Bayaraktar Class TCG, World's biggest ship of this class.
The Bayraktar class LST was designed, built and commissioned in a period of just 46 months. The second vessel in class, TCG Sancaktar L-403 is a 2nd ship of this class.
These vessels represent a significant improvement over the Turkish Navy’s obsolete fleet of aging landing ships originally procured from the United States in the 1970s.
Retains a conventional bow-first landing design for discharging troops and equipment via a bow ramp, while the Korean vessel has dispended with any bow discharging capabilities. Both vessels are equipped with large forward deck cranes designed to embark/disembark large landing craft stowed on deck. Both classes of vessel have stern and side ramps for loading and unloading vehicles and stores while berthed at conventional dock facilities. The vessels are self-sustaining when it comes to loading and unloading, and do not require shore based cranes or elaborate port infrastructure. Both vessels also operate helicopters from an aft flight deck, with the ROK vessel able to accommodate two helicopters simultaneously. The similarities in the two LSTs is not much of a surprise, as Turkey and South Korea have engaged in a great deal of cooperation in the defense industry for many years.
The Bayraktar has a defensive armament consisting of two 40mm Oto Malara deck guns mounted port and starboard on the bow, 2 Mk15 CIWS close-in defense rotary cannons, and 2 crew-serviced 12.7mm machine guns. The Havelsan GENESIS combat management system (CMS) is fitted, and married to a Thales SMART-S Mk2 radar, making these new LSTs the most capable amphibious vessels in the Turkish Navy’s inventory. The vessels not only increase the amphibious warfare capabilities of the navy, but when coupled with the Anadolu LHD currently under construction, provide a limited power projection capability. The vessels are also very useful in carrying out Humanitarian and Disaster Relief (HADR) operations.
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The Bayraktar class LST was designed, built and commissioned in a period of just 46 months. The second vessel in class, TCG Sancaktar L-403 is a 2nd ship of this class.
These vessels represent a significant improvement over the Turkish Navy’s obsolete fleet of aging landing ships originally procured from the United States in the 1970s.
Retains a conventional bow-first landing design for discharging troops and equipment via a bow ramp, while the Korean vessel has dispended with any bow discharging capabilities. Both vessels are equipped with large forward deck cranes designed to embark/disembark large landing craft stowed on deck. Both classes of vessel have stern and side ramps for loading and unloading vehicles and stores while berthed at conventional dock facilities. The vessels are self-sustaining when it comes to loading and unloading, and do not require shore based cranes or elaborate port infrastructure. Both vessels also operate helicopters from an aft flight deck, with the ROK vessel able to accommodate two helicopters simultaneously. The similarities in the two LSTs is not much of a surprise, as Turkey and South Korea have engaged in a great deal of cooperation in the defense industry for many years.
The Bayraktar has a defensive armament consisting of two 40mm Oto Malara deck guns mounted port and starboard on the bow, 2 Mk15 CIWS close-in defense rotary cannons, and 2 crew-serviced 12.7mm machine guns. The Havelsan GENESIS combat management system (CMS) is fitted, and married to a Thales SMART-S Mk2 radar, making these new LSTs the most capable amphibious vessels in the Turkish Navy’s inventory. The vessels not only increase the amphibious warfare capabilities of the navy, but when coupled with the Anadolu LHD currently under construction, provide a limited power projection capability. The vessels are also very useful in carrying out Humanitarian and Disaster Relief (HADR) operations.
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