On January 19, 2024, at a ceremony at the Turkish shipbuilding enterprise Sefine Shipyard in Yalova on the Asian coast of the Marmara Sea, the official commissioning of four units of Turkish national construction at once, including the lead frigate F 515 Istanbul of the national project TF-100 of the MILGEM program, took place. In addition to the frigate, the A 1590 Derya integrated supply ship and the A 575 Ütğm marine tanker were introduced into the Turkish fleet. Arif Ekmekçi and a small unmanned MARLIN boat. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attended the ceremony.
The lead frigate F 515 Istanbul of the Turkish national construction of the TF-100 project under the MILGEM program (c) www.turdef.com
It should be recalled that the lead Turkish frigate F 515 Istanbul of the national project TF-100 of the MILGEM program (Millî Gemi - national ship) was built in Istanbul at the Turkish naval shipyard Istanbul Tersane Komutanlığı (Istanbul Naval Shipyard). Initially, the MILGEM program provided for the construction of 12 nationally designed Ada-type corvettes for the Turkish Navy (four units were commissioned into the Turkish Navy from 2011 to 2019), but then it was decided to replace the following ships of this type in the program after the first four (MILGEM-1 - MILGEM-4) with larger units, the development of which was It was launched in Turkey by four, and then eight, TF-100 (MILGEM-G) frigates.
The main contractor for the design and construction of all ships of the MILGEM program is the Turkish design and procurement state company Savunma Teknolojileri Mühendislik ve Ticaret (STM). The frigates of the TF-100 project are essentially an enlarged version of the Ada-type corvettes and are relatively small ships for their class with a standard displacement of 3,000 tons and a length of 113.2 m and a width of 14.4 m. The ceremony of the first steel cutting for the lead frigate of the TF-100 project (MILGEM-5 ship), named F 515 Istanbul, took place at Istanbul Naval Shipyard on January 19, 2017, and the official laying ceremony on July 3, 2017. The lead frigate was launched on January 23, 2021, and on June 20, 2023, a flag-raising ceremony was held at the shipyard on the frigate, after which the ship went to sea for the first time for factory sea trials.
Three serial frigates of this project, F 516 Izmir, F 517 Içel and F 518 Izmit (MILGEM-6 - MILGEM-8 ships), after several years of lobbying, were ordered in December 2022 to three different Turkish private shipyards, with a delivery period of 36 months - respectively Anadolu Shipyard (ADIK), Sedef Shipyard and Sefine Shipyard, - and officially laid down on them on the same day on April 10, 2023. On January 3, 2024, the Turkish Executive Committee of the Defense Industry (Savunma Sanayii Icra Komitesi - SSIK) approved the construction of four more Istanbul-type frigates for the Turkish navy (ships from MILGEM-9 to MILGEM-12).
The F 515 Istanbul frigate has four four-container launchers of Turkish Atmaca anti-ship missiles, a 16-charge Turkish universal launcher MIDLAS (Milli Dikey Atım Sistemi) for the placement of anti-aircraft guided missiles of the Hisar (SAPAN) series, a 76-mm universal artillery installation Leonardo Super Rapid (licensed by the Turkish company MKEK), Turkish 35 mm twin anti-aircraft artillery system Aselsan Gokdeniz, two 25 mm remotely operated artillery installations Aselsan STOP, two 324 mm three-tube torpedo tubes, a Sikorsky S-70B Seahawk helicopter permanently based in the hangar. Electronic weapons are also mainly Turkish-made.
Also commissioned by the Turkish Navy on January 19, the A 1590 Derya integrated supply ship was built at the Sefine Shipyard in Yalova. The contract for its construction was issued in July 2018, and the ship went to sea for testing on August 9, 2023. With a total displacement of more than 26 thousand tons and a length of 194.8 m, Derya became the second largest ship of the Turkish navy after the universal landing ship Anadolu.
Marine tanker A 575 Ütğm. Arif Ekmekçi is the second of two units of this type built by Ada Shipyard in Tuzla (Istanbul) under a contract issued in February 2021 by STM as the lead contractor. The lead tanker is A 574 Yzb. Gungör Durmuş was surrendered to the Turkish Navy on December 22, 2022. The second tanker is A 575 Ütğm. Arif Ekmekçi went to sea for testing on July 5, 2023. Tankers of this type have a length of 106.8 m and are capable of transporting 4,372 tons of various types of fuel and 631 tons of water.
The MARLIN prototype unmanned launch was jointly designed and built by Sefine Shipyard and Aselsan, and has been tested since the beginning of 2022. The boat has a length of 15 m, reaches speeds of up to 36 knots and is capable of carrying various weapons.
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Ships, vessels and boats of national Turkish construction, officially commissioned into the Turkish Navy at a ceremony on 01/19/2024 (c) SSB
