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File:Turkish Navy frigate TCG Fatih (F-242), Augusta Bay, June 2, 2014.jpg TCG Fatih on 2 June 2014 | |
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| Name: | Fatih |
| Namesake: | Fatih |
| Builder: | Gölcük, Kocaeli |
| Launched: | 24 April 1987 |
| Commissioned: | 22 July 1988 |
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| Status: | Active |
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| Class & type: | Yavuz-class frigate |
| Displacement: | 3,030 tons full load |
| Length: | 110.50 m (362.53 ft) |
| Beam: | 13.25 m (43.47 ft) |
| Draught: | 3.94 m (12.93 ft) |
| Installed power: | 4 MTU 20V 1163 diesel-engines, 30,000 hp (22,000 kW) CODAD |
| Propulsion: | 2 shaft, controllable pitch propellers |
| Speed: | 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph) |
| Range: | 4,000 nautical miles (7,000 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h) |
| Complement: | 180 (29 officers, 151 enlisted) |
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| Electronic warfare & decoys: | ARES-2NC ESM, Mk 36 decoy |
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TCG Fatih (F-242) is a Yavuz-class frigate of the Turkish Navy.
Development and design[]
Yavuz-class frigates were designed in Germany and are part of the MEKO family of modular warships; in this case the MEKO 200 design. An order for ships was signed by the Turkish government in April 1983 for four MEKO frigates. Two ships were built in Germany and two in Turkey with German assistance. They are similar in design to the larger Barbaros-class frigates of the Turkish Navy, which are improved versions of the Yavuz-class frigate.
The Turkish Navy has an ongoing limited modernization project for an Electronic Warfare Suite. The intent is to upgrade the ships with locally produced the ECM, ECCM systems, active decoys, LWRs, IRST and the necessary user interface systems.
Construction and career[]
Fatih was launched on 24 April 1987 by Gölcük Naval Shipyard in Kocaeli and commissioned on 22 July 1988.[1]
On 25 August 2020, Italian destroyer Luigi Durand De La Penne conducted a maritime exercise in the Eastern Mediterranean with TCG Fatih.[2]
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