Tolun F(fragmentation Warhead) firing test from Akinci.
two Tolun F on the outer pylons and two normal on the central pylon.
Maybe it will also get IIR variant in the future
i know i just wanted to say that at least 6 are under contract to be build, 2 are under construction with dearsan and 4 are to be decided and an option for 2 more.
Firstly is it 5% or 3.5% defence expenditure plus 1.5% for defence relevant projects.
Secondly 1$ dollar spend by us equals 3 spend by other nato members since our defence industry is really efficient and we don't have to pay those extortion prices anymore since most is done in house. But the...
Sale of Akhisar is getting closer. The Romanian budget is 233 million dollars for the purchase and 42 million dollars for modifications.
My guess is the cost for our navy is less than 200 million dollars per ship in this current configuration even if it gets armed to the teeth(midlas ,cenk300…)...
It’s about realistic views. Of course we all wish for 8 tf2000 hell why not 12 plus another 8 asfat3600 how about we ad a couple more heavily armed hisar Opv. The issue is we don’t have enough money for everything and need to make the most out of our money. Tf2000 are creme de la creme the best...
So my guess would be for the next 10-15 years the navy will introduce/have based on my realistic expectation and news
8 Istif
4 TF2000
4-6 TF2000 Flight 2 (Medium frigate) still rough speculation
4 Modernized Meko 200TN track 2 (barbaros)
8-10 Hisar ADKG configuration still unknown...
My guess would be that it would have a similar sensor loadout to this but on a bigger ship. The design would be similar to European design with one mfr and one LRR
https://turdef.com/article/turdef-at-itk-dpo-tf-2000-and-mugem-part-ii-tf-2000
According to turdef there are plans for Tf2000 light under consideration.
My guesses is after 4 TF2000 a price optimised frigate/destroyer will come with a reduced systems instead cafrad only the multi function radar...