{"id":26378,"date":"2022-12-28T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=26378"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:14:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:14:33","slug":"frigate-f126-leonardo-delivers-lionfish-top-artillery-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/fregatte-f126-leonardo-liefert-artilleriesystem-lionfish-top\/","title":{"rendered":"F126 frigate: Leonardo supplies LIONFISH Top artillery system"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to a communiqu\u00e9 from the Italian aerospace and defence company Leonardo, the LIONFISH Top artillery system has been selected as the small-calibre weapon for the German Navy's future F126 frigate class. LIONFISH Top is the variant of Leonardo's 12.7mm weapon system,\u00a0whose gun armour meets high stealth requirements.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Leonardo's LIONFISH-12.7-TOP weapon system. Graphic: Leonardo SpA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Self-defence system<\/strong><\/p>\n

The remote-controlled weapon system has electro-optical target detection and tracking, consisting of a daylight camera (detection up to 9.5 kilometres), an infrared camera (detection range up to 12 kilometres) and a laser rangefinder (tracking from 5.5 kilometres).\u00a0<\/span>The cadence of the weapon is a maximum of 400 shots per minute, with a maximum range of 1,500 metres. The entire system - without ammunition - should weigh less than 300 kilograms.<\/p>\n

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F126, rear edge of the hangar. Photo: hum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is not clear from Leonardo's press release how many LIONFISH topside systems have been ordered. Leonardo merely states that the company has been asked to equip four frigates, including two optional units. According to a model of the F126 exhibited by DAMEN Naval at SMM, the frigate will have four such small-calibre weapon systems for close and short-range engagement - two in the forward section of the ship and two on the hangar. Further details are currently not available. Note: Back in November 2022, it was announced that Rheinmetall had been commissioned to supply eight MLGs for the F126.<\/p>\n

Leonardo is therefore equipping the future frigates with two artillery weapon systems. In March 2022, the\u00a0the provision of the OTO 127\/64 LightWeight (LW) Vulcano.<\/span><\/p>\n

The F125 frigates of the Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg class are each equipped with five remote-controlled Hitrole artillery weapon systems of the same 12.7mm calibre (Highly Integrated Turret, Remotely Operated, Light Electrical). The naval weapon system developed by Oto Melara is also used in the Netherlands on the Holland-class OPV and the multi-purpose supply ship (Joint Logistic Support Ship) \"Karel Doorman\".<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Einem Kommuniqu\u00e9 des italienischen Luft-, Raumfahrt- und R\u00fcstungskonzerns Leonardo zufolge wurde das Artilleriesystem LIONFISH Top als kleinkalibrige Waffe f\u00fcr die zuk\u00fcnftige Fregattenklasse F126 der Deutschen Marine ausgew\u00e4hlt. LIONFISH Top ist diejenige Variante des 12,7mm-Waffensystems von Leonardo,\u00a0deren Gesch\u00fctzverkleidung hohen Stealth-Anspr\u00fcchen entspricht. Selbstverteidigungssystem Das ferngesteuerte Waffensystem verf\u00fcgt \u00fcber elektro-optische Zielerfassung und -verfolgung, bestehend aus einer Tageslichtkamera (Auffassung […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26387,"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":[42,486,51],"tags":[4984,1398,4668,1044,4983,4985,3479],"class_list":["post-26378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-headlines","category-streitkraefte-news","tag-artilleriesystem","tag-deutschen-marine","tag-fregatte-f126","tag-leonardo","tag-lionfish","tag-selbstverteidigungssystem","tag-waffe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26378","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=26378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49935,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26378\/revisions\/49935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}