TCG Fatih
Barbaros-class frigate of the Turkish Navy
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TCG Fatih (F 242) is a Yavuz-class frigate of the Turkish Navy.
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TCG Fatih on 2 June 2014 | |
| History | |
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| Name | Fatih |
| Namesake | Mehmed the Conqueror |
| Builder | Gölcük Naval Shipyard, Kocaeli, Turkey |
| Launched | 24 April 1987[1] |
| Commissioned | 12 October 1988[1] |
| Identification | Pennant number: F 242 |
| Status | Active |
| General characteristics | |
| 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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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 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 and commissioned on 12 October 1988.[1]
On 25 August 2020, the Italian destroyer Luigi Durand de la Penne conducted a maritime exercise in the Eastern Mediterranean with TCG Fatih.[2]
