| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Builders: | Lürssen Werft, Bremen-Vegesack |
| Operators: | Turkish Navy |
| In commission: | 1977– |
| Completed: | 8 |
| Active: | 8 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Fast Attack Craft |
| Displacement: | 206 long tons (209 t) |
| Length: | 42.5 m (139 ft 5 in) |
| Beam: | 7 m (23 ft 0 in) |
| Draught: | 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in) |
| Propulsion: | 4 × Mercedes-Benz diesel engines 12,000 hp (8.9 MW) 4 shafts |
| Speed: | 42 knots (78 km/h; 48 mph) |
| Range: | 700 nmi (1,300 km; 810 mi) at 35 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Complement: | 39 |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
Decca 1226 navigation radar |
| Armament: | • 2 × quad Penguin Mk.2 SSM launchers • 2 × Bofors 40 mm autocannon • 2 × single G-7A 21 in (533 mm) torpedo launchers • 4 × Mines |
The Kartal class is one of the fast attack missile and torpedo boat classes of the Turkish Navy.
The vessels of this class were built by Lürssen Werft in Germany, and were based on the Zobel class. However, unlike the Zobel class FACs which were armed with only torpedoes, the Kartal class are armed with missiles and torpedoes, and can carry up to four mines.
TCG Kartal was the first vessel of the class to be launched, but TCG Denizkuşu was the first to be delivered and commissioned.
| Pennant number |
Name | Commissioned |
|---|---|---|
| P-321 | Denızkuşu | 15 June 1977 |
| P-322 | Atmaca | 28 July 1978 |
| P-323 | Şahın | 19 July 1979 |
| P-324 | Kartal | 25 July 1981 |
| P-326 | Pelıkan | 17 December 1984 |
| P-327 | Albatros | 7 February 1986 |
| P-328 | Şımşek | 22 July 1988 |
| P-329 | Kasirga | 23 October 1988 |
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