A-class minehunter

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Amasra (M266)
Class overview
Builders	Lürssen Abeking & Rasmussen Istanbul Naval Yard
Operators	Turkish Navy
In commission	2005–present
Planned	6
Building	0
Completed	6
Active	6
General characteristics
Type	Minehunter
Displacement	650 t
Length	54.4 m (178 ft)
Beam	9.2 m (30 ft)
Draft	2.6 m (8 ft 6 in)
Propulsion	2 × MTU 16V 538 TB91 diesel engines, 2040 kW each 2 × electric motors for slow and silent maneuvering 2 × Renk PLS 25 E gearboxes 2 × controllable pitch propellers
Speed	18 kn (33 km/h)
Complement	41
Sensors and processing systems	1 × Marconi 2093 VDS mine hunting sonar DRBN 32 navigation radar
Electronic warfare & decoys	2 × Barricade chaff and flare launcher
Armament	1 × 30 mm gun 2 × 12.7 mm machine gun 2 × PAP-105 Mk5 mine hunting system Mine laying capabilities
Notes	mine diver equipment, decompression chamber crane

The A class is a class of minehunter vessels in the Turkish Navy. In 1999, the German shipyards Lürssen and Abeking & Rasmussen were contracted to build six Frankenthal-class ships for the Turkish Navy, a purchase worth US$630 million. While the first vessel was built in Germany, later ships were constructed by the Istanbul Naval Shipyard.^[1]

The Turkish Navy has become the second naval force in the world, after the German Navy, to use a non-magnetic steel hull in its minehunter vessels.

• Lists of ships of the Turkish Navy