Yavuz-class frigate

F-241 TCG Turgut Reis, a Yavuz class (MEKO 200TN Track I) frigate of the Turkish Navy, in Cartagena, Spain.
Class overview
Name:	Yavuz, MEKO 200 TN
Builders:	Blohm + Voss, Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, Gölcük Naval Shipyard
Operators:	Turkish Navy
Succeeded by:	Barbaros-class frigate
In commission:	1987 - present
Completed:	4
Active:	4
General characteristics
Type:	Frigate
Displacement:	3030 tons full load
Length:	110.50 m
Beam:	13.25 m
Draught:	3.94 m
Installed power:	2 MTU 20V 1163 diesel-engines, 40,000 hp
Propulsion:	2 shaft, controllable pitch propellers
Speed:	27 knots
Range:	4,000 nautical miles (7,000 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h)
Complement:	180 (29 officers, 151 enlisted men)
Sensors and processing systems:	Radar TM 1126 AWS-6 HSA D08 HSA STIR 124 Sonar SQS-56,
Electronic warfare & decoys:	Rapid/Rameses suite, Mk 36 decoy
Armament:	2 Mk 141 quad-pack Launcher for 8 x RGM-84 Harpoon 1 MK 21 Guided Missile Launching System for 16 x RIM-7 Sea Sparrow 1 × 5 inch /54 gun 3 × Oerlikon Contraves Sea Zenith 25mm CIWS gun systems 2 × 3 12.75" Mk.32 torpedo tubes in triple mountings
Aviation facilities:	Hangar and platform for 1 × AB 212 ASW helicopter

The Yavuz-class are a group of four frigates that were built for the Turkish Navy. They were designed in Germany and are part of the MEKO family of modular warships; in this case the MEKO 200 design. Two ships were built in Germany and two in Turkey with German assistance. They are similar in design to the larger Barbaros-class frigates of the Turkish Navy, which are improved versions of the Yavuz-class frigate.

The Turkish Navy has an ongoing procurement project for an Electronic Warfare Suite. The intent is to locally produced the ECM, ECCM systems, active decoys, LWR’s, IRST and the necessary user interface systems.

An order for ships was signed by the Turkish government in April 1983 for two MEKO class frigates to be built in Germany and two to be built in Turkey.