GÜR CLASS (Mod 209 Type 1400)

NUMBER	NAME	LAUNCHED	COMMISSIONED
S-357	GÜR	May 2002	24 July 2003
S-358	ÇANAKKALE	August 2002	26 July 2005
S-359	BURAKREİS	5 September 2005	15 February 2006
S-360	BİRİNCİ İNÖNÜ	May 2006	22 July 2007

Characteristics:
Displacement: 1586 tons dived
Dimensions: 62 x 6.2 x 5.5 metres
Speed, Range: 15 knots, 8200 miles at 8 kts.
Crew: 30 (8 officers)

Weapons:
Missiles: Harpoon SSM
Torpedoes: Tigerfish Mk 24 Mod 2; STN Atlas DM2A4 14 Harpoons & Torpedoes;
8 – 533mm bow tubes

Sensors:
Radars: Surface search
Sonars: CSU-83 passive and active search and attack; TAS-3 towed array

Comments:
The Gür class submarines have the same physical appearance and characteristics as the Preveze class submarines. Since Turkish Navy stopped painting pennant numbers on the hulls of submarines in order to increase their stealth, it has become impossible from outside to identify the 8 submarines of the Preveze and Gür classes.

A contract for a second batch of Preveze class was signed between the Turkish Navy and HDW at 22 July 1998. The construction of S-357 TCG Gür was started two days later.

Turkish Navy considers these boats as a separate class because of their advanced features. These are: