BARBAROS CLASS (MODIFIED MEKO 200 TYPE) (FFGHM)
IN SERVICE: 4
Name
No
Builders
Laid down
Launched
Commissioned
BARBAROS
F 244
Blohm + Voss, Hamburg
18 Mar 1993
29 Sep 1993
16 Mar 1995
ORUCREIS
F 245
Gölcük, Kocaeli
15 Sep 1993
28 July 1994
10 May 1996
SALIHREIS
F 246
Blohm + Voss, Hamburg
24 July 1995
26 Sep 1997
17 Dec 1998
KEMALREIS
F 247
Gölcük, Kocaeli
4 Apr 1997
24 July 1998
8 June 2000
Displacement, tons: 3,380 full load
Dimensions, feet (metres): 387.1 × 48.6 × 14.1; 21 (sonar)
(118 × 14.8 × 4.3; 6.4)
Main machinery: CODOG; 2 GE LM 2500 gas turbines; 60,000 hp (44.76 MW) sustained; 2 MTU 16V 1163 TB83 diesels; 11,780 hp(m) (8.67 MW) sustained; 2 shafts; Escher Wyss; cp props
Speed, knots: 32. Range, n miles: 4,100 at 18 kt
Complement: 187 (22 officers) plus 9 aircrew plus 8 spare
Missiles: SSM: 8 McDonnell Douglas Harpoon (2 quad) launchers [Ref 1]; active radar homing to 130 km (70 n miles) at 0.9 Mach; warhead 227 kg.
SAM: Raytheon Sea Sparrow RIM-7M Mk 29 Mod 1 octuple launcher [Ref 2] (F 244 and F 245) and VLS Mk 41 Mod 8 [Ref 3] (F 246 and F 247); 24 Selenia Elsag Aspide; semi-active radar homing to 13 km (7 n miles) at 2.5 Mach; warhead 39 kg. Evolved Sea Sparrow (ESSM) in due course.
Guns: 1 FMC 5 in (127 mm)/54 Mk 45 Mod 1/2 [Ref 4]; 20 rds/min to 23 km (12.6 n miles) anti-surface; 15 km (8.2 n miles) anti-aircraft; weight of shell 32 kg.
3 Oerlikon-Contraves 25 mm Sea Zenith [Ref 5]; 4 barrels per mounting; 3,400 rds/min combined to 2 km.
Torpedoes: 6-324 mm Mk 32 Mod 5 (2 triple) tubes [Ref 6]. Honeywell Mk 46 Mod 5; anti-submarine; active/passive homing to 11 km (5.9 n miles) at 40 kt; warhead 44 kg.
Countermeasures: Decoys: 2 Loral Hycor 6-tubed fixed Mk 36 Mod 1 SRBOC [Ref 7]; IR flares and chaff to 4 km (2.2 n miles).
Nixie SLQ-25; towed torpedo decoy.
ESM/ECM: Racal Cutlass/Scorpion; intercept and jammer.
Combat data systems: Thomson-CSF/Signaal STACOS Mod 3; Link 11. WSC 3V(7) SATCOMs. Marisat.
Weapons control: 2 Siemens Albis optronic directors [Ref 8]. SWG-1A for Harpoon.
Radars: Air search: Siemens/Plessey AWS 9 (Type 996) [Ref 9]; 3D; E/F-band.
Air/surface search: Plessey/BAe AWS 6 Dolphin [Ref 10]; G-band.
Fire control: 1 or 2 (F 246-247) Signaal STIR [Ref 11]; I/J/K-band (for SAM); range 140 km (76 n miles) for 1 m2 target.
Contraves TMKu (F 244-245) [Ref 12]; I/J-band (for SSM and 127 mm).
2 Contraves Seaguard [Ref 13]; I/J-band (for 25 mm).
Navigation: Racal Decca 2690 BT ARPA; I-band.
Tacan: URN 25. IFF Mk XII Mod 4.
Sonars: Raytheon SQS-56 (DE 1160); hull-mounted; active search and attack; medium frequency.
Helicopters: 1 AB 212ASW [Ref 14] or S-70B Seahawk.
Programmes: First pair ordered 19 January 1990, second pair authorised 14 December 1992. Programme started 5 November 1991 with construction commencing in June 1992 in Germany. Completion of the last one delayed by the Gölcük earthquake in 1999.
Structure: An improvement on the Yavuz class. Mk 29 Sea Sparrow launchers fitted in the first two, while the second pair have Mk 41 VLS aft of the funnel, which will be retrofitted in the first two in due course. The ships have CODOG propulsion for a higher top speed. Other differences with Yavuz include a full command system, improved radars and a citadel for NBCD protection. A bow bulwark has been added in the second pair.
Operational: Helicopter has Sea Skua anti-ship missiles. The first pair used as Flagships.
