Speaking at a weekly press briefing in Ankara on December 4, officials from the Turkish Ministry of National Defense confirmed that Türkiye is now cutting steel and assembling the first blocks of its indigenous MILDEN diesel-electric attack submarine at Gölcük Naval Shipyard, shifting the long-running design effort into a full industrial phase. The announcement, paired with the recent start of construction on the first TF 2000 air defense destroyer in Istanbul and a 6.5 billion dollar package of Steel Dome contracts, underlines a deliberate push to anchor future fleet growth in domestic shipyards, sensors, and weapons rather than imported architectures. Read more.
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| MILDEN is presented as a diesel-electric attack submarine of around 2,700 tons with a length of more than 80 meters, integrating an air-independent propulsion system designed to prolong submerged operations without using the snorkel.(Picture source: Turkish MoD) |