The Type 143A Gepard class is Germany's last class of missile bearing fast attack craft () and the only one still in service with the German Navy since 1990. It is an evolution of the Albatros-class fast attack craft, 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 Braunschweig-class corvettes 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.