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Zafer 1978

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Zafer (ex-Hugh Purvis)	D356		Federal, Kearny, USA	23.5.1944	17.12.1944	1.3.1945 // 15.2.1972	stricken 1993

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2200
Displacement full, t	3300
Length, m	112.5 wl 114.8 oa
Breadth, m	12.5
Draught, m	4.39 hull 5.79 over sonar
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets General Electric geared steam turbines, 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	60000
Max speed, kts	33
Fuel, t	oil 650
Endurance, nm(kts)	4300(11)
Armament	3 x 2 - 127/38 Mk 38, 2 x 3 - 324 TT, 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 11 ASWRL, 1 DCR
Electronic equipment	SPS-29, SPS-10, nav., Mk 25 radars, SQS-29 sonar, WLR-1, ULQ-6 ECM suites, 2x RBOC decoy RL
Complement	275

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Project history

Former USN Allen M. Sumner class destroyer, modified under FRAM-II programme, transferred to Turkey under MDAP.

Modernizations

1977: + 2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 2 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3

1979: - 2 x 1 - 40/60; + 1 x 2 - 35/90 GDM-A

Naval service

No significant events.