Turkey’s STM offers FAC-55 missile boat to Pakistan

[Rashid Mahmood]

Milgem II is a Corvette right?

Eight of the twelve MİLGEM project warships are classified as the Ada-class corvette, while four of them will be equipped with additional weapon systems and will be classified as the TF-100-class frigate.

Milgem II will slightly bigger and will be classified as a FFG.

 

[mrrehan]

The STM FAC-55.
Daily News
Nov 27, 2016

With the Pakistan Navy seeking four to six new fast attack craft (FAC) missile boats, the Turkish shipbuilder Savunma Teknolojileri Mühendislik ve Ticaret A.Ş. (STM) is offering its newly unveiled FAC-55.

The Turkish news outlet Deniz Haber Ajansi reports that the STM FAC-55 was showcased in Karachi during the International Defence Exhibition and Seminar (IDEAS), and had attracted interest from Pakistan and a few other countries.

With a top speed of 55 knots (102 km/h), STM designed the FAC-55 to exhibit several capabilities typically found in larger corvettes, such as STM’s Ada-class. For example, the FAC-55 appears to be armed with at least four (potentially eight) anti-ship missiles (AShM) and Thales SMART-S Mk2 radar.

STM added that it is in touch with the Pakistan Navy on the FAC-55 and the MILGEM. At IDEAS, STM said that it hopes to finalize a MILGEM order with Pakistan in 2017.

Notes & Comments:

Pakistan is seeking four to six FACs to protect the Gwadar deep-sea port. In addition to policing, the FACs will also be armed with AShMs, which will allow the Navy to use them as part of its anti-access and area denial (A2/AD) efforts in time of war.

As noted earlier, the selection could comprise of ships emphasized for speed, endurance, or both.

Seeing that STM is showcasing the FAC-55 with the SMART-S Mk2 radar, which can provide surveillance coverage of up to 250 km, it appears that the FAC is being positioned as something analogous to the Finnish Hamina-class FAC. The 250-ton Hamina-class FAC is capable of anti-ship warfare (AShW) as well as short-range air defence, which is done via the Denel Umkhonto-IR surface-to-air missile (SAM).

Granted, the FAC-55 design does not include a SAM solution, but the notion of configuring it with one or at least a point-defence missile system (PDMS) such as the Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) or its Chinese analogue the FL-3000N is plausible. On the other hand, or in tandem, one could potentially configure the ship with electronic support measures equipment, which can be used to monitor nearby radar activity. Alternatively, the end-user could opt for a much less complex (and less costly) configuration, one focused on patrolling littoral waters and, in time of war, deploy AShMs.

In any case, the FAC-55 platform has considerable potential in terms of capability. In terms of the hull in of itself, the FAC-55 benefits from retractable AShM-launchers, which helps the FAC-55 maintain a smaller radar cross-section (RCS). Its superstructure appears to comprise of composite materials, helping with RCS reduction. The FAC-55’s displacement is 535-tons (C4Defense).

http://quwa.org/2016/11/27/turkeys-stm-offers-fac-55-missile-boat-to-pakistan/

For CPEC security we need to have them.

 

[Khafee]

Eight of the twelve MİLGEM project warships are classified as the Ada-class corvette, while four of them will be equipped with additional weapon systems and will be classified as the TF-100-class frigate.

Milgem II will slightly bigger and will be classified as a FFG.

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Any idea as to how many?

 

[mrrehan]

Eight of the twelve MİLGEM project warships are classified as the Ada-class corvette, while four of them will be equipped with additional weapon systems and will be classified as the TF-100-class frigate.

Milgem II will slightly bigger and will be classified as a FFG.

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Sir if I may ask. in case of war with India can we block their economic trade?

 

[Tsar Bomba]

Sir if I may ask. in case of war with India can we block their economic trade?

No but can deny the same to India.

 

[revojam]

Eight of the twelve MİLGEM project warships are classified as the Ada-class corvette, while four of them will be equipped with additional weapon systems and will be classified as the TF-100-class frigate.

Milgem II will slightly bigger and will be classified as a FFG.

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TF-100 is no more its called I-class(Istanbul-class) now.

 

[Rashid Mahmood]

Sir if I may ask. in case of war with India can we block their economic trade?

Have you seen the map of india..?
Just look at their coastline and number of ports.

Any idea as to how many?

Depends on the deal.
If it does happen, probably 4 with an option of 2 more.

 

[The SC]

Any idea as to how many?

There is a need for 6 FAC..

 

[mrrehan]

Have you seen the map of india..?
Just look at their coastline and number of ports.

Sir I was asking for the area I did circle

 

[Rashid Mahmood]

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Sir I was asking for the area I did circle

India does not only trade from this route.
and certainly during war, this route will not be used.

 

[Ghazwa e Hind]

We need a bigger and stronger navy for a strong diplomacy. Don't leave any loophole in the guarding strategy of our EEZ.

 

[mrrehan]

India does not only trade from this route.
and certainly during war, this route will not be used.

Thank you sir

 

[Khafee]

There is a need for 6 FAC..

Well FAC and FFG are two different things.

6 FFG's would be a good addition.

As to FAC's - 3 Azmat class + 6 = 9
A number on the lower side, it should be atleast 20 ~ 24. Inducted at a rate of 4 to 6 per annum.

Wring the necks of bloody corrupt politicians, and watch money flow like water.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

CPEC

• 10 Type 054 Frigates (Lease for CPEC contract) (Alot of people like this)
  
• 6 Corvettes from Turkey (Negotiating)
  
• 20 FAC-55 (Negotiating)

Karachi Trade Zone (Linked to CPEC)

• 4 F22P frigate
• 4 Tariq Class
• 1 OHP
  
• 20 Stealth Missile Boat (Which we are already inducting)

This type of setup would be a minimal deterrance

 

[Basel]

Milgem II will probably be acquired.

But there are rumors that something along with MILIGEM may also be acquired.

Eight of the twelve MİLGEM project warships are classified as the Ada-class corvette, while four of them will be equipped with additional weapon systems and will be classified as the TF-100-class frigate.

Milgem II will slightly bigger and will be classified as a FFG.

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Awesome if materialized, what configuration they may come with?