Told by a person who doesn't know the developments pre-2010, Ada-Class and upgrades on frigates. Kilic-II Class are delivered after 2000, so does some of the Type 209s. Count in the upgrades that technically refurbishes a hull. Even Yavuz Class has received minor upgrades, 4 Gabyas are upgraded from trash to fully functioning frigate, while rest 4 upgraded from trash to a decent frigate.
A bit of googling and wiki could help him though. But sickness of 2020s, "i know it all, i know it right". Don't take these people serious lacking some basic historical knowledge apart from the technical one.
According to him, a new vessel should be commissioned every year as if the ships doesn't have service life of nearly 40 years with proper upgrades.
Appearantly he doesn't know the fact that TN could acquire frigates on a fast track in 2010s but they are stick with a plan to design and build it domestically. Or TTFAC project was delayed particularly because Navy has requested something and it took time.
Yes, TN is not in a 'good' condition operating fresh vessels but Navies have cycle of 20 to 30 years to replenish the fleet with new hulls. We are on the verge of this 30 years, and the fleet will be refreshed with new hulls in 2020. (The earlier cycle was 85 to 95)
We could have aquired Destroyers equipped with ESSM and SM-2 Missiles 10 years ago but the Navy wanted its own design and to expand its capabilities, and thank god they did. Yes it took time and yes some vessels are old but now we are talking about building our own Destroyer with TF-2000 equipped with our own subsystems (well the majority at least) and missiles.
Imagine in what state we would be in if we had ordered 4 Alvaro de Bazan Destroyers from Spain 10 years ago. We would have gained immense capabilities in the short term but would be as advanced as we are now with our own industry? I do not believe it.
How operable would those ships be with the sanctions we are facing right now?
We have and are developing solutions that we might not have seen if we had gone with foreign suppliers.
In the next ten years the navy most likely will commission over a dozen ships. Many of those large surface vessels (I-Class, TF-2000, LHD, FAC, ADKG).
I understand being grounded by sadly some people in the industry love being the overly pessimist who has do find the bad in everything.
I think I prefer this situation to one where our Destroyers are left without missiles and modernizations because our so called "Allies" have sanctioned us.
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