Speaking on Unmanned Marine Vehicles at the International Maritime Security and Defense Conference held in Hamburg, Germany on 7-9 September 2022, ARES Shipyard General Manager Utku Alanç gave place to the new surface warfare configuration for the ULAQ Armed Unmanned Naval Vehicle.
In the configuration that includes anti-ship/cruise missiles and RCWS, the ROKETSAN ÇAKIR cruise missile appears as a strong candidate. A concept previously existed for a surface configuration of the ULAQ family that could be equipped with anti-ship missiles of higher size and tonnage.
The new design draws attention with its lower silhouette than the first shared design for the surface warfare configuration. There is also a parallelism with the FAMB series gunboats of ARES Shipyard in terms of the placement of weapon systems. Given the size of the launcher, the new configuration is likely to have a length of close to 24 m. The low silhouette new design can be considered as a new option for attrition attacks due to the difficulty of detection and being unmanned.
In the future, it is planned to develop versions of the ULAQ Armed Unmanned Naval Vehicle that can perform tasks such as DSH (Submarine Defense Warfare), Mine Hunting, Electronic Warfare, Intelligence-Observation-Reconnaissance. Fire tests of the port defense configuration, equipped with the prototype equipped with the ROKETSAN YALMAN gun turret and the KORALP 12.7mm RCWS, which share the same hull design, have been conducted so far.
Domestic diesel marine engine to ULAQ SİDA
TÜMOSAN, which was established in 1976 to produce motor propulsion, transmission organs and similar equipment and is the first diesel engine manufacturer in Turkey, stated that it had developed a domestic diesel marine engine for ULAQ SİDA. In this context, in the statement made on the official Twitter account of TÜMOSAN, “We are involved in many projects with the Presidency of Defense Industries for the protection of our homeland. Our domestic diesel marine engine will be used in the Armed Unmanned Marine Vehicle (SİDA), the first platform of the “ULAQ” series developed by ARES Shipyard.” statements were made.
ULAQ to be Exported to Europe
Oğuzhan Pehlivanlı, Deputy General Manager of Ares Shipyard; When asked by Naval News about the interest in ULAQ from foreign countries, “I am pleased to announce that there are European end-user country candidates for ULAQ. Final negotiations with the two countries, which are about to be completed, will be concluded soon. I think our deals will be announced in the first months of 2022.” had answered.
Source: defenceturk
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