Turkey: Anadolu Shipyard Signs Supply Contracts for LST Project

Anadolu Shipyard has organized a ceremony to sign three contracts with the most important suppliers of its Landing Ship Tank (LST) project.

The signatories of the supply contracts with the shipyard are ASELSAN, HAVELSAN and İŞBİR Elektrik, all of them companies of Turkish Armed Forces Foundation.

Based on the contract, previously signed with Turkish SSM (Undersecretariat of Defense Industries), the shipyard has been entrusted with building of two LSTs.

The new generation Landing Ship Tanks are fast amphibious vessels of upper-intermediate size with significant armament power. LSTs will play a major role of power projection with transporting huge quantities of fire support elements and marines in order to conduct amphibious operations.

The responsibility of the project’s design, construction, system integration, performance and timely delivery is shouldered by Anadolu Deniz İnşaat Kızakları Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş.

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Press Release, May 29, 2013; Image: ADIK