Ares, Meteksan launch Turkey’s first indigenous AUSV February 17, 2021, by Bojan Lepic
Ares Shipyard and Meteksan Defence Industry have launched and started sea trials for Turkey’s first indigenous armed unmanned surface vehicle (AUSV).
The two companies started the program in October 2020 which resulted in the launching of the ULAQ AUSV prototype vessel.
In the joint press release, CEO of Ares Shipyard
Utku Alanç and general manager of Meteksan Defence
Selçuk K. Alparslan stated: “
In the field of unmanned surface vehicles, we would like to proudly announce that we have launched the first AUSV of ULAQ series and have initiated the intensive sea trials period.
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ARES Shipyard and Meteksan Defence, which had initiated Turkey’s first indigenous Armed Unmanned Surface Vehicle (AUSV) program in October 2020, announced that the prototype vessel, ULAQ AUSV has been launched and sea trials have been started.
The prototype AUSV’s missile systems are inclusive of 4 cells of Cirit and 2 of L-UMTAS (Picture source: Meteksan Defence Industry)
Utku Alanç, Chief Executive Officer of ARES Shipyard, and Selçuk K. Alparslan, General Manager of Meteksan Defence, stated: In the field of Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs); we would like to proudly announce that we have launched the first Armed Unmanned Surface Vehicle of ULAQ series, and have initiated the intensive sea trials period. From now on, our next short term target is to complete the sea trials successfully and carry out the guided missile firing tests. Since the very first announcement of ULAQ Unmanned Systems, we have encountered significant interest from
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