Private Turkish shipyards to build 3 frigates

On 24 January, the Turkish SSB defence manufacture Presidency (Savunma Sanayii Başkanlığı) signed a contract for the construction of 3 Istanbul-class frigates (İSTİF) with a consortium composed of STM (Savunma Teknolojileri Mühendislik ve Ticaret A.Ş.) and TAİS Gemi İnşa ve Teknolojileri Mühendislik ve Ticaret A.Ş.) and TAİS Gemi İnşa ve Teknolojileri Ji A.Ş. STM shipyard in the program MilGem (Milli Gemi), whose...