TCG Muavenet (DM 357)
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 Turkey
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| Name: | TCG Muavenet |
| Launched: | see USS Gwin |
| Acquired: | 15 August 1971 |
| Identification: | DM 357 |
| Fate: | crippled by Sea Sparrow missiles fired from USS Saratoga on 1 October 1992, broken up for scrap |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 2,200 tons |
| Length: | 376 ft 5 in (114.73 m) |
| Beam: | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
| Draft: | 15 ft 8 in (4.78 m) |
| Speed: | 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph) |
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TCG Muavenet (DM-357) (previously USS Gwin, transferred in 1971) was a destroyer minelayer of the Turkish Navy crippled by two Sea Sparrow missiles fired from the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga during a NATO exercise in Saros Bay, Turkey in 1992, resulting in death and injury among its crew.
During the autumn of 1992, the United States, Turkey, and several other NATO members participated in "Exercise Display Determination 1992", a combined forces naval exercise under the overall command of Admiral Jeremy Michael Boorda of the United States Navy. The forces of participating nations were assigned to either of two multinational teams. Vice Admiral T. Joseph Lopez of the United States Navy led the "Brown Forces," which included Saratoga. The opposing "Green Forces," including Muavenet were under the direct control of Admiral Kroon of the Netherlands.
During the "enhanced tactical" phase of the training exercises, the Brown Forces were to attempt an amphibious landing at Saros Bay in the Aegean Sea against the resistance offered by the Green Forces. Admiral Boorda ordered the units comprising each force to actively seek and "destroy" each other. Both task force commanders had full authority to engage the simulated enemy when and where they deemed appropriate and to use all warfare assets at their disposal to achieve victory.
During an exercise planning session on 1 October 1992, the Battle Group commander, Rear Admiral Philip Dur, did not order that a simulated attack on nearby opposition forces use Sea Sparrow missiles. Sea Sparrow missiles, an anti-aircraft defensive system, were not part of existing doctrine for fighting surface targets and had not been used before, either in exercises or in live combat operations against surface targets.
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