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Istanbul-class frigate

Frigate class of the Turkish Naval Forces

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
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Source-derived summary

The Istanbul-class frigates are a class of multirole frigates currently being constructed for the Turkish Naval Forces and the Indonesian Navy.

The ship class developed under the MILGEM national warship program with enhanced endurance and MiDLAS vertical launching system (VLS) for multi-role capability. Turkish company STM is the designer and prime contractor of the ship class. The class is also offered for export. Ships of the class are made by four Turkish shipyards. The frigate class is fast and highly maneuverable due to using of CODAG technology.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Istanbul-class frigate” is frigate class of the Turkish Naval Forces. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Istanbul-class, frigate and Frigate, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 87-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Istanbul-class, frigate and Frigate is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Istanbul-class frigate” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.