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« em: Novembro 24, 2004, 12:22:28 am »
Turkey Launches its First Indigenous Coastal Minesweeper

By AMI INTERNATIONAL INC.

The first Turkish indigenous coastal minesweeper (MSC), Amasra (M-266), was launched May 10 at Istanbul Naval Shipyard. The follow-on units of the Aydin class, M-267 and M-268, are under construction at Istanbul with the final two units of the class, M-269 and M-270, starting in 2005.

The first unit, Alanya (M-265), built in Germany by the Abeking & Rasmussen and Lurssen Werft Consortium and launched on March 21, 2003, will be commissioned by the end of the year. All six MSCs are being built under a July 30, 1999, $625 million contract.

The contract called for the first unit to be built in Germany with the five follow-on units built in Turkey in order to expand its shipbuilding capabilities. Istanbul Naval Shipyard can now add mine warfare vessels to Turkey’s portfolio of indigenously constructed ships.
 

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« Responder #1 em: Janeiro 20, 2005, 06:43:36 pm »
Turkey Selects the ATR-72 ASW for its Navy
 
 
(Source: Alenia Aeronautica; issued Jan. 20, 2005)
 
 
 ROME --- Alenia Aeronautica, a Finmeccanica company, has been selected by the Undersecreteriat for Defence Industries of Turkey for the supply to the Navy of ten ATR-72 ASW (Anti Submarine Warfare) aircraft, which will carry out maritime patrol and anti-submarine surveillance missions.  
 
The negotiations start for the contract finalisation is due shortly.  
 
The ATR-72s for Turkey, provided with a mission system by the Thales company, are a special version, developed by Alenia Aeronautica, of the commercial transport ATR 72/500 aircraft.  
 
The ASW version, conceived for a cost-competitive medium range aircraft, is capable of carrying out anti-submarine missions, with the integration of the maritime patrol functions already implemented by the ATR42 MP, the Maritime Patrol version currently in force within the Italian Guardia di Finanza (Customs Police) and the Coast Guard.  
 
“This success,” states Giorgio Zappa, Finmeccanica's Chief Operating Officer and Alenia Aeronautica' Chairman and Chief Executive Officer “is particularly rewarding for us since Turkey is a highly qualified Country in its choices of technological products and in the defence field. Considering the already very good relationship between Italy and Turkey, the ATR72 selection means a great deal for the Finmeccanica Group's future successes and, at the same time, funds the basis for further international collaborations with the Thales Group and the Turkish industry. Special thanks go to the extraordinary and effective support action of the Italian Government, which confirms the new strategy of Italian trade within the international scenario.”  
 
In Turkey Alenia Aeronautica is also responsible for the promotion of the Eurofighter Typhoon, the European fighter manufactured by the Italian company together with BAE Systems and EADS. The programme involves 400 companies and 120thousand employees in Europe.  
 
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