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Zafer 2002

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Muavenet (ex-Capodanno)	F250		Avondale, Westwego, USA	25.2.1972	21.10.1972	17.11.1973 // 30.7.1993	stricken 2007
Adatepe (ex-Fanning)	F251		Todd, San Pedro, USA	7.12.1968	24.1.1970	23.7.1971 // 28.8.1993	stricken 11.2000
Kocatepe (ex-Reasoner)	F252		Lockheed, Seattle, USA	6.1.1969	1.8.1970	31.7.1971 // 28.8.1993	stricken 2002
Zafer (ex-Thomas C. Hart)	F253		Avondale, Westwego, USA	8.10.1971	12.8.1972	28.7.1973 // 30.8.1993	stricken 2013
Trakya (ex-McCandless)	F254		Avondale, Westwego, USA	4.6.1970	20.3.1971	18.3.1972 // 5.6.1994	stricken 2003
Karadeniz (ex-Donald B. Beary)	F255		Avondale, Westwego, USA	24.7.1970	22.5.1971	22.7.1972 // 20.5.1994	stricken 2006
Ege (ex-Ainsworth)	F256		Avondale, Westwego, USA	11.6.1971	15.4.1972	31.3.1973 // 27.5.1994	stricken 2005
Akdeniz (ex-Bowen)	F257		Avondale, Westwego, USA	11.7.1969	2.5.1970	22.5.1971 // 3.6.1994	stricken 2001

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	3130
Displacement full, t	4260
Length, m	126.5 wl 134.0 oa
Breadth, m	14.3
Draught, m	4.77 hull 7.83 over sonar
No of shafts	1
Machinery	F250, 251, 253-257: 1 set Westinghouse geared steam turbines, 2 Combustion Engineering boilers F252: 1 set Westinghouse geared steam turbines, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	35000
Max speed, kts	27
Fuel, t	oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	4500(20)
Armament	1 x 8 Harpoon SSM / ASROC Mk 116 ASuR (4 RGM-84A, 12 RUR-5), 1 x 1 - 127/54 Mk 42, 1 x 6 - 20/76 Mk 15 Phalanx, 4 - 324 Mk 32 TT (24), 1 helicopter (AB-212)
Electronic equipment	LN-66, SPS-10F, SPS-40D, SPG-53D/F, Mk 90 radars, SQS-26CX sonar, SLQ-32(v)2 ECM suite, 2x Mk 36 SRBOC decoy RL, T-Mk 6 Farfare torpedo decoy
Complement	224

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Project history

Former USN Knox class frigates.

Modernizations

late 1990s, all: - LN-66 radar; + Decca TM1226 radar

Naval service

None.