The main logic is to get 4 ships for a scrap price of 100 million and upgrade them extensively. If you throw 70-100 million $ for each ship Turkish industry can change nearly every subsystem of the ship with a national equivalent. It will become something like an Atak chopper. The total price will become something like 125 million $ it will be cheaper than the half price of a new I-class frigate. Even then I'm supporting I class because we can use I class for the next 40 years we will retire Type 23T in 15 years.
A corvette fleet of 4x Ada Class Milgems and 6x Hisar Class OPVs (replacing Burak class one by one) are more than enough for our needs. We can upgrade Milgems with Hisar air defense missiles and new sonar systems like DÜFAS VDS. +4 I class will add a good capability for our frigate fleet. 8 I class with Cenk-S AESA and Siper capability will be a big force multiplier. If we make additional plans for the +4 I class today we can build 8 ships in 5 years.
Corvette Fleet
4x upgraded Ada class corvettes
6x Hisar class OPVs (2023-?)
Frigate Fleet
4x I class block I frigates (2023-2026)
4x I class block II frigates (2026-2028 increased national contribution, installation of some of the subsystem like MIDLAS block 2, Roketsan Levent/Aselsan Gökdeniz-ER, MKE 20mm CIWS, Nazar Lite etc )
4x upgraded Barbaros class (2023-2025)
4x Gabya class
Destroyer Fleet
1x TF-2000 in trials. (2028)
Lightly upgraded Gabyas will be retired and kept for spares
Yavuz class frigates will be retired and put on reserve
This is a really good fleet structure that can be achieved before 2030 without many hurdles. Every money we put on Type 2023 is money taken away from our own defense industry.
A corvette fleet of 4x Ada Class Milgems and 6x Hisar Class OPVs (replacing Burak class one by one) are more than enough for our needs. We can upgrade Milgems with Hisar air defense missiles and new sonar systems like DÜFAS VDS. +4 I class will add a good capability for our frigate fleet. 8 I class with Cenk-S AESA and Siper capability will be a big force multiplier. If we make additional plans for the +4 I class today we can build 8 ships in 5 years.
Corvette Fleet
4x upgraded Ada class corvettes
6x Hisar class OPVs (2023-?)
Frigate Fleet
4x I class block I frigates (2023-2026)
4x I class block II frigates (2026-2028 increased national contribution, installation of some of the subsystem like MIDLAS block 2, Roketsan Levent/Aselsan Gökdeniz-ER, MKE 20mm CIWS, Nazar Lite etc )
4x upgraded Barbaros class (2023-2025)
4x Gabya class
Destroyer Fleet
1x TF-2000 in trials. (2028)
Lightly upgraded Gabyas will be retired and kept for spares
Yavuz class frigates will be retired and put on reserve
This is a really good fleet structure that can be achieved before 2030 without many hurdles. Every money we put on Type 2023 is money taken away from our own defense industry.