Turkish Navy signed a contract with Aselsan-Havelsan Joint Venture for mid-life upgrade on Barbaros class frigates. The scope of the contract is to replace the legacy combat management system on board of the 4 MEKO 200 Track IIA/B class frigates, commissioned between 1997 and 2000 to Turkish Navy. These frigates have TACTICOS combat management system... Continue Reading →
The fourth and last ship of Ada class corvettes, F-514 TCG Kınalıada was launched today, after 8 years and 9 months since first indigenous warship TCG Heybeliada left the slipway. Today also marked the start of a new era of Turkish warship construction. The first module of the frigate TCG Istanbul was laid on the... Continue Reading →
Turkish Naval Forces organised a national Submarine Workshop on 15. and 16. June at Tuzla Naval Shipyard. This invitation only workshop was attended by marine engineers both military and civilian, representatives of defense companies and scholars. The aim was to create a viable road map for the National Submarine, to identify competencies and competences of... Continue Reading →
Temren means arrowhead in Turkish. The missile is designed primarily to be used by naval helicopters against small surface targets. It is possible to adapt the missile to be used from small combatants in the future. The missile is a derivate of the long range anti-tank missile UMTAS developed by Roketsan. My understanding is that... Continue Reading →
A new batch of photos from Turkish Navy ATR-72-600 TMPA plane has emerged. The photos from last year showed an unpainted airplane where as this year the plane seems to be fully painted. The first plane should have been delivered back in February 2017. But like the Meltem-I and Meltem_II projects, this Meltem-III has been... Continue Reading →
During the IDEF 2015 12th International Defense Industry Fair, Turkish Navy shared the first conceptual drawing of the second generation of Milgem class. There was a poster about TCG Istanbul on the Turkish Naval Forces booth during IDEF 2017 too. I though it would be interesting to compare the photos and see how the design... Continue Reading →
Mr. Hakan Kılıç, military aviation and ballistics missiles and BMD researcher, visited the newest warship of Turkish Navy: TCG Bayraktar. He took photos during his visit and kindly allowed me to used them. The photos you are about to see are his, but comments are mine.
The fitting out of the third Ada class (Milgem) corvette TCG Burgazada is proceeding on the dry dock. The fabrication of the hull of the fourth and final Ada class corvette TCG Kınalıada is almost finished. The pre-fabrication of the first İ class frigate is continuing. First two blocks of the hull is ready to... Continue Reading →
6 years ago Indonesia was looking for new submarines to replace her old German Type 209 class boats. Turkey and South Korea were in competition to supply the new submarines. That was odd, very odd since both nations can only construct German submarines under license but neither has a locally developed submarines design. In other... Continue Reading →
In November 2016, Dutch shipyard Damen has signed a contract with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in Ankara, Turkey for the supply of six, search and rescue (SAR) vessels for delivery in 2017. The boats are designed for SAR operations in all-weather and can self right within seconds after a capsize or even a 360°... Continue Reading →
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