ISTANBUL — Turkey will construct 3 vessels for the Royal Malaysian Navy under the latter’s Littoral Objective Ship Batch 2 Job as part of an offer signed by the 2 countries.
This marks the very first time Malaysia has actually signed a government-to-government contract to obtain defense devices.
The nations tattooed the offer at an event Monday, throughout which Turkish defense market chief Haluk Görgün and Malaysian Defence Minister Mohamed Khaled Nordin stated STM will construct the littoral objectives ships in Turkey.
“Throughout the modification of the ships, items from a variety of Turkish defense market companies, consisting of Havelsan, Aselsan and Roketsan, will be utilized. I completely think that the LMS Batch 2 Job is simply the start of long-lasting cooperations on marine platforms in between the 2 nations,” Görgün stated.
STM’s basic supervisor, Özgür Güleryüz, stated that following deal with marine platforms for the Pakistan Navy, the company is now concentrated on continuing the building of 2 corvettes for Ukraine.
Güleryüz included that building for Malaysia’s ships will start in 2024, with the prepared shipment to occur in 3 and a half years.
As part of the job, STM will build and gear up the ships in Turkey with substantial involvement from other regional defense business, consisting of equipping them with the 30mm Muhafiz remote regulated supported weapon system; the Cenk 3D search radar; the Ares electronic support group; the Akrep fire control radar; a chaff decoy system; a recognition pal or enemy system; and other electronic sensing units.
Furthermore, the ships will be geared up with the Atmaca anti-ship rocket established by Roketsan, and the fight management system and 76mm weapon fire control system established by Havelsan. There was no details about air defense rockets.
The requirements of the ships are:
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Length: 99.56 meters
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Width: 14.42 meters
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Draft: 3.94 meters
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Displacement: about 2,500 heaps
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Optimum speed: about 26 knots
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Travelling speed: 14 knots
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Variety: 4000-plus nautical miles at 14 knots
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Worker capability: 111
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Stamina: 2 week