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Turkey signs deal to sell 4 MILGEM
corvettes to Pakistan
Pakistan and Turkey signed a contract
for the procurement of four MILGEM
Ada corvettes for the Pakistan Navy.
A presentation was made about the
contract and the four corvettes to be sold
before the signing ceremony. Two of the
corvettes will be built at Istanbul, while
the remaining two will be constructed at
Karachi.
Pakistan and Turkey signed
the contract for the sale of four
Milgem Corvettes. Şuay Alpay,
Deputy Minister of National
Defense and Chairman of Askeri
Fabrika ve Tersane İşletme
Anonim Şirketi (ASFAT),
Yunus Emre Karaosmanoglu,
Deputy Undersecretary of
the Ministry of Defense and
Deputy Chairman of ASFAT,
Ambassador Basat Öztürk,
Assistant Undersecretary of the
Ministry of Defense and Board
Member of ASFAT, Rear Admiral
Erdinç Yetkin, commander of
Istanbul Shipyard, and İhsan
Mustafa Yurdakul, Ambassador
of Turkey in Islamabad attended
the signing ceremony held in the
Defense Production Ministry in
Rawalpindi as representatives of
Republic of Turkey.
A presentation was made
about the contract and the four
corvettes to be sold before the
signing ceremony. During the
presentation, it was stated that the
first talks for the purchase of the
corvettes were made in 2015 and
lasted 12 days, and the contract
was signed in 2017.
It was decided to build two of
the corvettes at Istanbul Naval
Shipyard, while the remaining
two will be constructed at Karachi
Shipyard & Engineering Works.
At the first stage, one corvette
to be built in Istanbul and one
in Karachi will be acquired by
Pakistani Naval Forces in 2023
and the other two corvettes in
2024.
The first corvette will be built
in 54 months from the current
date, with the remaining three
due within 60, 66 and 72 months,
respectively.
The corvettes, which will be able
to cruise uninterruptedly for 15
days, will be 99.56 meters long
and 14.42 meters wide with a
maximum speed of 26 knots.
Milgem type corvettes are capable
of playing an active role in battles,
intelligence gathering, patrol and
search and rescue activities. The
agreement also requires sharing
engineering information and
providing an engineering training
accordingly.
The agreement was signed by
Yunus Emre Karaosmanoğlu
representing Turkey and Major
General Arşad Mahmut,
General Director of Production
of Ammunition of the Ministry
of National Defense and by Rear
Admiral Ather Selim,commander
of Karachi Shipyard representing
Pakistan.