I don't think all would have been delivered, It wouldn't make sense to receive all those critical components especially of AIP, and store them for 10 years. Neither Germans would ship all without seeing how does it go in the First sub.
It wasn't a design fault on the final product, but TN has requested heavy modifacitions (one was related to the design flaw found out in Greek and SK subs), and also to fit Turkish made systems and modify the ship according to their needs, have made project taking longer to skip into production
The design flaw I was referring to was the fact that the first class214 sub built for Greek Navy had balance problems. As it was surfacing it was badly tilting at its side. This had to be addressed and corrected By adding weights etc. Our navy was not pleased with the interlm solution Germans came up with. My information was such that the Turkish engineers have come up with the idea of elongating the hull and hence moving the centre of gravity of the ship which sorted the problem out for our ships.
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Originally the class was to be called
CERBE, but in 2014 significant design modifications were made to meet TNF requirements and to cater for some technical problems with the HDW design. The former commander of TNF, Adm. Bülent Bostanoglu, is on record as stating that Turkish engineers found five major design flaws and developed solutions for them. The resulting submarine, longer and heavier than CERBE, was renamed the REIS-class. The latest revision in the overall length makes the current submarines 2.05m longer than the original CERBE design. MONCh understands that surface displacement is around 1,850t and submerged displacement likely to be 2,040-2,050.
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Public domain information seen by MONCh at the SAHA exhibition held in Istanbul in September indicates that the overall length of the REIS-class Type 214TN air independent propulsion (AIP) submarines under construction for Turkish Naval Forces (TFN) has been increased by 0.75m over previou...
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