Just What the Middle East Needs: Turkey’s Getting an Aircraft Carrier

[Hellfire]

they can do something about STOVL, the product will mature with time.

Impressed with your input

 

[Gentelman]

I can see Pakistan having its fruits and PN having some real support from international waters from a trusted friend

 

[Sipahi]

Impressed with your input

The formal NATO definition (since 1991) is:
A Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing aircraft is a fixed-wing aircraft capable of clearing a 15 m (50 ft) obstacle within 450 m (1,500 ft) of commencing take-off run, and capable of landing vertically

NASA uses the abbreviation SSTOVL for Supersonic Short Take-Off / Vertical Landing,and as of 2012, the X-35B/F-35B are the only aircraft to conform with this combination within one flight.

If they are upto for Aircraft carrier and since they are NATO member and close ally of Americans the technology is not unreachable for them.

 

[Akasa]

Looks more to be a landing helicopter assault (LHA) vessel than a true CATOBAR/STOBAR carrier. An interesting feature is its 30 hospital beds; is this a normal quantity on a major military vessel like this or does the Anatolia seem to have a more pronounced medical role?

 

[Abdullah S.]

Great step by Turkey. I hope they end up with more than a couple LHDs in the end, one each for Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Ocean. Would be lovely to see the Turkish LHD pay a farewell visit to Karachi or Gwadar port some day.

Proud to have a brother like Turkey.

 

[xenon54 out]

Looks more to be a landing helicopter assault (LHA) vessel than a true CATOBAR/STOBAR carrier. An interesting feature is its 30 hospital beds; is this a normal quantity on a major military vessel like this or does the Anatolia seem to have a more pronounced medical role?

30 beds for 1400 crew members isnt much though, imagine a fire accident happens somewhere on the ship for exsample, 30 beds might even be not enough.

 

[HAIDER]

F35 based VTOL aircraft. Good,effective,simple and low cost.

 

[The Sandman]

All the best

 

[PaklovesTurkiye]

Great step by Turkey. I hope they end up with more than a couple LHDs in the end, one each for Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Ocean. Would be lovely to see the Turkish LHD pay a farewell visit to Karachi or Gwadar port some day.

Proud to have a brother like Turkey.

How did you bring/paste turkish flag? I found no option over here of Turkish flag

 

[SSGcommandoPAK]

Below article has fundamental flaws and wrong informations....still it's a good article to see the reaction of the foreigners to Turkey's rising military power.

ISTANBUL — Turkey is getting ready to widen the reach of its military considerably by building a multipurpose aircraft carrier with “trans-continental” capabilities.

The 225-meter ship dubbed the Anadolu (or Anatolia), set to enter service in 2021, is designed to take fighter aircraft, attack helicopters, tanks, troops, and landing vessels to areas around the Mediterranean and as far as the Atlantic and the Indian Oceans, officials say. While some analysts say Turkey needs a carrier like this, some regard the project as an expensive expression of prestige and grandeur that far exceeds the country’s limits.

The move is a sign of NATO member Turkey’s determination to become a leading power in the Middle East and beyond, an ambition that has been ruffling feathers. In a region shaken by the Syrian war, a heated row between Turkey and naval superpower Russia over the downing of a fighter jet and an increased naval presence by rival Iran to the southeast have heightened tensions even more.

Behlul Ozkan, an expert on Turkish foreign policy at Istanbul’s Marmara University, said the program to build the Anadolu was in line with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s idea of Turkey’s role in the world. “He really thinks Turkey can be an oceanic power,” Ozkan told The Daily Beast, adding that Davutoglu’s vision might be “beyond Turkey’s capabilities.” For example, the government has also set a goal for Turkey to become one of the world’s 10 biggest economies by 2023, a target that many think is hopelessly optimistic.

Ankara’s naval plans could raise the stakes in its troubled neighborhood, where Turkey has been at odds with countries like Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Egypt. That’s in addition to the conflict on Cyprus and unresolved territorial disputes in the waters of the Aegean with neighbor and NATO partner Greece.

Turkey already has a highly modern military, with more than 600,000 soldiers who form the second-largest force in NATO, with the U.S. as the biggest partner.


As a flagship of the Turkish navy, the 28,000-ton Anadolu, with a capacity of as many as 1,400 crew and troops, would be a demonstration “of the strength reached by our country’s defense industry,” Orkun Kalkavan, a manager at the Sedef Wharf in Istanbul, where the vessel is being built, told the Milliyet daily this week. The contract to build the ship was signed last year, with the Spanish company Navantia as a technological partner. Kalkavan said the Anadolu, expected to cost more than $1 billion, would be equipped for “trans-continental tasks.”

Analysts describe the carrier as a landing platform dock, or an LPD, which is a warship used to carry troops to flashpoints and send them ashore with the help of on-board landing vessels, or a landing helicopter dock (LHD). The vessel will come with its own small fleet of F-35 fighter jets and helicopters, a hospital with at least 30 beds, and room for landing boats and other smaller crafts as well as for 13 battle tanks.

Devrim Yaylali, an expert on the Turkish navy who writes a blog on naval matters, said planning for the ship started as far back as 2006. “Large amphibious ships are the only real multipurpose ships any navy can possess and are the naval equivalent of Swiss Army knives,” Yaylali emailed in response to questions by The Daily Beast. Ships like the Anadolu could be used for force projection—“the most obvious use.” The ship could be deployed as a “mother ship for small boat operations and helicopters,” he added.

With these new features, Turkey’s military power would grow dramatically. But the Anadolu could also help deliver humanitarian aid during a crisis or after a disaster and could be used for the “evacuation of combatants and non-combatants,” Yaylali wrote, adding that the “Turkish navy really needs these capabilities.”

He pointed to an incident in 2011, when Turkey evacuated more than 23,000 civilians from Libya and needed many commercial planes to do it. With a ship like the Anadolu, the operation would have been much quicker and easier, he wrote.

The combination of military and civilian uses could pay off for Ankara in the future, other analysts agree.

“Maybe the ship could be deployed in NATO operations there because action by Turkey as a Muslim country would be easier to justify.”
“Capabilities offered by the LPD will make it an important instrument of foreign policy that will accentuate Turkey’s soft power beyond its military prowess,” Metin Gurcan, an independent security analyst and columnist for Al-Monitor, told The Daily Beast.

Marmara’s Ozkan said one other possible use for the Anadolu could lie in deployments in crisis spots around the Middle East where Turkey’s partners in Europe and the U.S. were reluctant to intervene themselves because of anti-Western sentiments.

“Maybe the ship could be deployed in NATO operations there because action by Turkey as a Muslim country would be easier to justify,” he said. Given the instability around the region, Ozkan said he expects U.S. support for the project. “The Muslim world is in flames,” he said. “You never know what is going to happen.”

Just What the Middle East Needs: Turkey’s Getting an Aircraft Carrier - The Daily Beast

Its a good step the aircraft carrier will come in handy with those F-35s you will buy in the future .

 

[Abdullah S.]

How did you bring/paste turkish flag? I found no option over here of Turkish flag

I inserted it as an image from this location: http://yoursmiles.org/msmile/flag/Turkey.gif

 

[Azeri440]

F-35 is made for the Navy. Turkey will probably use F-35 for Navy and TFX for the Army.

F-35 isn't made for the Navy, its made to fill the needs of all branches simultaneously

Turkey has plans to get 100 F-35s for the Air Force and 8-16 B versions for the Navy
While more than 200 TFX for the Air Force.

 

[Vassnti]

My question is for what?

Turkey needs an aircraft carrier as much as Switzerland all its current military problems are a stones throw away why spen a fortune on some thing to attack on the other side of the world?

 

[Hellfire]

The formal NATO definition (since 1991) is:
A Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing aircraft is a fixed-wing aircraft capable of clearing a 15 m (50 ft) obstacle within 450 m (1,500 ft) of commencing take-off run, and capable of landing vertically

NASA uses the abbreviation SSTOVL for Supersonic Short Take-Off / Vertical Landing,and as of 2012, the X-35B/F-35B are the only aircraft to conform with this combination within one flight.

If they are upto for Aircraft carrier and since they are NATO member and close ally of Americans the technology is not unreachable for them.

My comment was specific to the gentleman suggesting that an airframe of conventional take off and landing can be rejigged for STOVL. He made it sound as if its just another day on a drawing board.

Thanks for shedding light on something that I am well aware of. My smart a$$ comment was meant for some other purpose.

 

[CorporateAffairs]

When it has NATO behind its tail, why does it need to spend so much money on these systems?