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The replacement program built TF-100 frigates of the Turkish Navy with the construction of four ships an improved version of the Ada class corvette program MilGem announced Mustafa Seker, head of the Turkish Defence Industry State Secretariat for the modernization program of the Turkish Navy. According to Mustafa Seker, the department chose the construction of an upgraded version of the Ada class corvette which codified MilGem Batch II to replace the shipbuilding program frigates TF-100. Recall that the frigate program TF-100 will replace four frigates MEKO-200TN Track I Yavuz class are from the early years who enrolled in service encountered problems.

The new class of frigates program MilGem Batch II (or MilGem-G) has a length of 110.56 meters, width of 14.4 meters and a draft of 3.95 meters and a displacement of 2820 tons. The four new ships will be equipped with Mk 41 vertical launchers of Lockheed Martin in the bow, systems of Thales STIR 1.2 and improved Battle Management System. The ship design will be completed in late 2014 with four ships heading Ada (two in service and two under construction) will be the units that will replace the six corvettes A69 and 4 frigates MEKO-200TN Track I signaling a radical Turkish plans change after originally planned to be built 12 ships in three batches. The first batch included the construction of the first two ships of the program MilGem which were built in the shipyards.

The second batch included ships Nos. 3-9 which will nafpigouse private company and the third batch vessels No. 12.9 which would form part of the TF-100. Eventually as shown state shipyards will finalize the construction of the first four ships of Ada class and will be followed by the construction of a public or private shipyard construction of four ships of the program MilGem Batch II while developing draft cruiser air defense program area TF -2000. In the final phase of the program will include 8 MilGem ships instead of the 12 planned in the late 1990s.