Industry
Turkey’s STM wins tender for Pakistani corvettes
Gabriel Dominguez, London - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly
05 July 2018
Turkey’s STM has won a tender to provide four Ada (MILGEM)-class corvettes (similar to this one seen here in Turkish service) to the PN, state news service Anadolu Agency reported on 5 July. Source: Pakistan Armed Forces Inter Services Public Relations Directorate
Turkish defence engineering firm Savunma Teknolojileri Mühendislik ve Ticaret (STM) has won a tender to provide four Ada (MILGEM)-class corvettes to the Pakistan Navy (PN), according to a 5 July report by Turkish state news service Anadolu Agency (AA).
“This will be largest single export in the history of the Turkish defence industry,” National Defence Minister Nurettin Canikli was quoted by AA as saying that same day during an official visit to Montenegro.
Canikli said the two sides have agreed to build two of the warships at Turkey’s Istanbul Shipyard while the remaining two will be constructed in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi.
The announcement was made after Pakistan’s Karachi Shipyard & Engineering Works Limited (KSEW) signed a letter of intent (LOI) with STM in May 2017 for the construction of the vessels.
According to Jane's Fighting Ships , the Ada class has a full-load displacement of 2,032 tonnes, a draught of 3.6 m, and a beam of 14.4 m.
Armament on the 99 m-long platforms includes a 76 mm naval gun, four (two twin) 324 mm torpedo tubes, eight (two quadruple) launchers for anti-ship missiles, and one RIM-116 close-in weapon system.