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Turkish Navy / Türk Deniz Kuvvetleri
Burak (B) class Corvette
(ex French D'Estienne
D'Orves class Corvettes / Avisos) |
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08/20 |
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F
500 TCG Bozcaada - ex FS
Commandant de Pimodan / F 787
F 501 TCG Bodrum
- ex FS Commandant Drogou / F 783
F 502 TCG Bandirma
- ex FS Quartier Maitre Anquetil / F 786
F 503 TCG Beykoz
- ex FS D’Estienne D’Orves / F 781
F 504 TCG Bartin
- ex FS Amyot D’Inville / F 782
F 505 TCG Bafra - ex FS
Second Maitre Le Bihan / F 788
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Specifications: |
Builder:
Arsenal de Lorient, Lorient, Brittany, France
Length:
80.5
meters (264 feet 1 inch)
Beam: 10.3 meters (33 ft
10 in)
Draft:
3.4 meters (11 ft 2 in)
Displacement:
1325 tons (full load)
Speed: 23 knots (43 km/h),
max.
Range:
4500 NM (8300 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement:
85 (10 Officers, 43 Petty Officers, 10 Enlisted Specialists,
22 Enlisted)
Propulsion:
2 x
SEMT Pielstick 12 PC2 V400 diesel engines (8900 kW / 12000
bhp)
2 shafts /
2 propellers
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Armament (as built):
1 x
DCN/GIAT Model 68 CADAM DP Gun (100mm/55-caliber)
with
NAJIR Fire Control System and LYNCEA Combat Management
System
2 x
MM38 Exocet SSM launcher
2 x
GIAT 20F2 20mm machine guns
4 x
single Torpedo Tubes
(324mm) for
L5 torpedoes
1 x
Bofors 375mm six-tube ASW
mortar
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Aviation:
none - platform
for VERTREP only
Systems:
1 x DRBV 51A
air/surface search 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 chaff/decoy launchers
1 x AN/SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo
countermeasure system
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Units: |
F 500 TCG Bozcaada
French Navy service:
F-787 FS Commandant de
Pimodan
Laid down: September 1, 1975
Launched: August 7, 1976
Commissioned: May 20, 1978
Decommissioned:
2000
Turkish Navy service:
tranferred to Turkey
renamed TCG Bozcaada
Commissioned:
July 25, 2001
IN SERVICE
Namesake: Bozcaada (Greek: Tenedos),
is an island of Turkey in the northeastern part of the
Aegean Sea
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F 501 TCG Bodrum
French Navy service:
F-783 FS Commandant
Drogou
Laid down: October 1, 1973
Launched: November 30, 1974
Commissioned: September 30, 1076
Decommissioned:
2000
Turkish Navy service:
tranferred to Turkey
renamed TCG Bodrum
Commissioned:
July 25, 2002
IN SERVICE
Namesake: Bodrum is a district and a
port city in Muğla Province, in the southwestern Aegean
Region of Turkey
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F 502 TCG Bandirma
French Navy service:
F-786 FS
Quartier-Maitre Anquetil
Laid down: August 1, 1975
Launched: August 7, 1976
Commissioned: February 4, 1978
Decommissioned:
2000
Turkish Navy service:
tranferred to Turkey
renamed TCG Bandirma
Commissioned:
July 25, 2002
IN SERVICE
Namesake: Bandirma is a city in
northwestern Turkey on the Sea of Marmara
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F 503 TCG Beykoz
French Navy service:
F-781 FS D’Estienne
D’Orves
Laid down: September 1, 1972
Launched: June 1, 1973
Commissioned: September 10, 1976
Decommissioned:
1999
Turkish Navy service:
tranferred to Turkey
renamed TCG Beykoz
Commissioned:
July 25, 2002
IN SERVICE
Namesake: Beykoz is a district in
Istanbul, Turkey at the northern end of the Bosphorus on the
Anatolian side
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F 504 TCG Bartin
French Navy service:
F-782 FS Amyot
D’Inville
Laid down: September 1, 1973
Launched: November 30, 1974
Commissioned: October 13, 1976
Decommissioned:
1999
Turkish Navy service:
tranferred to Turkey
renamed TCG Bartin
Commissioned:
July 25, 2002
IN SERVICE
Namesake: Bartin is a city in
northern Turkey and the central district of the province of
Bartin
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F 505 TCG Bafra
French Navy service:
F-788 FS Second Maitre
Le Bihan
Laid down: November 1, 1976
Launched: August 13, 1977
Commissioned: July 7, 1979
Decommissioned:
2002
Turkish Navy service:
tranferred to Turkey
renamed TCG Bafra
Commissioned:
July 24, 2003
IN SERVICE
Namesake: Bafra is a city in the
Province of Samsun, Northern Turkey
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Burak class Corvette (Turkish: Burak sınıfı korvet), also known as
the B-class Corvette, is a warship class of the Turkish Navy, all
ex-D'Estienne d'Orves-class A69 type aviso corvettes, mainly
designed for coastal anti-submarine defense and ocean escort
missions. Their robust design and economical propulsion system
allows them to be used for distant overseas operations. |
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Model 68 CADAM DP Gun (100mm/55-caliber)
MM38 Exocet SSM anti-ship missile
launcher and Bofors 375mm anti-submarine mortar
12.75" / 324mm torpedo tubes (on both sides)
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