An ambitious program to procure six modern submarines and build 12 corvettes, together worth nearly $4 billion, forms the backbone of the Turkish Navy’s modernization plans over the next 10 years.
Turkey has scrapped earlier plans for a considerable upgrade of its older Ay-class submarines and instead has opted to jointly build with a foreign manufacturer six air-independent propulsion submarines, a project estimated at nearly $2.5 billion.
Germany’s HDW-MFI, France’s Armaris, Spain’s Navantia, Italy’s Fincantieri and the United States’ Lockheed Martin replied to a Turkish request for information on the program by March 6.
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