Fixed it for you;
TCG Sulh, which also fits the motto.
This will also sail around the world, a noice word fun - we bring 'Peace' to your place.
Here are my technical remarks on the project or what we have seen so far.
The design is roughly a template showing the Navy's intentions, requirements even, nothing solid yet on the design but we know something for sure;
- We are to be satisfied with skijump assisted take-off. This also interests the aircraft designers, a catapult launch requires a design input from today (as well as operational planning, MTOW and so on).
- For the time being we will have to make do with mechanical propulsion. However, I personally expect a twin-island configuration in later iterations with a semi-IEP configuration. Just a wild guess, but as in the OPV, we may have gas turbines directly driving the propeller and larger diesel engines positioned around mid-ship with exhaust going through the forward island, and these gensets can either drive the propeller or supply some 'intensive energy demand'.
- The speed is set at 25 knots, which is also DIMDEG's maximum speed in a given sea state. So the guys increased the speed requirement of DIMDEG in lieu of preparing an aircraft carrier.
- We see 4, fixed face AESA, probably the X-band which can also serve as approach radar, the top radar seems of an S-band, volume search. It is a wild guess, but the X-band radar may be configured to manage drones in visual range. I see no additional antennas for the drone.
- In this context, I expect a conformal X-band satellite antenna for wide bandwidth communications. Is this even possible? Maybe not, but we have 15 years minimum to make it available.
- The second point refers to, is that we are stuck with a single island configuration. Unless otherwise we switch to a semi-IEP.
- An angled landing deck is almost certain, but not put in the first template.
- Unlike the earlier projects, this time the Navy has put a cap on the tonnage, the tonnage given is the maximum ever and I expect it to go down between 50 and 55 and settle there in later iterations.
We should be glad for these reasons;
- Anything DPO sketches eventually goes into construction and to the service, they are not a shipdesign office that plays with concepts for visuality but a place that makes Navy's requirement into comprehensible visual concepts, that later can be worked on by other companies/institutions.
- They are not adopting an azimuth thruster based solution because there is no available azimuth that provides such a propulsion power ( safely speaking of 100 MW ) and unlike Anadolu, this girl is prepared for real action. Therefore their intention to keep propulsion as plain as possible,