Tayfun Ozberk

1 week 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.

3 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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.

4 weeks 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.

1 month ago | navalnews.com | Tayfun Ozberk

The US Department of State has approved the potential sales of close to 200 Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (in various variants) to the Netherlands under FMS (Foreign Military Sale) program, according to a US DSCA’s (Defense Security Cooperation Agency) announcement made on April 25, 2025. The total cost of the program is estimated to be $2.19 billion.