Anadolu Class (Juan Carlos LPD)
Owned By
| Operator: | Turkey |
| Status: | On Order |
| Number: | 1 |
| Cost: | $0.5-$1 billion |
| Acquired: | Expected delivery in 2021 |
| General Specs: | |
| Country of origin: | Spain (Design) / Turkey (Production) |
| Class: | Landing Platform Dock / multi-purpose amphibious ship |
| Manufacturer: | Sedef Gemi Insaati A.S. |
| Introduced: | 2021 |
| Displacement: | 27079 tons |
| Length: | 757.9 ft (231 m) |
| Beam: | 105 ft (32 m) |
| Draft: | 22.3 ft (6.8 m) |
| Propullsion: | 5 x MAN 16V32/40 diesel engines |
| Speed: | 24.2 mph (21 knots/38.9 km/h) |
| Range: | 9,000 miles (14,484 km) |
| Crew: | 261 |
| Transport Capacity | |
| Aircraft: | 8-10 x F-35B Lightning II fighters (if procured) |
| <25 x medium and large helicopters (including CH-47, S-70B Seahawk, T-70 Black Hawk) | |
| Boats/Landing Craft: | 2 x LCAC hovercraft or 4 x conventional landing craft |
| Vehicles: | <94 tanks, armored vehicles, amphibious assault vehicles, and trucks |
| Troops: | <700 troops |
| Armament: | |
| Guns: | 4 x 25mm Aselsan STOP remote controlled stabilized gun |
| 3 x 12.7mm Aselsan STAMP remoted controlled stabilized gun | |
| 2 x Mk 15 Phalanx close-in weapon systems (CIWS) | |
| Anti-air: | None |
| Anti-ship: | None |
| Other: | None |
| Radar/Sensors: | SMART-2 Mk2 3D search radar |
| Aselsan Alper navigation radar | |
| AselFlir-300d infrared search and track | |
| ARES-2N R-ESM | |
| Defense/ Countermeasures: | Kalkan chaff and infrared decoy launchers |
| TORK torpedo countermeasure system | |
| Other: | Genesis ADVEnt combat management system |
| Link 11/16/22/JRE/VMF data links | |
| HF/VHF/UHF radio and satellite communication systems |
Sources:
- George Tsiboukis, “Turkey Signs Contract with Navantia-Sedef for the Construction of a Light Aircraft Carrier,” Dartmouth Centre for Seapower and Strategy, Plymouth University, May 11, 2015.
- “New Type LHD Class,” Bosphorus Naval News, 2015.
- Burak Ege Bekdil, “Turkey Selects Local Shipyard for LPD Contract,” Defense News, December 29, 2013.
- “LHD ‘Juan Carlos 1’ (L-61),” Armadad Espanola, 2015.
- “Turkey builds indigenous helicopter ship to be ‘national flagship’ in 2021,” Hurriyet, January 4, 2015.
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