What are the basic prerequisites of an ASW ship?
Number 1 prerequisite should be a very good sonar system. You need to recognise your enemy and target before you can take measures to counter it.
A towed array sonar like Captas-4, will potentially recognise a submarine faraway, well before that submarine is in range for torpedo launch. HIZIR-LFAS needs to be of the same caliber.
Number 2 has to be an anti submarine helicopter that can carry a light torpedo like ORCA
It should have ample number of anti submarine torpedoes in it’s inventory.
It has to have modern and long range depth charge delivery capability.
It also needs to have a modern decoy system like ZOKA.
Capability to launch naval mines.
A high quality anti submarine missile like ASROC VLA missiles
Of course a ship like that has to have electronics that would support all these weapons.
ADA Class corvettes were built specifically for ASW missions. We also have 16 Tuzla Class YTKB ships that are supposed to have extensive ASW capabilities.
How much of the above weaponry do these have I wonder? At the moment many of them , especially Tuzla Class, are like
“for but not with” state. So like
@Sanchez we are all waiting for ADA MLU.