Kartal class
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The Kartal class is one of the fast attack missile and torpedo boat
Fast Attack Craft
Fast Attack Craft are small, fast, agile and offensive warships, that are armed with anti-ship missiles, guns or torpedoes. These are usually operated in close proximity to land as they lack both the sea-keeping and all-round defensive capabilities to survive in blue water. The size of the vessel...
classes of the Turkish Navy
Turkish Navy
The Turkish Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the Turkish Armed Forces.- Ottoman fleet after Mudros :Following the demise of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War I, on November 3, 1918, the fleet commander of the Ottoman Navy, Liva Amiral Arif Pasha, ordered all flags to be...
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The vessels of this class were built by Lürssen Werft in Germany
Germany
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, and were based on the Zobel class
Zobel class fast attack craft
The Type 142 Zobel class was a German class of torpedo bearing Fast Attack Craft . They were in service with the Bundesmarine during the Cold War to protect the Baltic sea coast...
. However, unlike the Zobel class FACs which were armed with only torpedoes, the Kartal class are armed with missile
Missile
Though a missile may be any thrown or launched object, it colloquially almost always refers to a self-propelled guided weapon system.-Etymology:The word missile comes from the Latin verb mittere, meaning "to send"...
s and torpedo
Torpedo
The modern torpedo is a self-propelled missile weapon with an explosive warhead, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater towards a target, and designed to detonate either on contact with it or in proximity to it.The term torpedo was originally employed for...
es, and can carry up to four mines
Naval mine
A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to destroy surface ships or submarines. Unlike depth charges, mines are deposited and left to wait until they are triggered by the approach of, or contact with, an enemy vessel...
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TCG Kartal was the first vessel of the class to be launched, but TCG Denizkuşu was the first to be delivered and commissioned.
List of boats
| 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 |