Turkey is going to build mini-submarines, inspired by the success of its UAVs

Today, Turkey is one of the world leaders in the construction of unmanned aerial vehicles. Turkish UAVs have proven themselves well in Libya, Syria, and Nagorno-Karabakh. Now Ankara, inspired by the success dronesdecided to repeat history at sea: Turkish engineers are developing mini-submarines. They will be able to work in the so-called. "Blue Homeland", as in Turkey they call the seas surrounding it.

Expert Kozan Seljuk Erkan recently noted that the construction of submarines is a "quiet and deep process" that fully corresponds to the very spirit of the submarine. According to the expert, Turkey has now reached a much higher level in the construction of submarines. Commenting on the development of mini-submarines, Erkan stressed that small submarines will be more difficult to develop, as too many subsystems will be required in small volumes. However, he noted that the Turkish shipbuilding industry is able to cope with this task.

According to the expert, the mini-submarine, codenamed STM-500, developed by the Turkish company STM, will become a platform on which the functionality of domestic parts and equipment will be tested. Now Turkey's task is to achieve the ability to produce weapons on its own, so as not to depend on international supplies, which can be stopped at any moment. The story of the F-35 plane showed Ankara that you should not count too much on foreign partners, even if you are in a military-political alliance with them.

Erkan describes mini-submarines as "powerful long-range vehicles that can stay submerged for long periods of time". At the same time, the expert emphasizes, Turkey needs submarines to operate in near waters, including in shallow seas.

Also, as the expert notes, in recent years, Turkey has risen to the top league of military shipbuilding, its products may become in demand abroad. For example, in the field of UAVs, the country has achieved impressive success and immediately reached the top positions in the global UAV market. In the field of mini-submarines, the same future can await her. Small submarines can be in demand not only by the Turkish Navy, but also fleets those countries that cannot yet afford very expensive large submarines. There is a request for submarines from many countries of the world, but not all of them are able to buy a large submarine.

At the same time, the emergence of relatively cheap mini-submarines on the world market may become an additional risk to global security, since such boats can be acquired by various countries of the world, and it is possible that radical groups operating in the Middle East or North Africa, also want to have similar mini-submarines.

Comments

[mojohed2012]

Well, why, for example, unmanned small submarines have no prospects? In the United States, autonomous destroyers are already being launched.
Only here is how the Turks will transmit control signals to these boats in the water column.
And so - you can cheaply make areas of naval defense in a matter of hours and without large boats and concentration of manpower on ships.

[Aerodrome]

Turkey is going to build mini-submarines, inspired by the success of its UAVs

I see so ... they will do it. and fighters will do, and UAVs. simply because they advanced, they sensed the forces. they won’t chew snot for 15 years like ours, in “drones” we are specifically behind. even in engines ... another breakthrough ..

[no better place for]

With the development of AI, you can simply set the area to patrol with the destruction of everything that floats there. Well, your alien system will protect your own. So offhand. There are smarter people

[Ratmir_Ryazan]

Because it is impossible to control a submarine remotely underwater.

But an unmanned surface ship can be made, and they are being made.

Russia, too, would not be bothered by mini-submarines in the Baltic and the Black Sea. Something like "Piranha", so that saboteurs could be landed even in shallow water and attack the ship with a torpedo or rocket and put a mine.

[OgnennyiKotik]

So they and ULAQ unmanned surface boats did and tested. Looks like they were planning to buy them. A number of projects of this kind are in development.

[Thrifty]

Fiery cat - compare, for example, our Karakurts and FREMM-type frigates! I'm talking about the "necessity" of mass buildings of mini-submarines. These are good but useless products in a real war that will simply become disposable ...

[Alien From]

And they will build it! They are stubborn guys, and access to Western technology plays for them.

[tralflot1832]

If Eun manages, why can't the Sultan. It's ideal to roam between the islands in the Aegean Sea.

[Cat Alexandrovich]

... and the smaller these mini-submarines are, the more entertaining!

[gridasov]

And they will build and be leaders. They understand exactly how to win leadership. At the same time, the absence of a mechanism for gaining leadership in the production of an innovative product in the post-Soviet countries is clearly manifested. They still live on an outdated paradigm.

[Aerodrome]

Quote: gridasov

And they will build and be leaders. They understand exactly how to win leadership. At the same time, the absence of a mechanism for gaining leadership in the production of an innovative product in the post-Soviet countries is clearly manifested. They still live on an outdated paradigm.

as Comrade Gridasov rightly said ... he didn’t always agree with you, but here he’s 100.

[gridasov]

Even before the production of Drones, I was in the suburbs of Istanbul and noticed, in some way, open workspaces during snacks, which is a very active and businesslike atmosphere around. We then promoted our developments. But it didn't work out. Therefore, the Turks lack only breakthrough ideas, but the rest of the infrastructure and administrative conditions are at the most favorable level for innovators.

[TermNachTer]

What else Erdogan is not going to build? Lunar station?

[viktortarianik]

So Erdogan lives on Earth and not on the Moon.

[Aerodrome]

no...just the Empire.

[sen]

Turkey is going to build mini-submarines, inspired by the success of its UAVs

Can be used as slaves (similar to UAVs) so as not to risk the main submarine with people.

[gridasov]

If there were more competent specialists in Russia and understood that propellers are not an optimized device, and we offer exactly a new type of propulsion device that no one can think of, then dominance in this topic would be ensured for a very long time. But as it is regularly discovered, it is easier to steal than to invest in incomprehensible projects. But at the same time, genius is always combined with incomprehensibility, in the first moments, and without justification.

[Aerodrome]

Quote: gridasov

If there were more competent specialists in Russia and understood that propellers are not an optimized device, and we offer exactly a new type of propulsion device that no one can think of, then dominance in this topic would be ensured for a very long time. But as it is regularly discovered, it is easier to steal than to invest in incomprehensible projects. But at the same time, genius is always combined with incomprehensibility, in the first moments, and without justification.

I remember they laughed at you here on the site ...

[gridasov]

Firstly, I quickly begin to feel an infertile environment for my initiatives. And if I continue to stay in this environment, it is only because of some research motivations. And secondly, I treat criticism as an opportunity to hear a third-party and reasonable judgment
But, during my stay there were no such cases. There is a lot of rudeness, disrespect for an alternative judgment. Therefore, I found platforms for more favorable discussions. In addition, one should not forget that my motivating actions in what I am trying, sort of like giving solutions to topical issues, are not based on mercantile interests associated with established ideas.

[TermNachTer]

To build underwater UAVs, you need to have the appropriate technology, and the Turks, apart from the immoderate ambitions of their Fuhrer, have nothing else.

[neurostimulator]

The road will be mastered by the walking one. Which can't help but worry right now.

[Amateur]

Erkan describes mini-submarines as "powerful long-range vehicles that can stay underwater for long periods."

Is it like a "mini-supermarket"?
Interestingly, such technical nonsense is the difficulty of translating or the writings of the modern Karl Hieronymus von Munchausen?

[Hitriy Zhuk]

Quote: gridasov

If Russia had more competent specialists

So become by this specialist.

[agond]

Turkey does not need large or even medium submarines, and for operations in the Black and Aegean Seas, a mini is enough, and then a mini boat is an order of magnitude more difficult to detect simply because it is small, which means it is secretive, and even if you find it, try to hit, because a mini the boat can be inexpensively equipped with lithium-ion batteries and it will be able to perform a quick anti-torpedo maneuver, it can simply lie down on the bottom, since the depths there allow at least off the coast of Turkey. By the way, Iranian diesel-electric submarines of the "Gadir" type have an underwater displacement of only 125 tons, but they have 2 classic 533 mm torpedo tubes with torpedoes of 7.5 m, that is, our Caliber will fit in such an apparatus., And such a small boat can be almost entirely made of titanium, meanwhile titanium, the best alloy, has a yield strength of about 70 kg per square millimeter, and for maragenic steel, the one from which the MIR deep-sea submersibles were made is 150.kg / mm2, although earlier this steel was in severe shortage, but now it can probably be used for a small boat