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MUAVENET frigates (1971-1973/1993-1994)

Muavenet 2000

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Muavenet (ex-Capodanno) F250   Avondale, Westwego, USA 25.2.1972 21.10.1972 17.11.1973 // 30.7.1993 stricken 2007
Adatepe (ex-Fanning) F251   Todd, San Pedro, USA 7.12.1968 24.1.1970 23.7.1971 // 28.8.1993 stricken 11.2000
Kocatepe (ex-Reasoner) F252   Lockheed, Seattle, USA 6.1.1969 1.8.1970 31.7.1971 // 28.8.1993 stricken 2002
Zafer (ex-Thomas C. Hart) F253   Avondale, Westwego, USA 8.10.1971 12.8.1972 28.7.1973 // 30.8.1993 stricken 2013
Trakya (ex-McCandless) F254   Avondale, Westwego, USA 4.6.1970 20.3.1971 18.3.1972 // 5.6.1994 stricken 2003
Karadeniz (ex-Donald B. Beary) F255   Avondale, Westwego, USA 24.7.1970 22.5.1971 22.7.1972 // 20.5.1994 stricken 2006
Ege (ex-Ainsworth) F256   Avondale, Westwego, USA 11.6.1971 15.4.1972 31.3.1973 // 27.5.1994 stricken 2005
Akdeniz (ex-Bowen) F257   Avondale, Westwego, USA 11.7.1969 2.5.1970 22.5.1971 // 3.6.1994 stricken 2001

 

Displacement standard, t

3130

Displacement full, t

4260

Length, m

126.5 wl 134.0 oa

Breadth, m

14.3

Draught, m

4.77 hull 7.83 over sonar

No of shafts

1

Machinery

F250, 251, 253-257: 1 set Westinghouse geared steam turbines, 2 Combustion Engineering boilers

F252: 1 set Westinghouse geared steam turbines , 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers

Power, h. p.

35000

Max speed, kts

27

Fuel, t

oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 4500(20)

Armament

1 x 8 Harpoon SSM / ASROC Mk 116 ASuR (4 RGM-84A, 12 RUR-5), 1 x 1 - 127/54 Mk 42, 1 x 6 - 20/76 Mk 15 Phalanx, 4 - 324 Mk 32 TT (24), 1 helicopter (AB-212)

Electronic equipment

LN-66, SPS-10F, SPS-40D, SPG-53D/F, Mk 90 radars, SQS-26CX sonar, SLQ-32(v)2 ECM suite, 2x Mk 36 SRBOC decoy RL, T-Mk 6 Farfare torpedo decoy

Complement

224

Project history: Former USN Knox class frigates.

Modernizations: late 1990s, all: - LN-66 radar; + Decca TM1226 radar

Naval service: None.

Zafer 2002

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