Private Turkish shipyards will build 3 frigates

On 24 January, the Turkish SSB Defence manufacture Presidency (Savunma Sanayii Başkanlığı) signed a contract for the construction of 3 Istanbul frigates (İSTİF) with a consortium of STM (Savunma Teknolojileri Mühendislik ve Ticaret A.Ş.) and TAİS Gemi İnşa ve Teknoloji A.Ş. The STM shipyard in the MiLGEM programme (Milli Gemi), which...