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What's wrong with ESSM?
ESSM designed to counter even supersonic anti ship missile .... thats great
but ESSM can not provide even local area defense capability .... because of ESSM has flight altitude of 5 km
Turkish Navy 8 OHP class Frigates armed with SM-1 SAM which has flight altitude of 20 km to engage on Fighter Jets and Aircrafts for local area defense capability
but Turkish Navy needs wide area defense capability ... so Turkish Navy needs SAM such as ASTER-30 ( 120km range and 20km altitude ) for wide area defense capability
Turkey develops SIPER air defense missile ( 90-120km range and 20 km altitude )
also Turkey develops HISAR-NOKTA air defense missile ( 50km range and 15+ km altitude )
I class Frigate would be great , if armed with 8 cells MK-41 VLS for 32 x ESSM or HISAR-NOKTA for Ship point and local area defence ... and 16 cells MK-41 VLS for 16 SIPER SAMs for wide area defence ( total of 24 cells VLS )
İf Turkish Navy had wide area defence capability with SM-2 or ASTER-30 , then we would protect our soldiers in Idlib/Syria against Russia/Syrian Regime air strikes
and Turkish Navy OHP class Frigates protect GNA in Tripoli/Libya against air strikes but SM-1 SAM has range of only 35km km
Turkish Navy will have wide area defence capability with TF-2000 class Destroyer by 2027
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