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Monday, February 18, 2013

Yonca-Onuk offers new approach to combating piracy

ONUK MRTP22 |Turkish shipbuilder Yonca-Onuk says that fighting pirates with frigates is like hunting a rabbit with a main battle tank and is consequently offering smaller, faster and cheaper boats as more effective solutions to the scourge of piracy.

Ekber Onuk, Vice chairman of Yonca-Onuk, said that since the end of the Cold War, focus has shifted to brown water operations, which require relatively small, agile boats.

Piracy is a major threat at the moment and consequently Onuk have developed the ONUK MRTP24 “Kangal class” for escort duties.

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