Friends There is a very good opportunity for us to expect that we might be able to play on the design of class I (there were rumors that production slowed down.) What is the primary need of our navy now? Air defense frigate. So we'll wait for the first ship of this class at least 2027. But in the current conjuncture, in the absence of such a ship in 7 years, do we lose a lot? Yeah. Did you know that we can close this gap with a small cost increase and workload?
So why ?
Class I is a ship that we can call a long-range anti-surface warfare frigate. But thanks to the operational flexibility of the Vls and advanced versatile radars, a single ship can do most of the offshore / anti-air / anti-surface / anti-submarine missions sometimes. For example, Fremm, Belharra, Sigma Series and German ships developed over Meko are examples. On behalf of both the above-mentioned need and the export potential of the ship, we can take this ship to a much higher level than expected with a few minor changes.
So How?
We can achieve this with 2 changes;
1- Chafrad Çfr S band version change with Smart-S Mk2;
As we know, Smart-s is a radar that is loved by the navy but is a if we compared to the old ones, but in real terms in the near future navy environment. Çfr is a multi-functional x band radar called Çfr. The range is called 150 km, but the officials in the ideals implied that there could be more. Even if it is 150 km, we already have this radar radar If we operate in the S band (which is possible with this software)like smart-s mk2, sea fire 500 from bellhara, fremm in herakles and so on., the radar will be able to operate at much longer ranges than the range in the x band.
The reason why it can reach long ranges is that the s band needs much less power than the x band and cannot be sure of its low frequency. Likewise, the US in zumwallt AN / SPY-3 radar x band AN / SPY-4 S-band long-range planning to use AN / SPY-4 to cancel the AN / SPY-3 software has added S and x / s double band has chosen to use it. If a radar had no longer range in the S-band than the X-band, we would have called a ship like Abd Zumwaltt to install a 320 km long-range radar, which is the x-band range of AN / SPY-3, and that is unacceptable. Moreover, the Sea Fire 500 is a high-performance radar with a quadratic module area but s tape. And all of the above mentioned radars with the help of fire control radar Aster-30 and so on. long range air defense missiles.
Therefore, if we use the S band mode of Çafrad çfr and Aseksan Akr-D Block-2 120 km x band fire control radar to the İ class, we gain Long range Air Defence capability to this ship.
2-) Increasing the Vls Capacity to 32 or at least 24;
As we know, it is obvious that even a Milgemin can fit 8xvls in front of a ship that is 13 meters taller than class i, 32x vls can be placed in front of both models and drawings. We stayed but only 24x tactical vls. That would be enough. With 8 Quadpack features, we can carry 32 essm 16 and sm-2 / aster-30 / Trench / 9m96e2 whichever we want and adapt to radar. And so we get a light air defense frigate.
When it is considered in 16 atmaca capable of attacking within the ship, the ship will be Light Tf-2000. When the Tf-2000s entered the inventory, long-range air defense missiles were removed from these ships, and they were deployed for 16 vls quadpack 64 essm / g-40 and 8x vls anti-submarine weapons by placing Vl-asroc or local equivalent anti-submarine weapons. we can translate an asw / asuw escort. The unit cost of the ship increases by a maximum of 100 euros to an average of 50 million euros, but still remains a cost effective ship.
This is very, very important for us, given that at least 2 peer-to-peer buildings are provided when the first TF-2000 is included in the inventory.
