| Builders: Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW), Kiel, Germany Rheinstahl (later Thyssen) Nordseewerke, Emden, Germany Displacement: 450 tonnes surfaced, 500 tonnes submerged Length: 48,49 meters (159 feet 1 inch) Beam: 4,58 m (15 ft) Draft: 4,3 m (14 ft 1 in) Depth: 200+ meters (test depth) Crew: 23-27 Speed: 17 knots (31 km/h) submerged, 10 knots (19 km/h) surfaced Range: 4500 nautical miles (8300 km, or 5200 miles) at 6 knots (11 km/h) surfaced 228 NM (422 km) at 4 knots (7,4 km/h) submerged Propulsion: 2 x MTU 12V493 4-stroke diesel-engines (2 x 600 hp) each coupled with an Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) generator 1 x Siemens-Schuckert-Werke electric motor (1800 hp) driving a single propeller (5 blades - 206 / 7 blades - 206A) Armament: 8 x 21-inches / 533 mm torpedo tubes for DM2A1 Seeaal (206) or DM2A3 Seehecht (206A) heavy weight torpedoes up to 24 mines can be carrierd externally Systems: STN Atlas CSU 83 (DBQS-21) sonar Thomson-CSF DUUX 2 passive rangefinder sonar Safare VELOX sonar intercept EDO-900 active mine avoidance sonar Thomson-CSF Calypso II surveillance and navigation radar Thomson-CSF DR-2000U ESM system - Thorn-EMI SARIE |