What Indigenous Systems Are on TCG Burgazada? The HIZIR Torpedo System and ATMACA Missiles

TCG Burgazada (F-513) is the third ship of the Ada-class ASW corvettes built under Turkey’s MİLGEM programme. Built at Istanbul Naval Shipyard and delivered to the Turkish Navy on 4 November 2018, Burgazada stands out as the first MİLGEM ship to carry ASELSAN’s indigenous HIZIR torpedo countermeasure system, replacing the foreign system used on the class’s first two ships.

HIZIR: the class’s first indigenous torpedo countermeasure

While the Ada class’s first two ships (Heybeliada, Büyükada) carried foreign torpedo countermeasure suites, Burgazada was fitted with ASELSAN’s domestically designed HIZIR system, which acoustically detects incoming torpedoes and deploys decoys to defeat them — a concrete example of rising indigenisation within a single ship class.

Other indigenous systems

HAVELSAN’s GENESIS combat management system runs the ship’s command layer; ASELSAN’s ARES-2N provides electronic warfare support, and two ASELSAN STAMP 12.7mm remote weapon stations offer close-in defence. Eight ROKETSAN ATMACA anti-ship missiles form the ship’s primary strike weapon, while STM’s UniMACS 3000 integrated platform management system runs the ship’s engineering and damage-control automation.

SSB’s role

The MİLGEM programme is procured by SSB (Turkey’s defence procurement authority) with technical input from the Navy; construction takes place at Istanbul Naval Shipyard, part of the Naval Shipyards Command. SSB coordinates procurement and oversees subsystem integration — it did not build the ship itself.

Sources

SavunmaSanayiST; ASELSAN corporate blog; Wikipedia (TCG Burgazada); US Navy official photo archive (Wikimedia Commons, public domain).

Part of the Indigenous Power of the Blue Homeland series.