Its a FAC but it doesnt fullfill the RfP issues for Turkish FAC project . Its alluminum hull, which is planning hull, driven by 2 or 4 (or turbine) engines by 3 water jet , 2 is maneuvering,one is boosting.
This design is completed 3 years ago , it even has options of 2 quadruple SSM , stringer AA missile, 2 Ciws ,but unfortunately it lacks in sensors , counters. Also it was a modular design to be used as patrol , coast guard, fast intervention , FAC.
This is design is quite good for deploying commandos, anti-piracy operations, patrolling .and engagement. Its aliminum hull is 40 percent lighter than the same designed steel hull.
Tubitak offered a major economical support for this vessel's prototype with technical assistance. It was planned to be 1st aliminum structure Fast vessel of turkey ,unfortunately RMK suspended this project because of pressure from Government during Gezi parkı protests ,and the engineer designed it have been to somewhere else than RMK. (so far i heard he got offers from Russia ship design bureu ,which designs russian warships, and Korea).
To brief,this is old design which is totally designed indegenously , with a lower RCS compared to its rivals with same material. But this is not RMK's offer for FAC project. Its just R&D conducted by RMK years ago.
@xxxKULxxx , i head about sonar directly from a staff of Aselsan. They said " We need a test ship ,that we can test our equipments, such as attack and defence torpedoes, decoys , and Sonar, which is tower . This is why we need 20+(22 ) knots of speed criteria, to deploy and operate and take the system back to ship at that speed " . Further, they want to involve with commercial ship sector for radars, electronics . So " we need a civilian to ship our equipment, that we can cut, weld something, re-build as we want to, also prove ability of application of those equipments on a civilian vessel, unlike we have done till now, by conducting tests on the naval vessels, which is building. We want to gain freedoom for test and qualification ".
Well this is enough
There will be also one DİMDEG .