, dann MLG27-4.0 benannt, dessen Kernst\u00fcck die Revolverkanone BK-27M ist. Die gasangetriebene Revolverkanone kann [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"2normal","footnotes":""},"categories":[49,486,42,52],"tags":[3388,4668,278,3911],"class_list":["post-25404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-schiffsbau-news","category-headlines","category-news","category-technologie-news","tag-damen-naval","tag-fregatte-f126","tag-marineleichtgeschuetz","tag-rheinmetall-waffe-munition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49994,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25404\/revisions\/49994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}