TEPE (KNOX) CLASS
| NUMBER | NAME | LAUNCHED | COMMISSIONED |
| F-250 | MUAVENET | 21 Sep 1972 | 12 Sep 1993 |
| F-253 | ZAFER | 12 Aug 1972 | 30 Aug 1993 |
Characteristics:
Displacement: 4260 tons full load
Dimensions: 134 x 14.3 x 4.6 ; 7.8 (sonar) metres
Speed, Range: 29 knots, 4300 miles at 20 kts.
Crew: 228 (20 officers)
Weapons:
Weapons: Guns: 1 x 127 mm/54; 1 x Mk 15 Phalanx
Missiles: 4 x Harpoon SSM; ASROC Mk 16 launcher
Torpedoes: 2 x 324 mm Mk 32 twin launcher for Mk 46's.
Helicopters: 1 x AB 212 ASW
Sensors:
Sensors: Radars: SPS-40D, air search; SPS-10; SPS-67, surface search; SPG-53D/F, fire control; TM1226, navigation; SRN 15, Tacan
Sonars: SQS-26 CX
Comments:
MUAVENET was given as a grant. She replaced a Robert H. Smith Class destroyer (DM-357 MUAVENET, ex- USS Gwin DD-772) with the same name. The destroyer was hit by a Sea Sparrow missile fired from US aircraft carrier Saratoga during NATO Exercise Display Determination 92. 5 sailors including the commander were killed in this incident.
The rest were leased. W.S. SIMS (FF 1059) and PAUL (FF 1080) have been given for cannibalization.
With their strong sonar and signal analyzing systems, these ships enhanced the ASW capabilities of the Turkish Navy. The hulls of these ships are old, the steam-based machinery is expensive to operate, difficult to maintain and the C3I systems are almost obsolete.
The combat management systems of the remaining have been modernized with Sigma K-5 command control and Link 11 systems.
| Name in Turkish Navy | Name in USN | Decommissioned |
| MUAVENET | Capodanno FFG-1093 | |
| ADATEPE | Fanning FFG-1076 | 2000 |
| KOCATEPE | Reasoner FFG-1062 | 2002 |
| ZAFER | Thomas C Hart FFG- 1092 | |
| TRAKYA | McCandless FFG- 1084 | 2003 |
| KARADENİZ | D. B. Beary FFG-1085 | 2006 |
| EGE | Ainsworth FFG- 1090 | 2005 |
| AKDENİZ | Bowen FFG-1079 | 2002 |