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Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Six Corvettes to Cost $1,5 Billions

Milgem class corvetteThe Defense Industry Executive Committee is expected to meet early next month to choose between two top Turkish shipyards, RMK Makina and Dearsan A.S., to build the last six corvettes in the multibillion dollar program to build eight new corvettes, dubbed the Milgem, a senior procurement official said over the weekend.

Members of Turkey’s top decision-making body on defense procurement include Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Defense Minister İsmet Yılmaz, Chief of General Staff Gen. Necdet Özel and the committee’s secretary, Murad Bayar, the head of the Undersecretariat for Defense Industries.

The committee usually meets three times a year on major procurement programs.

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