check dsca.mil you will see no arms sale for a long time
Those could have been purchased long time ago , and in nearby time they have been installed on LSTs and probably purchased for TCG Anadolu either. ( In case of Gökdeniz is not coming by)
So they laid the keel and started the build without the design was finalised?
So what is the latest any photos? Has the work just stopped?
National security should not be effected by politics
Very bad news
It was exactly what has been dont back in years. Design was still evolving.
For İ-class there has been improvizations, the hull form has changed ,bulbous bow form has been changed, there was plans for adapting retractable azimuth truster (as in Independent class LCS) , For maneuvering at ports and also for improving maximum speed and maneauverability while sailing. Accomodations has been slightly changed, there is vls and equipments of that, hull has gone through changes.
Its note exactly expanded milgem but there was changes,it all takes time and meanwhile there was 15 july coup attempt, people has been fired from naval office , some has resigned on their own, a shitty civilian shipyard manager has been assigned to further mess with plans, tried to prove his proficiency by emposing his ego on soldiers ( a man with zero knowledge on production or planning of the ships, an amateur ship-owner like broker he was )
He is the one who asked to publish for 1-1 scale renders of milgems and all platforms for catalogues which navy was hesitant about for years to do so. (who really does it anyway)
All these has caused delays and currently i-class is re-accelarating.
I used to claim,someone in there has huge desires to lend TF-2000 into someone's hand (Possibly to STM with joint operation of Navantia) ,and deliver it to a private company (not hard to guess whom,check who has built TCG Ufuk and why them)
I worry even I-Class could be given to someone else for design (well like BMCs case they would re-evaluate design and claim its their own ) and production in private shipyards (which all of them, except Adik, RMK and Sedef floats around in 80s technologies).
