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“Nusrat”… An Ottoman ship that prevented the fall of Istanbul returns after a century to search for mines

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publish date 2021-08-23 14:12:03

During the International Defense Industry Fair (IDEF), hosted by Istanbul, and which concludes on Friday, the first locally made Turkish sonar (sensor) dedicated to hunting sea mines, called “Nusrat 1915”, was displayed, in memory of the Ottoman ship “Nusrat”, the mine-laying ship. , which prevented the entry of the Allied powers through the Dardanelles and the occupation of Istanbul during the First World War.

While unveiling the first locally made Turkish sonar special in detecting and searching for sea mines, Ismail Demir, head of the Turkish Defense Industries Organization of the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey, said that “the name “Nusrat 1915″ constitutes a very valuable bridge between the past and the future,” referring to the The heroic role played by the Ottoman “Nusrat” ship during the First World War, and the national role that the local sonar would play in reducing Turkey’s dependence on the outside in this type of military technology.

In its endeavors to end foreign dependence on marine sonar systems, Armelsan Defense Technology Company has developed the Nusrat 1915 marine sonar with local capabilities exceeding 85%. Thanks to the sonar’s ability to accurately and effectively detect sea mines from a distance of a kilometer, as well as the possibility of using it within unmanned unmanned platforms, Nusrat 1915 will have very high export opportunities, regionally and internationally.

Mine planter “Nusrat”

In 1911, the Ottoman Empire entrusted the German Friedrich Krupp with the task of designing and building a ship for the Ottoman Navy. .

During the Çanakkale War of 1915, the ship Nusrat, which was entrusted with the task of planting naval mines, played a pivotal role in repelling the Allied attack on the Dardanelles Strait in order to occupy Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire at the time.

On one night in March 1915, while the French Admiral Gibrat, who was tasked with crossing the Allied fleet through the Dardanelles and occupying Istanbul, was watching the cold waters of the narrow strait from the deck of the most powerful warships of the period, and his eyes were on the exhausted Ottoman army, “Nusrat” planted “26 sea mines unexpectedly facing the Dardanelles Strait, on March 18, 1915, caused not only the sinking of the British battleship “HMS Irresistible”, the battleship of the Royal Navy “The Ocean” and the French battleship “Bovet”, but also contributed to changing the fate of the war. in favor of the Ottomans.

Sonar “Nusrat 1915”

Speaking to TRT Haber, Can Emre Bakem, General Manager of Armelsan, which specializes in the maritime defense technology industry, said, “From the beginning, one of the goals of establishing our company has been to end the Turkish navy’s dependence abroad on marine sonar systems. infrastructure.”

He added, “For this purpose, we established a team to conduct comprehensive research in this regard, which resulted in the fact that one of the most important needs of the Turkish Navy, which it relies on from foreign sources, is “mine hunting sonar.” Immediately, we rolled up our sleeves and began the preparation process for the production of advanced local sonar as soon as possible.”

To this day, while the Turkish Navy continues to use expensive foreign sonar systems on Engin and Aydın class mine fishing vessels, all modernization work as well as acceptance tests have been completed on the Nusrat 1915 sonar, which was first shown in International Defense Industry Fair (IDEF) 2019.

Jan Emre Bakem pointed out that Sonar “Nusrat 1915” has reached a production rate within local capabilities of more than 85%, and stressed that efforts are currently ongoing to make it a 100% national product. In this regard, he said, “We design and produce all parts of the sonar except for the sensor that we design and manufacture abroad,” and added, “In a very short period, we will be able to manufacture the sensor in Turkey.”

Nusrat 15 mechanism of action

Basically, “mine hunting sonar” systems operate on more than one frequency. Initially, the specialist activates the low-frequency system, which enables the ship to conduct a long-distance survey, during which it detects bottom mines or moored mines up to a distance of about one kilometer. At this stage, the sonar can distinguish whether the detected objects are sea mines or similar objects, without being able to perform any other classification.

Next, the ship approaches the object whose location has been located by sonar, and then examines and classifies it. If the detected object is a mine, the ship’s crew activates the best and most appropriate systems owned by the ship “mining sweeper” in order to neutralize and neutralize the mine.

When asked, what distinguishes Nusrat 1915 from other global sonar systems? General Director Jan Emre Bakem replied: “The system we developed contains receiving antennas with a much higher frequency than other global systems, and thus Nusrat 1915 can identify targets with higher accuracy and more clearly.”

He added, “There is a global trend currently towards unmanned unmanned platforms, so we qualified “Nusrat 1915″ for use within many of these platforms specialized in detecting mines, in addition to the possibility of employing it as a main sensor.” “When the system is autonomous, of course you don’t put the big platforms at risk, you can achieve the same result at a lower cost, and most importantly you don’t put the lives of crew members at risk,” Backem added.

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