Turkey Signs $1B Deal for Landing Platform Dock

[Indus Falcon]

Turkey Signs $1B Deal for Landing Platform Dock
By Burak Ege Bekdil 4:02 p.m. EDT May 10, 2015

ANKARA, Turkey — The Turkish government announced it signed a nearly $ 1 billion deal with a local shipyard to produce the country's first Landing Platform Dock (LPD).

Turkey's procurement agency, the Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (SSM), said SSM and Sedef, a Turkish shipyard, agreed to pen the deal after contract negotiations.

SSM announced in December 2013 that it selected Sedef for the ambitious naval program. In the LPD contract, Sedef is partnered with Spain's Navantia.

The planned amphibious assault vessel will carry a battalion-sized unit of 1,200 troops and personnel, eight utility helicopters, three unmanned aerial vehicles and transport 150 vehicles, including battle tanks. It also will have an aircraft platform for vertical take off and landing. A ski jump at the front of the deck can be used to launch fighter aircraft.

Industry sources estimate the cost of the contract at close to $1 billion.

SSM said the 231-meter-long vessel will be completed by 2021. The LPD will deploy on the Aegean, the Black, and the Mediterranean seas, as well as on Turkish Navy's operations on the Atlantic and Indian oceans.

Turkey will be the third operator in the world of this ship type after Spain and Australia.

Turkey Signs $1B Deal for Landing Platform Dock

 

[Indus Falcon]

@Hakan @atatwolf Guys any more details?

 

[truthseeker2010]

Turkey signs contract with Navantia-Sedef for the construction of a Light Aircraft Carrier
The new vessel will be a version of the Spanish Landing Helicopter Dock Juan Carlos-I class

After more than a year of negotiations, Turkey has signed a contract for the construction of a Landing Platform Dock/Light Aircraft Carrier. The contract was signed between the Undersecretary of Defense Industries (SSM) and the Turkish shipbuilding company Sedef.

The new vessel is going to be a version of the Landing Helicopter Dock Juan Carlos I class, with a sky jump ramp and a front lift so that the Turkish ship can accommodate and operate F-35B Lighting II aircrafts.

The selection of the Spanish design was announced on 27 December 2013, while the main contractor is the Turkish shipyard Sedef. Although the Turkish Navy initially wanted a stripped down version of the Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) Juan Carlos I class, second thoughts led to a change of plans and the new version of the LHD will be able to carry 8-10 F-35B and 12 helicopters.

The Turkish ship will be equipped with a sky jump ramp and a front lift in order to accommodate the operation of the short take-off and vertical landing aircrafts.

Furthermore the Turkish light aircraft carrier is going to be equipped with several Turkish-made subsystems that will increase the national defense industry value.

The technical specifications of the Turkish landing platform dock/light aircraft carrier according to Sedef shipyards are:

• Length overall: 231 meters
• Maximum beam: 32 meters
• Draught: 6.8 meters
• Height: 58 meters
• Displacement: 24,660 tons (Light Aircraft Carrier) and 27,079 tons (as a LPD/LHD)
• Maximum speed: 21.5 knots (Light Aircraft Carrier) and 29 knots (as a LPD/LHD)
• Range: 9,000 miles @ economical speed
• Electric propulsion with two x 11 MW Siemens eSIPOD; five MAN 16V32/40 Diesel GenSets and two bow thrusters
• Complete hospital and sick bay.

The combat systems of the Turkish landing platform dock/light aircraft carrier are:

• Genesis ADVEnt CMS made by Turkish company Havelsan with 20 consoles made by Turkish company Milsoft-Ayesas with amphibious and joint operations capability
• Link 11/16/22/JRE/VMF
• One x SMART-S Mk2 3D Search Radar
• Two x LPI radars (Alper radar made by Turkish company Aselsan)
• Two x Navigation radars
• One x Air traffic and control radar
• One x PAR radar
• Four x 25mm STOP stabilized gun system made by Aselsan
• Three x 12.7mm STAMP stabilized gun system made by Aselsan
• Two Raytheon Phalanx 20mm CIWS
• One ARES-2N R-ESM system made by Aselsan
• Jammers made by Aselsan
• Kalkan Chaff/IR Decoy launching system made by Aselsan
• TORK torpedo countermeasure system made by Aselsan
• One AselFlir-300D IRST system made by Aselsan
• HF/VHF/UHF and satellite communication systems made by Aselsan

The Turkish landing platform dock/light aircraft carrier has:

• 5,440m² flight deck;
• 990m² aviation hanger and can accommodate either 12 medium size helicopters or 8 CH-47F Chinook. When the aviation hanger and the light cargo garage are unified the ship can carry up to 25 medium size helicopters. Alternatively the ship can carry 8-10 F-35B and 12 helicopters. Six more helicopters can be hosted on the flying deck of the ship;
• 1,880m² light cargo garage for TEU containers and 27 Amphibious Armed Vehicles (AAV);
• 1,165m² dock which can host four Landing Craft Mechanics (LCM) or two Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC), or two Landing Craft Personnel Vehicles (LCVP) and finally;
• 1,410m² garage for heavy loads, which can host 29 Main Battle Tanks Amphibious Armed Vehicles and TEU containers.

Turkish Navy LHD/Light Aircraft Carrier is to be designed for four mission profiles:

• Amphibious ship transporting a Marine Corps Force for landings and land support operations
• Force projection ship transporting Army forces to any theatre of operations
• Aircraft-carrier
• Non-combatant operations: humanitarian aid, evacuation from crisis zones and hospital-ship in catastrophe areas.

The will crew consists of 261 personnel: 30 officers, 49 NCOs, 59 leading seamen and 123 ratings. The cost of the construction of the vessel is 1 billion dollars, and the ship is to be be completed by 2021.

After australian canberra class, turkish also goes with spanish design

Turkey signs contract with Navantia-Sedef for the construction of a Light Aircraft Carrier - Plymouth University

 

[LordTyrannus]

this ship stationed in the persian gulf/qatar will be easy meat for iranian missile boats.

you should avoide to station that ship in qatar, until saudi and iran ceased their hostilities.

instead you should station this ship in the western med, as deterence against european naval powers.

 

[IR-TR]

Good good. Also for the industry to gain some experience. Question though guys: Mistral. France can't/won't sell them to Russia anymore. I'm hearing they can be bought for peanuts on the dollar. Sure, they're tailor made for Russia, but if you can get one for 100 million or little more, isn't it a gigantic plus? Are there any negotiations about this? On top of the Navantia models I mean.

 

[LordTyrannus]

Good good. Also for the industry to gain some experience. Question though guys: Mistral. France can't/won't sell them to Russia anymore. I'm hearing they can be bought for peanuts on the dollar. Sure, they're tailor made for Russia, but if you can get one for 100 million or little more, isn't it a gigantic plus? Are there any negotiations about this? On top of the Navantia models I mean.

Russian special OPS visited the "guarded" ROFLMAO ship at night and disabled the Russian software which was running all systems. The ship is useless now for everyone. But france dont tell that truth and searching for idiots who will buy that scrap metal.

anyone who wants to buy it, can search some iceberg in the arctis to hit it. and make movie titanic 2

lel

 

[cabatli_53]

Russian special OPS visited the "guarded" ROFLMAO ship at night and disabled the Russian software which was running all systems. The ship is useless now for everyone. But france dont tell that truth and searching for idiots who will buy that scrap metal.

anyone who wants to buy it, can search some iceberg in the arctis to hit it. and make movie titanic 2

lel

Ruski, What do you think about TN progress ? "The strongest naval power of Blacksea" claim is getting stronger day by day. How is the progress of your corvettes you were planning to build for your Blacsea fleet to counter What Turkey reveals ?

 

[LordTyrannus]

Ruski, What do you think about TN progress ? "The strongest naval power of Blacksea" claim is getting stronger day by day. How is the progress of your corvettes you were planning to build for your Blacsea fleet to counter What Turkey reveals ?

Black sea is a lake for a country the size of russia. Our black sea cost is full of missiles defence systems who can shot right through it.

Our interceptors are the fastest in service in the whole world. mach 3+.

lel

 

[cabatli_53]

Black sea is a lake for a country the size of russia. Our black sea cost is full of missiles defence systems who can shot right through it.

Our interceptors are the fastest in service in the whole world. mach 3+.

lel

but I am talking about Navy, not land based missiles. What does the strongest navy means for you ?

 

[BordoEnes]

this ship stationed in the persian gulf/qatar will be easy meat for iranian missile boats.

you should avoide to station that ship in qatar, until saudi and iran ceased their hostilities.

instead you should station this ship in the western med, as deterence against european naval powers.

Lol wat. You mean those civilian speedboats with unguided rockets? Please.

 

[LordTyrannus]

but I am talking about Navy, not land based missiles. What does the strongest navy means for you ?

The argument "strongest navy in the blacksea" means actualy nothing for me. ?

What have you expected??

Russia has a real Air carrier called Admiral Kuznetsov. Even that ship and its mighty fleet of Combat air superiority maritime aircraft is enough to blockade all your civilian ship transports from iskanderun. Add that to the desastrous situation in middle east and none of your consumer goods can reach their customers in the middle east anymore. That would be desastrous for your economy.

You can´t actually attack Kuznetsov because Washington will never allow that. in fear of WW3. I mean Putin is still in hope that he can reestablish good relations with parts of the western countries, because of delivery of consumer goods. But if he and his armed forces command loses this hope, than Putin will take more aggressive measures. I can´t see a paper tiger army like nato to stop determined russian armored troops.

I mean did you even watch the latest russian propaganda and our ww2 victory parade?

Look at our soldiers, they are smiling to face the heroic death to defend mother russia. Look in their faces. They don´t look like they care about nato and their puny unorganised forces.

Look.

Russia even under sanctions has enough political power to let azeri and armenian forces march together in our victory parade.

rofl.

all eurasian world is belong to us.

lel

 

[-SINAN-]

The argument "strongest navy in the blacksea" means actualy nothing for me. ?

What have you expected??

Russia has a real Air carrier called Admiral Kuznetsov. Even that ship and its mighty fleet of Combat air superiority maritime aircraft is enough to blockade all your civilian ship transports from iskanderun. Add that to the desastrous situation in middle east and none of your consumer goods can reach their customers in the middle east anymore. That would be desastrous for your economy.

You can´t actually attack Kuznetsov because Washington will never allow that. in fear of WW3. I mean Putin is still in hope that he can reestablish good relations with parts of the western countries, because of delivery of consumer goods. But if he and his armed forces command loses this hope, than Putin will take more aggressive measures. I can´t see a paper tiger army like nato to stop determined russian armored troops.

I mean did you even watch the latest russian propaganda and our ww2 victory parade?

Look at our soldiers, they are smiling to face the heroic death to defend mother russia. Look in their faces. They don´t look like they care about nato and their puny unorganised forces.

Look.

Russia even under sanctions has enough political power to let azeri and armenian forces march together in our victory parade.

rofl.

all eurasian world is belong to us.

lel

@flamer84 let's enjoy this post together my friend...

 

[atatwolf]

We don't need Mistral as long as Russia doesn't get it. Russian military upgrades at the black sea will all be canceled along with Armata since it is too expensive and it probably won't work anyway. Sanctions are doing a good job.

 

[LordTyrannus]

@flamer84 let's enjoy this post together my friend...

flamer has no true arguments. he always talks about russian opression vs his tiny irrelevant country romania. but in fact that was his own people like romanian dictator ceausescu who opressed him. Not russia.

russia does not give a crap about eastern european countries. they are insignificant transit countries in ww3. Russian armored divisions will march into berlin once again, if westerners threaten existence of russian nation.

 

[flamer84]

@flamer84 let's enjoy this post together my friend...

The dude is an obvious troll,i don't think he's even Russian.I am actually amused by his posts,he comes once in a while ,rants in a few threads about the illuminati and than gets banned.

flamer has no true arguments. he always talks about russian opression vs his tiny irrelevant country romania. but in fact that was his own people like romanian dictator ceausescu who opressed him. Not russia.

russia does not give a crap about eastern european countries. they are insignificant transit countries in ww3. Russian armored divisions will march into berlin once again, if westerners threaten existence of russian nation.

q.e.d.