From ATAK to TF-2000: Century Turkish Military Shipbuilding

Turkey's Navy is going to build at least four destroyers with a TF-2000-controlled weapon, which will become the most powerful and armed naval ships in the Mediterranean after entering into operation in the 2030s. TF-2000 will include almost all Turkey technological achievements in the naval systems in the last decade, including their own vertical start system (VLS), equipped with domestic anti-aircraft (SAM) and winged missiles for lesions directed energy, including high -energy lasers (HEL).

Focus translated the article by Stein Mitzer and Yusta Yasta Yaust about the history of the Turkish military shipbuilding. These capabilities will allow TF-2000 to affect important goals at a distance of more than 1000 km with the help of winged missiles, close the territory with 64 SPRs of 150+ km and 16 anti-ship missiles with a range of 220+ km and protect friendly ships from hostile SPR.

TF-2000 can also act as a platform for unmanned systems, including up to four rocket launchers, drones, drones and unmanned submarine submarines (UUV). In addition, the TF-2000 will probably become the first Turkish Navy ship, which will deploy an electromagnetic rack şahi-209. Upon its entry, TF-2000 ships should become an integral part of Turkey's expeditional shock groups concentrated around TCG Anadolu LHD and future aircraft carriers.

TCG anadolu should be a light TCG Trakya aircraft carrier, and President Erdogan has already hinted at the construction of a larger aircraft carrier, which is being designated in cooperation with Spain. These capital ships require escorting the destroyers to protect against enemy aircraft, ships and submarines-an ideal role for TF-2000 after the introduction of these new projects by 2038.

It was in 2038 that it will be one hundred years since the Turkish Republic has lowered the first warship of domestic development. On March 23, 1938, a small mine barrier of ATak, which made history as the first warship, built by a modern Turkish Republic (it was proclaimed in October 1923 in 1922, was lowered to the naval ship in Gelkiuk in Gelkiuk, Kojael (it was proclaimed in October 1923) .

The descent "attack" took place two years after the Gölcük oil tanker was descended in 1935: he became the first civilian vessel, which was developed and built by the newly created republic. Based on a large sea tugboat, the Ministry of Defense of ATak was 44 meters long, 8 meters wide and a watertone of about 500 tons. Its only 1025 hp diesel engine. allowed to develop a maximum speed of 13 nodes. Weapons consisted of 40 sea mines laid on the back of the deck.

At some point after commissioning on the front deck, a sea gun appeared. Most of his service, ATAK was worn by a camouflage, which was probably applied during World War II. Turkey managed to preserve neutrality throughout the Second World War, declaring war on Germany and Japan only in February 1945. Although the design "attack" is not something special in itself, it testified to the ambitions of a country that sought to meet its defensive needs independently.

At about the same time, when Atak first descended on the water, Turkish aircraft Air Buddowner Nuri Demirag began to develop his revolutionary nu. d. 40 revolutionary fighter, which, unfortunately, did not see the world. Any Turkish novice industry would have to deal with the government, which was not ready to provide the necessary ecosystem for the prosperity and survival of the defense industry. In 1942, five motor torpedo boats (MTBs) of the Bora class were built in Britain.

In addition, in the 1940s and 1950s, no naval construction was conducted in Turkey. During this period, the Turkish fleet received many ships from the United States, which, in fact, condemned any prospects for local military shipbuilding for the next decades. With all that, the mine barrier continued to serve, having survived his successors in the form of two courts of the class Sivrichisar of the British structure, and was written off only in 1961.

Only in the late 1960s did Turkey begin to build warships, including a dozen AB-25 patrol boats. The most ambitious project was the construction of two Berk frigates, started in 1967. Created on the basis of Cloud Jones Ships by the US Navy with minor improvements, these frigates were the first large warships built in Turkey since the 1910s! Although their construction proved the expediency of local military shipbuilding, there were no further orders for the construction of ships.

Only in the middle and late 2000s did the Turkish naval industry develop the next great project-Milgem, which today allowed to design and build several classes of corvettes and frigates. As the last iteration of the Milgem Project, TF-2000 will be functionally similar to the American destroyers of the Arleigh Burke class.

TF-2000 will equip 127-mm main guns of their own production, 16 atmaca with a range of 220 km, 64 VLS cells for SIPER anti-aircraft missiles with a range of 150+ km (except for other zur , two 35mm Gökdeniz Ciws Guns, two MetEksan Nazar high-energy lasers, false targets, two combat modules for anti-tank controlled UMTAS (ATGM) and four distance combat modules.

The class will be equipped with a large complex of radars and Turkish production sensors to identify hostile goals and miss rockets on them. Another resemblance to the ARleigh Burke destroyers is the availability of full-fledged rooms for two helicopters of the protical struggle (PCB) S-70B Seahawk. The journey for a thousand miles begins with one step. Although Turkey quickly took its first step in the late 1930s, the next decades were marked by the decline of the country's defense industry.

Over the past 20 years, the Turkish government has wrapped up this trend with amazing speed, rapidly moving to self-sufficiency in the naval sphere. It will take very little time, and the Turkish defense industry will be able to produce virtually all types of ships together with appropriate weapons and equipment, such as radars and sensors. After the TF-2000 enactment will be evidence of the country's transition to self-sufficiency and a worthy gift to the centenary of the ATAK mine barrier.