Published January 19,2024
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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke on the Blue Homeland, New Naval Platforms Delivery Ceremony at Yalova Sefine Shipyard.
Highlights from President Erdoğan’s remarks:
“We imagine that every of our delivered ships will add extra energy to the facility of our Naval Forces. Our replenishment fight help ship TCG Derya has the excellence of being the biggest ship after TCG Anadolu. With the entry into service of TCG Derya, the refueling and water provide of the items will likely be quickly carried out, and the gas and water wants of the fight components will likely be simply met in areas near the operational space.
As identified, TCG Istanbul, the fifth ship of the MİLGEM venture, is Türkiye’s first domestically produced nationwide frigate. We built-in completely different radar, shut air protection, and digital warfare programs into this ship utilizing our personal capabilities. One of the programs built-in into TCG Istanbul is the nationwide vertical launcher system.
Our logistic help ship TCG Üsteğmen Arif Ekmekçi, which we put into service at this time, will meet the gas, contemporary water, and meals wants of the fight components. I want the delivered ships to be auspicious for our navy and the Turkish Armed Forces. I wish to thank everybody who has given us this pleasure and satisfaction on behalf of myself, my nation, and my nation.
Today, we’re not solely happy with the supply of our ships. We are additionally delivering our first unmanned floor car with digital warfare functionality to our navy. Our autonomous floor car Marlin SİDA will carry out intelligence, reconnaissance, surveillance, floor warfare, digital help, and digital assault missions unmanned and totally autonomously. Marlin SİDA, with its superior technical options, will help our dominance at sea and instill confidence in our allies and concern in our enemies. I want Marlin SİDA to be auspicious for our Naval Forces as properly.
The secret of those profitable tasks that make us proud lies within the more and more growing shut cooperation and coordination amongst our establishments. Under the management of the Presidency of Defense Industries, our Naval Forces Command, navy and personal shipyards, related state establishments, universities, personal sector, and SMEs are working in concord. As inter-agency coordination and understanding strengthen, game-changing tasks like those we see right here at this time emerge. I wholeheartedly imagine that we are going to obtain new successes by taking this coordination additional within the coming interval.”
Source: www.anews.com.tr