New naval warfare system to improve Turkish Navy

By Gokhan Ergocun

ISTANBUL (AA) - The Naval Warfare Effectiveness Analysis Model (GEMED) Project will increase the Turkish Navy's combat readiness level, allowing the analysis of battle scenarios through batch runs in a virtual environment before actual field application.

According to developer firm STM's press release issued Thursday, the acceptance tests for GEMED have been completed.

Ozgur Guleryuz, the general manager of STM, said: “We are strengthening our navy by producing modern, national platforms.”

"In addition to that, we are developing software systems that will add intelligence to these platforms and supply decision support to their headquarters."

The system will allow the navy forces to evaluate the combat effectiveness of existing military platforms, Guleryuz noted.

He underlined that STM has developed models of around 100 different combat elements and their subsystems.

"These platform, sensor, weapon and countermeasure models will allow effectiveness analyses for surface, underwater and air operations," he added.

As part of the acceptance tests, more than 40 operations have been tested so far.