@Neptune - How do you guys fare against other Navies in the region ? Especially Greece !
Whats exactly the difference between the 23 Fast-Attack-Crafts, the 20 Large Patrol Boats and the 8 Corvettes you've got ? I mean if they're between an FAC and a Corvette - Why is there a need for such a vessel ? Can't a small flotilla of FACs deputed to a Corvette do the patrol for a particular area ?
And Admiral Armstrong could kick your Circassian butt any day of the week were we to meet in a Naval battle !
Well, Russian Black Sea Fleet is no near the assets of Northern Sea Area Command. As for the Greek, they don't have a massive navy like ours. So they are busy with being obligated, to defend thousands of islands which decreases the operational capabilities whereas TNF; submarines have been sneaking into near the mainland Greece for gathering Intelligence mostly targeting HN and the naval installations. They harasse our fisherman but end up with the interception of MRTP boats of the Coast Guard or if they're lucky, a Type 209/1400 surfaces near them an officers hoist Turkish flag. Once, a MRTP-22SAT has showed up with no markings since it's a SAT (Navy SOF) delivery boat. Then they run away. As you can see, Black Sea is under Russian&Turkish dominance. Aegean, well it's a love&hatred story. It's all about trollings of two navies.
The Problem is in the Mediterranean. Since half the Mediterranean is NATO soils, whenever an allied vessel passes by, they do a formal PASSEX then go away. Current threat classification does not consider any navy as hostile, but for the naval vessels of Greece and Egypt, it is applied to proceed with caution to the integrated combat management network of the Fleets.
To answer your question, no. Turkey being 3/4 of itself surrounded by the seas and thousands of islands that are disputed. Many of FACs/Patrol Boats are needed with several different roles. Some are ASuW aimed with limited CIWS supported AAW capabilities, some are ASW aimed. Or the corvettes with a combination of all with ASW/Patrol role. Also having a huge fleet means there are likely other vessels of yours deployed near by you if the case is Eastern Mediterranean, Aegean or the Black Sea.
I have listed the classes of ships you've mentioned in your question; maybe it's better understandable by specs.
The Corvettes:
Ada-class (2 in service, 12 planned) Specifications:
Burak-class (6 in service) Specifications:
1 x Air/Surface DRBV 51A sentry radar
1 x DRBC 32E fire control radar
1 x DECCA 1226 navigation radar
1 x DUBA 25 hull sonar
1 x ARBR 16 radar interceptor
2 x Dagaie decoy launchers
1 x SLQ-25 Nixie counter-measure system
2 x
Exocet MM38 missiles
1 ×
100 mm CADAM turret with Najir fire control system
2 ×
20 mm F2
4 × 12.7 mm
machine guns
4 x L5 type
torpedoes
1 × 375 mm 6-barrel ASW rocket launcher
Patrol Boats:
There are many of em. But the main class is the Tuzla-class:
25 kW X-Band Navigation Radar with ARPA/W(ECDIS) capability;
Electro optical low-weight, multi-purpose, thermal imaging sensor; Optical Gyro compass with INS capability,
Simrad SP92 Mk II hull-mounted low frequency Sonar
1 x 40mm Oto Melara Twin compact gun,
2 x Aselsan 12.7mm Stabilized Machine Gun with IR imaging and remote control capability (STAMP)
1(2) x Roketsan ASW rocket launcher, 6 rockets
4 x Depth Charges
The FACs:
Kılıç I/II-class (9 in service) Specifications:
Kartal-class (4 in service) Specifications:
Doğan-class (4 in service)
Rüzgar-class (4 in service)
Yıldız-class (2 in service)
Specifications:
@Armstrong look
Greek naval vessel harassing Turkish fishermen in international waters as seen. At the righ stern side of the Greek vessel, there we have a TNF submarine sub-surfaced.
And that's just a couple minutes later after the submarines appear on the surface, Greek fellas maneuver back to Greek boundaries.
