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Zitat:MİLDEN submarine named Atılay links past and future
20 Dec 2025, 20:14 5 mins
Turkiye
Navy / Maritime
MİLDEN submarine named Atılay links past and future TurDef
Admiral Ercüment Tatlıoğlu, the head of the naval forces, has said that Türkiye has fulfilled a long-awaited strategic goal by starting to build its first entirely indigenous submarine. Speaking on the naval platforms delivery ceremony programme, Tatlıoğlu confirmed that the national submarine project is no longer conceptual but has entered the physical build phase, stating: “We have started to build our national submarine, Atılay. We are now among the ten countries in the world capable of designing and constructing their own submarines.”
It has also emerged that the first submarine to be built under the MİLDEN programme will carry the name Atılay. The choice is historically charged. The first submarine built in Türkiye for the Turkish Navy was TCG Atılay (D-351), commissioned in the 1930s. The name Atılay was personally given by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk to the lead boat of that class, establishing a symbolic lineage that now reappears nearly a century later.
The original Atılay was more than a platform. It represented Türkiye’s first successful application of a domestic shipyard plus foreign licence model, laying the industrial and doctrinal foundations that would turn Gölcük into a permanent submarine construction centre. In hindsight, that programme marked the historical starting point of the vision now embodied by MİLDEN: sovereign undersea capability designed, built and sustained at home.
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