The systems aims to enable warships to carry out their combat missions safely in all weather and sea conditions, including adverse ones

STM, a Turkish defence company, and Robotek Automation Technologies Ltd. have managed to develop for the first time in Türkiye a Fin Stabilising System to enable warships to carry out their combat missions safely in all weather and sea conditions, including adverse ones.

The national Fin Stabilizing System has been developed to resist excessive rolling of ships in both directions, allowing the ships to operate safely in rough seas. It also increases the safety of personnel and the operational efficiency of platforms, minimising the movements occurring in difficult sea conditions or sudden manoeuvres that the ship will encounter in cruising and combat situations.

The Fin Stabilizing System provides support for helicopter operations as well as weapon stabilisation during firing and for supply, material, and personnel transfer at sea. Its design is resistant to challenging sea conditions and has automatic and adaptive operating features.

The system, that was previously supplied from abroad, is a further step in the indigenisation and nationalisation efforts in the field of naval platforms, the company said. It will be integrated aboard two Corvettes built under a project for export by STM.

The system is expected to be integrated aboard MILGEM 6, 7, and 8 ships constructed under Türkiye’s national frigate project.

Özgür GÜLERYÜZ, General Manager of STM said: “We successfully fulfilled our indigenisation task in the MILGEM project, and increased the localisation rate from 15 percent in the first ship, to more than 80 percent in the last ship. We managed to develop the Fin Stabilizing System for the first time in Türkiye and incorporated it in our export project. […] The Fin Stabilizing System, which is mounted on the underwater part, i.e., the hull of ships, resembles the fins of a fish. It has an important role under heavy weather and sea conditions and supports the stabilisation of ships. We have also gained the ability to design fin stabilising systems in different sizes and capacities for naval surface platforms with different displacements.”