Gepard-class fast attack craft

The Type 143A Gepard class is Germany's last class of missile bearing fast attack craft (Schnellboot) and the only one still in service with the German Navy since 1990.

It is an evolution of the, the main difference is the replacement of the second 76mm-gun by the RAM system. It is planned that Gepard class vessels will gradually be supplemented by s and to be replaced by a new class of corvettes in the 2020s.

The ships in class are named after small, predatory animals: cheetah, puma, stoat, mink, sable, ferret, badger, ocelot, weasel and hyena.

List of ships
In 2012, Germany delivered two of its decommissioned Gepard class FACs, S74 Nerz and S77 Dachs to the Ghana Navy.