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Test Production Of STM500’s Pressure Hull Completed

The test production of the pressure hull of “We set out to design a national ability of the Turkish defence
the STM500, Türkiye’s first special opera- submarine as a result of the sector to indigenously develop
tions and attack national submarine, has
been successfully completed, marking the experience acquired from the such sections for a naval sub-
first time a private company in Türkiye has construction and modernisation marine,” said Güleryüz.
domestically manufactured the pressure projects that we have carried
hull sections of a military submarine. Speaking about the high export po-
out for the Navies of Türkiye and tential of the STM500, Güleryüz said:
The pressure hull of STM500 is being show- Pakistan. By means of our inno- “Representatives of the navies
cased for the first time at SAHA Expo. vative R&D approach and our of various countries, particu-
own resources, we have been larly those with geographical-
In line with the strategic objective set for
it for the “design and development of the able to design the STM500, the ly shallow waters, are close-
industrial infrastructure required for the first special operations and at- ly following the development
construction of naval submarines with na- tack national submarine in our
tional means”, STM Savunma Teknolojileri of the STM500. Among the
Mühendislik ve Ticaret A.Ş. – a developer country. We then rolled up our outstanding features of the
of national and modern systems within the sleeves to start working on the STM500 are its lower price tag
Turkish defence sector has passed another design and production of the with respect to conventional
key milestone in Türkiye’s national subma- pressure hull of the submarine,
rine production adventure. naval submarines, and its abil-
described as the outer surface ity to be deployed for special
The test section production of the pressure by the civilian industry, which forces operations through its
hull of the STM500 was started in June is something never before at- swimmer delivery vehicle. Our
2022.
tempted in Türkiye. We have aim is to equip the STM500 with
Commenting on the milestone, Özgür now come to the point where the national combat systems
Güleryüz, General Manager of STM, stated we have successfully produced technologies being produced
that STM was the first engineering company the first test block using nation-
in Türkiye to gain the capacity to design, by Turkish defence companies,
build and modernise submarines. al resources, demonstrating the thus demonstrating the power

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