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BARBAROS frigates (1995-2000)

Barbaros 2010

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Barbaros F244   Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, Germany 18.3.1993 29.9.1993 18.3.1995 in service (2019)
Oruçreis F245   Gölçuk NSY, Kocaeli, Izmir 15.9.1993 28.7.1994 10.5.1996 in service (2019)
Salihreis F246   Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, Germany 24.7.1995 26.9.1997 17.12.1998 in service (2019)
Kemalreis F247   Gölçuk NSY, Kocaeli, Izmir 3.12.1996 24.7.1998 8.6.2000 in service (2019)

 

Displacement standard, t

F244, 245: 3100

F246, 247: 3150

Displacement full, t

F244, 245: 3350

F246, 247: 3400

Length, m

F244, 245: 107.2 pp 116.7 oa

F246, 247: 108.2 pp 117.7 oa

Breadth, m

13.8 wl 14.8 oa

Draught, m

4.25 hull 6.12 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

CODOG: 2 General Electric LM-2500 gas turbines / 2 MTU 16V1163 TB83 diesels

Power, h. p.

60000 / 11800

Max speed, kts

32

Fuel, t

diesel / gas turbine oil 300

Endurance, nm(kts)

4100(18)

Armament

F244, 245: 2 x 4 Harpoon SSM (8 RGM-84C), 1 x 8 Sea Sparrow SAM (24 RIM-7M), 1 x 1 - 127/54 Mk 45 Mod.2A, 3 x 4 - 25/92 Sea Zenith GM25-52, 2 x 1 - 12.7/90, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 Mod.5 TT (Mk 46 Mod.5), 1 helicopter (AB-212)

F246, 247: 2 x 4 Harpoon SSM (8 RGM-84C), 1 x 16 Sea Sparrow SAM (VLS, 16 Aspide), 1 x 1 - 127/54 Mk 45 Mod.2A, 3 x 4 - 25/92 Sea Zenith GM25-52, 2 x 1 - 12.7/90, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 Mod.5 TT (Mk 46 Mod.5), 1 helicopter (SH-60B)

Electronic equipment

F244, 245: Decca 2136, AWS-9, Dolphin AWS-6, WM-25, STIR-1.8, TMX, 2x TMK radars, Albis e/o system, SQS-56 sonar, Cutlass B1, Scorpion B ECM suites, 4x Mk 36 SRBOC decoy RL, SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo decoy, TACTICOS-STACOS FD CCS

F246, 247: Decca 2136, AWS-9, Dolphin AWS-6, WM-25, 2x STIR-1.8, 2x TMK radars, Albis e/o system, SQS-56 sonar, Cutlass B1, Scorpion B ECM suites, 4x Mk 36 SRBOC decoy RL, SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo decoy, TACTICOS-STACOS FD CCS

Complement

200

Project history: First two (MEKO 200TN Track IIA) of planned four ordered in 1990, contract of the second pair of the MEKO 200TN Track IIB design was signed in 1994. The German subsidy for the construction of the second pair was suspended from March to September 1995 because of Turkey's intervention against Kurdish elements in northern Iraq. Two more were on option, to be built one each in Turkey and Germany, but they were canceled in October 1999.

Modernizations: 2012-2014, Barbaros, Salihreis, Kemalreis: - Decca 2136, AWS-9 radars; + 20V90, SMART-S Mk 2 radars

Naval service: No significant events.

Kemalreis 2007

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