Signature Ceremony of Contract for Acqusition of MILGEM Project Prototype Ship Design Services and Platform Construction and Outfitting Equipment and Services (April 9th, 2007)
In this case, Contract for Acqusition of MILGEM Project Prototype Ship Design Services and Platform Construction and Outfitting Equipment and Services for all packages has been signed in SSM on April 9, 2007 with a ceremony, which the Commander of Turkish Naval Forces, Admiral Yener KARAHANOĞLU, participated in.
As known, Patrol and Anti-Submarine Warfare Ship to be procured within the scope of MILGEM Project will be first nationally designed war ship. In further steps of the project, additionally 11 (eleven) ships are planned to be built in Turkish Ship Yards. Local content in the sub-sytems of MILGEM ships will be increased in each procurement step. MILGEM class corvette has already state of the art technology. Therefore, a lot of countries will be intending to procure this ships and in the future, MILGEM class corvettes are supposed to be export product

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