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Turkish Submarine MİLDEN's Construction to Start in 2025 | TURDEF

Chief of the Turkish Navy Ercüment Tatlıoğlu has stated that the construction of MİLDEN national submarines will begin in 2025.

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Milden construction to start in 2025 as disclosed whilst the first Reis Class is being accepted in to naval forces inventory.
Turkish Navy’s real indigenisation of submarine program is to start as a whole from design to finished article, as the MILDEN submarine will be Turkish through and through.
Milden will be the epitome of self sufficiency of Turkish navy in submarines.
As local companies are working on Hydrogen based solutions for the power systems it is expected that a form of AIP based power and drive system is to be utilised in Milden. But as the seas surrounding Turkish mainland are deep enough to support nuclear submarines, a nuclear powered sub can not be excluded either.

 

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TF-2000 Hava Savunma Muhribi için beklenen açıklama geldi | SavunmaSanayiST

Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan, TF-2000 Hava Savunma Harbi Muhribi hakkında kritik bir açıklamada bulundu. TF-2000'in inşa faaliyetlerinin yakında başlaması bekleniyor.

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Finally The President has disclosed that the long awaited construction work on the TF2000 destroyer is to start shortly in İstanbul shipyards.
Although 4 x TF2000 program was first planned to be the 9th to 12th ships of the Milgem series, with the decision of producing 4 more I-Class frigates these slots were given to the İstanbul Class frigates. In stead the 4 x TF2000 destroyers will be the 13th to 16th MILGEM ships of the series.
First of these ships is expected to be in the inventory by 2030.

 

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[Khagan1923]

Gonna some numbers out my behind for short while but if we say that entering the 2030s the Navy has;

2x TF-2000 (192 Cells)
8x Istif (128 Cells)
4x MLU MEKO-200 TNII (48 Cells)
2x Hisar OPV with 1x4(?) MIDLAS for Sapan (8 Cells)
4x Gabya (32 Cells)

they will have a VLS cell count of 408, not taking into account possible VLS cells on MILDEN if those even make it until then into the inventory of the Navy. Maybe Ada-Class MLU will also see VLS be added though I suppose the MLU for Ada will not happen before the early-mid 2030s.

By mid 2030s the Turkish Navy could have upwards of 600 VLS cells in its inventory Rivaling the UK and outnumbering countries such as France and Italy, of course they too will built and are building new ships and will see their VLS cell count grow.

Nevertheless in the near future the Turkish Navy will rival if not even outnumber other "Major" navies in VLS cell count.

Just as comparison, the Navy currently has 86 VLS Cells with TCG Istanbul.

In ten years that number could see itself be multipled by 10 depending on how many TF-2000 they are able to produce in the next 10 years (4-8) and if the 96 Cells are finalized.

 

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Just curiosity, at future, can we see 4 çakır in one encapsulated container. If çakır dimension reduced slightly, 4 can be packed. For example 2 çakır lir , 2 çakır as. Or 4 çakır sw.

This may not be possible but it doesn't hold us back from thinking Çakır in Orka - kind capsule. If Roketsan pulls self propelled capsule tech for Atmaca and apply it to Orka, we may get our UUV / USV to utilize.

 

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Gezgin cant use the same capsule with Sub Atmaca as there is a huuuge difference in size. But we can say for sure tjat the capsule from ceremony is for Sub Atmaca and probably Hisar Derin

Hisar Derin is a project of Aselsan and i doubt if it is alive. Meanwhile Navy has alternative plans and missiles to deploy for submarine based SAM.

 

[Oublious]

I assume this is Amerkom, so they did started the design phase of the AC. Looks like we are going to make Hurjet more then it is, otherwhise this will be a expensive DC Drone Carrier.