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1 week ago | 
navalnews.com | Tayfun Ozberk
At the Indodefence 2025 exhibition held in Jakarta between 11–14 June, Indonesia’s leading defence company REPUBLIKORP (with local shipyard PT Palindo Marine) presented a scale model of a naval fleet at its booth. The display featured a notional aircraft carrier, a stealth corvette, a compact submarine, a fast attack craft, and an unmanned surface vehicle (USV).
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1 week ago | 
navalnews.com | Tayfun Ozberk
The company signed a major contract with Kuwait to supply eight Falaj-3 class corvettes, marking ADSB’s largest-ever export deal. Valued at approximately USD 2.45 billion, the contract positions Edge Group as the prime contractor, with ADSB responsible for the construction of all vessels and the integration of onboard weapons and sensors, according to AlRousi.
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1 week ago | 
navalnews.com | Tayfun Ozberk
Leonardo press releaseLeonardo and Baykar will be equal shareholders (50% each) in the new company, named LBA Systems, which will have its legal and operational headquarters in Italy. The Joint Venture leverages strong industrial synergies and will encompass the design, development, production, and maintenance of unmanned aerial systems (UAS). “Today we sign a new strategic international alliance, establishing a key player in the field of unmanned technologies.
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1 week ago | 
navalnews.com | Tayfun Ozberk
The contract marked a significant milestone in the implementation of the Replacement of the Netherlands Submarine Capability (RNSC) program.
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2 weeks ago | 
navalnews.com | Tayfun Ozberk
Forum Energy Technologies press releaseForum Energy Technologies, Inc. announced today that it executed a contract to supply a state-of-the-art submarine rescue vehicle system (SRV) for use by the Indonesian Navy. The contract comprises an SRV, a launch and recovery system, and a decompression system.The contract comprises an SRV, a launch and recovery system, and a decompression system.
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2 weeks ago | 
navalnews.com | Tayfun Ozberk
The OKHAN USV was initially unveiled at the DIMDEX 2024 exhibition in Doha, Qatar. Following its debut, the company began working with the Turkish Coast Guard to tailor the platform specifically for law enforcement and maritime security operations. A live demonstration of the vessel was conducted in January 2025, with the participation of officials from the Turkish Coast Guard.
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4 weeks ago | 
navalnews.com | Tayfun Ozberk
The Turkish Ministry of Defence announced the launch of the third Reis-class submarine on social media, sharing photos of the vessel as it touched the water at Gölcük Naval Shipyard. “MURATREİS, the third of the six Reis-class submarines under construction at our Directorate of Shipyards’ Gölcük Shipyard Command, was launched on the 572nd anniversary of the Conquest of Istanbul.”Turkish MoD X accountMuratreis, the second submarine of the project, was dry-docked on 07 June 2024.
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1 month ago | 
navalnews.com | Tayfun Ozberk
The live-fire test, conducted during the Distinguished Observers Day activities of the exercise, marked the first shipborne strike by the Bayraktar TB3 UCAV from aboard the TCG Anadolu. Two TB3s, tail numbers PT-3 and PT-4, took off from Keşan (approximately 190 km west of Istanbul) and flew around 600 km to embark on TCG Anadolu on May 9, 2025. The drones carried out an attack on a land target on Devecitaşı Island in the Eastern Mediterranean on May 14, 2025.
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1 month ago | 
navalnews.com | Tayfun Ozberk
The company announced the development on LinkedIn that the Octopulse underwater electromagnetic sensor is now mounted on a crawler to detect seabed and buried threats near subsea cables and pipelines during the SeaSEC25 (Seabed Security Experimentation Center) Challenge. At the core of the collaboration between ROYAL IHC and Elwave is a high-end seabed crawler equipped with Elwave’s Octopulse sensor, powered by the biomimicry-based CEDAR® (Controlled Electric Detection and Ranging) technology.
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1 month ago | 
navalnews.com | Tayfun Ozberk
The company announced the start of sea trials by sharing a video on its social media channels. The footage captures the deployment of the ARİDA-M from its hangar to the sea, followed by the USV proceeding at high speed. “We are continuing sea trials with ARİDA-M, Türkiye’s first fully indigenous autonomous USV, and preparing for the demonstration phase of Phase-1.
