Deliveries of the Reis class to the navy were due to begin this year, it looks like it will be delayed to 2023 due to Germany's stalling on a few issues. The Greek lobby is working hard on this.However, such inconsistencies led to the formation of alternative strategies on the SSB side as well. There are a few areas left, and it has been a long time since the European industry ceased to be the only alternative in those matters. Reis class will be the last submarine project worked with Germany and it is almost impossible for a German company to take a share in the MILDEN project. They mixed up a geopolitical issue that did not directly concern them, so amateurishly as to destroy an industrial relationship in their favor.
Apart from the Reis class, trial production for semi-autonomous midget submarines started this year. Gölcük shipyard command will have started production of MILDEN in their hangars immediately after REIS deliveries.
So actually, for the first time we are starting to run different submarine programs parallelly.
One of them will be a longer submarine than ever before, and possibly with a higher diving weight. This sub will have a strategic attack capability on land and will have a special propulsion solution, similar to what the Japanese did. On the other line, a midget-class attack submarine is being developed, which we have not preferred until now, and possibly completely customized for inland seas(Islands sea especially), so developed for use as a direct submarine hunter and for special infiltration operations.
Among other areas, developments in submarine projects confirm that 'naval expansion will begin in the 2030s', which we have determined many times here before.
