Tiger-class fast attack craft
The Type 148 Tiger-class fast attack craft  are a group of missile boats  built to a Franco-German design and seeing service in the German Navy. Design 
The vessels had been designed by Lürssen of Germany for Israel. They were a modification of the Jaguar-class fast attack craft but armed with the French Exocet missile. They were built mainly in France by Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie in Cherbourg (CMN) for political reasons; twelve were built and completed there, while another eight of the boats were laid down by CMH, but completed by Lürssen. Their export to Israel was also blocked for political reasons, and the boats were commissioned into the German Navy as the Tiger class. A number of other boats were built by CMN for various navies to the same design, which became known as the La Combattante II type fast attack craft. Operational history 
The boats were commissioned into the Bundesmarine in the mid-1970s, replacing the Jaguar-class vessels of the 3rd and 5th Squadrons. At first the boats did not receive names, only numbers, but these were introduced later at the insistence of the crews. The ships served for 30 years, and received major updates in 1982–84 and 1990–92. After decommissioning they were scrapped or sold to different countries. No direct replacements were procured as due to the changed operating conditions the Deutsche Marine has reduced the number of these fast attack boats drastically and procured instead a smaller number of corvettes. Ship list

See also 
 La Combattante class fast attack craft

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External links 
 Schnellboote TIGER-Klase  – Marine (Official homepage of the German Navy) 
 Warships on the Web
 S46 Fuchs 
 S51 Häher 
 S58 Pinguin 

Missile boat classes
Missile boats of Germany
Missile boats of the German Navy
Missile boats of the Chilean Navy
Missile boats of the Egyptian Navy
France–Germany military relations