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The Turkish Defense Industry Agency is working on a new
'game-changing' unmanned surface vehicle (USV) project that will
take the country to the top in the sector, Yeni Shafak daily
reports.
MIR, dubbed as Admiral of domestic and national USVs, will be
one of the platforms that, with its technological characteristics
and military capabilities, will change the game. As Turkiye's new
major protagonist in the production of unmanned sea vehicles, MIR
has led the country to the top in this industry.
Although Turkiye has produced both armed and unarmed unmanned
naval vehicles recently, MIR USV differs from them in terms of its
capabilities. Experts made remarkable statements about the
technical features and warfare capabilities of MIR USV.
TRT Haber claims that employing USVs of diverse concepts in a
flock is a capability that only a few nations around the globe
possess. In fact, this is one of the reasons why the Defense
Industries Agency usually concentrates on this initiative. The
'herd USV' strategy, implemented as a defense industry project, not
only propels Turkiye to the champions' league in this sector but
also grants the nation the privilege of playing at the top of the
league.
Cigdem Sen Ozer, ASELSAN Unmanned Land, and Surface Vehicles
Program Manager, stated that Turkiye was already able to use the
same type of USV platforms in droves prior to MIR, reminding their
quadruple mission with ALBATROS USVs of the same type that was
performed recently. She added that the platforms in question are
seven meters long, however, MIR USV is 15 meters long and far more
sophisticated.
'Thus, for the first time in our country, we were able to use
unmanned surface vehicles with different mission structures in the
same activity. This is a very important breaking point,' she
stressed.
Underlining ASELSAN's competence in this sphere, Ozer emphasized
the extremely high level of autonomy of the platforms in
question.
To put it differently, ALBATROS and MIR USV can share tasks
'with a common mind' by cooperating to fulfill the given duties
effectively. Even if they come across an obstruction, the
platforms, which are in continual contact with each other and with
the center, loop around and travel directly to their targets after
overcoming them. Alternatively, if contact is lost during the
assignment, it can employ autonomous driving and artificial
intelligence skills to successfully perform the task assigned to
it, she added.
According to Ozer, the KIRLANGIC camera is one of ASELSAN's
exceptionally high technology items used at the MIR USV platform.
The USV's environmental awareness is enhanced by the
high-resolution image-capable camera.
While mentioning the products developed by ASELSAN, Ozer opens a
separate parenthesis for the communication capabilities of the
platform. Currently, it is very valuable that defense industry
products work in environments with electronic jamming, she said,
adding that MIR USV is well-equipped in this regard as well.
'In addition, MIR USV has a Karetta system developed by ASELSAN
to receive signals of the correct Global Positioning System under
interference. MIR USV also has a unique communication system and
has quite different types of communication options, namely,
satellite communication and 4G LTE if desired. We have the means of
communication via GSM networks, and we have the ability to operate
within the borders of Blue Homeland without any communication
interruption,” Ozer emphasized.
The MIR USV platform is constructed at the Sefine Shipyard in
Yalova province, which is undergoing a significant shift in terms
of producing military products in civilian shipyards, with the
coordination of Turkish Defense Industry Chief Ismail Demir.
As a result, the workload on military shipyards is decreased,
product delivery times are reduced, and civilian shipyards acquire
a highly important capacity.
Mustafa Lutfi Civelek, Strategic and Unmanned Systems Manager at
the Sefine Shipyard, who is involved in critical projects in the
naval forces for many years, said that MIR USV has been designed to
be stable and capable of operating on open seas, as well as to be
used in very different types of naval warfare.
According to him, the MIR USV is a platform that can be utilized
for a variety of missions in areas such as surface warfare,
undersea warfare, electronic warfare, mine warfare, and asymmetric
warfare.
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