T urkey’s ARES Shipyard has built up in a little over 10 years to become the country’s fastest-growing company and its largest exporter of military boats and ships. By employing the latest technology in both construction techniques and design, ARES products lead the way in the fields of patrol and fast attack, as well as other sectors. The company’s latest vessel to enter trials, the ARES 150 Hercules for the Qatari Coast Guard, is the fastest offshore patrol vessel in the world, and highlights the ability of ARES Shipyard to develop and produce world-class vessels that are tailored to meet exacting customer specifications and demanding schedules.

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State-of-the-art production facilities

Shipbuilding has been an important also holds a Turkish Ministry of Defence processes and construction technology, industry along ’s southeast coast for production licence. This is accompanied by but also in its personnel. A highly-skilled, centuries, and ARES Shipyard continues NATO and National Confidentiality Facility adaptable and energetic workforce ensure that tradition with the latest technology Security Certificates from the ministry. that the company’s products meet high for the production of steel, aluminium alloy standards of build quality and reliability, and composite hulls. The company holds To ensure that high standards are while also being able to meet individual ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 18001 Quality consistently met the company has invested customer requirements. Management System accreditation, and heavily not only in its quality management ARES Shipyard: a Fast-growing,

Award-winning Kerim Kalafatoğlu, ARES Shipyard Company Chairman and Executive Director

achievements ounded in 2006 by the Kalafatoğlu forces, coast guards, maritime police and customer at all stages to ensure that their ARES Shipyard has become Europe’s leading company was awarded the ‘Best Patrol Boat at a glance Ffamily, ARES Shipyard was initially established port security agencies, and to customs needs are met or exceeded. builder of composite hulls for patrol boats, Builder’ prize in 2016 by the Australia-based n Turkey’s largest military ship exporter to produce small pleasure craft and fishing enforcement directorates. Many of these and its 48-metre hull for the ARES 150 Work Boat World, which also gave the year’s boats, based on the family’s long tradition sales have been to export customers, These principles have resulted in the Hercules is the largest composite hull to be prize of ‘Best Patrol Boat’ to the ARES 110 n Largest composite boat-builder in of shipbuilding and sailing. In order to including those in , Georgia, Nigeria, shipyard delivering more than 100 vessels of built in Turkey. The shipyard is the only one Hercules produced for the Qatari Coast Europe grow the company significantly, a strategic , , Tanzania and varying sizes to date. The company’s facilities to be employing full vacuum infusion and Guard. n World’s largest builder of composite decision was taken to move into the military Turkmenistan. are located in the Antalya Free Zone on epoxy resin technologies for the production hull patrol boats and para-military sectors, drawing on the Turkey’s Mediterranean shore and comprise of military boats. ARES continues to stand ready to meet future n Only shipyard using full vacuum company’s expertise in working with steel, Blueprint for success three air-conditioned units with a combined requirements, offering its unique mix of infusion/epoxy resin technology for aluminium and composite construction. At the heart of ARES Shipyard’s success are floor area of 22,000 square metres. As well Excellence recognized dynamic engineering and customer-focused naval applications its willingness to partner with leading design as construction facilities for both metal and To underline that ARES Shipyard is steering solutions. They are backed by an energetic By investing heavily in elements such as and equipment providers around the world composite hulls and superstructures, the the correct course, the company was integrated logistics support team that n Hercules programme for Qatar human resources, organization and quality such as BMT Nigel Gee and Rolls-Royce to shipyard boasts paint ovens, workshops recognized by the Turkish government as engages customers throughout the life-cycle is the world’s biggest composite management, integrated logistics support produce best-in-class vessel designs, to use for various materials, and a harbour launch the country’s fastest-growing company of the vessel’s development and deployment, military ship export programme and and advanced production technologies, the latest technology and highly-trained capability. There are also modern offices, over the last five years, having grown by from the initial contact, through delivery Turkey’s largest military ship export ARES Shipyard has achieved its aim and personnel to ensure superior build quality, and training classrooms for the support of 4,000 percent. It is now the country’s most and implementation into service, to support programme has secured numerous sales to naval and, above all, to fully engage with the customers. successful exporter of ships. Moreover, the throughout the vessel’s operational life. n ARES 150 Hercules is the world’s fastest Offshore Patrol Vessel, and the largest composite hull built in Turkey ARES FAMB Series n ARES 110 Hercules awarded ‘Best Patrol Boat’ prize for 2016 n ARES Shipyard awarded ‘Best Patrol Boat Builder’ prize for 2016

ARES 95 FAMB Fast Attack Missile Boat

ARES 80 SAT Special Forces Support Attack Craft

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The ARES 75 Hercules Training and support ollowing an extensive evaluation of its 24-metre fast patrol Fproposal ARES Shipyard was contracted in boat was first The Hercules programme for Qatar on-site training plan under which the April 2014 to supply multi-role patrol craft delivered in October showcases ARES Shipyard’s approach company is training 275 Qatari Coast to Qatar’s Ministry of the Interior, on behalf 2016, and all five are to integrated through-life support, with Guard personnel under a 654-day training of the Coast Guard Command. At the end now in Qatari service the customer participating in the design plan. Each crew destined to serve aboard of 2017 the company was nearing the phase from the outset. Rather than the 24-metre ARES 75 boats receives a completion of the delivery process. make the mission fit the vessel, the ARES 30-day training programme, while those concept is the opposite, in which the assigned to the 34-metre ARES 110 train Known as the Hercules programme, the mission requirements are the principal for 40 days. Crews for the 48-metre ARES Qatari Coast Guard contract covers a total driver behind the design proposal. Only 150 OPV receive 52 days training. of 17 vessels in three lengths, making it the with the mission parameters established largest military ship export. Designed by is the right vessel selected as a platform to Timely in-service support is provided BMT Nigel Gee, the Hercules vessels are fully best meet those requirements. by an on-site maintenance team, while customized to meet the Qatari Coast Guard’s a warranty engineer support service is needs, and provide the agency with a much- Following the design, development and provided by a team of six former Turkish expanded capability to patrol and secure the initial construction phases, the company Navy officers and engineers, who are nation’s waters. Hercules is fully involved in entry-into-service available on a 24/7 basis. The vessels support. To smooth this process ARES themselves are covered by a five-year hull The vessels themselves have been tailored programme Shipyard has instigated a comprehensive warranty. to meet the needs of operating in the Gulf waters, where they encounter little in the way of ocean swell. However, the Gulf is known for experiencing choppy conditions, which can adversely affect patrol boats when travelling at high speed by producing in 2015, after which time construction of were made in October 2016, comprising and 48-metre vessels have greater firepower a high frequency of sharp impacts that the vessels got under way at Antalya. The two ARES 75s and a single ARES 110. By the thanks to an Aselsan SMASH 30-mm auto- can shorten the hull’s structural fatigue contract called for deliveries to be made end of 2017 all of the ARES 75s had been stabilized remotely-controlled cannon. Sensor life, as well as affect the superstructure and over a five-year period, but by the end of delivered, along with seven of the ARES 110s systems include the Safran Vigy Engage onboard systems. BMT Nigel Gee employed 2017 ARES was around 18 months ahead and the first of the ARES 150s OPVs. electro-optical system fitted to all 17 vessels. advanced computer techniques to minimize of schedule, highlighting the company’s Additional capabilities for the ARES 110 and the affect of chop, while the interior has abilities to be develop, test and manufacture Mission systems 150 include the ability to carry and launch been carefully designed to keep noise and new classes of vessel in a much shorter As well as overseeing the development of the 7.5-metre fast interceptor boats. vibration to a minimum. Not only does timeframe than is traditionally encountered vessels, ARES has also developed integrated this protect onboard equipment, but also in military shipbuilding programmes. weapon and mission systems under Increased effectiveness makes for a more comfortable working supplemental contracts to increase the vessels’ For the Qatari Coast Guard the delivery of environment for the crew. Hercules covers the provision of five baseline capabilities. In the case of the Qatari the Hercules series represents a significant 24-metre ARES 75 and ten 34-metre ARES boats they are all provided with an Aselsan increase in the force’s overall operational The ARES 150 Hercules Following contract signature a critical design 110 fast patrol boats, plus two 48-metre ARES STAMP 12.7-mm auto-stabilized remotely- capabilities. As tensions in the Gulf region wheelhouse is equipped review was implemented and approved 150 offshore patrol vessels. The first deliveries controlled machine gun, while the 34-metre grow, an effective maritime patrol force is an with state-of-the-art increasingly vital asset. This is especially true communications, navigation for Qatar, whose offshore gas fields are the and mission equipment economic lifeblood of the nation. Hercules fast patrol boats are loaded on to a In Qatari service the Hercules boats are freighter for delivery to employed on a variety of missions, including the Qatari Coast Guard the patrolling of littoral waters and the escort of commercial vessels. They are tasked with search and rescue duties, and also with operations to counter smuggling, terrorism, illegal immigration and human trafficking. Their quiet operations allow them to be used for covert surveillance.

The largest of the vessels, the ARES 150, provides the Coast Guard with significant long-range/long-endurance capability, while its performance allows it to undertake high-speed dashes to an area of interest. Along with the ARES 110, it can launch fast S even of the 10 ARES 110 interceptor boats for boarding and chasing Hercules 34-metre boats had been A 34-metre ARES 110 Hercules emerges from duties, the larger vessel providing command delivered by the end of 2017 the ARES Shipyard facility in Antalya and control during such operations.

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ARES 75 ARES 75 Hercules Hercules Length overall 23.99 m fast patrol boat Beam 5.70 m Hull draught 1.20 m Displacement 59 tons Maximum speed 40 knots he smallest of the Hercules vessels, sea operations on a variety of military, Main engines 2 x MTU Tthe ARES 75 is also the fastest, with security and rescue duties. A single 12.7-mm Propulsion system 2 x Rolls-Royce WJ its current Rolls-Royce/MTU water jet machine gun is mounted on the foredeck, Construction propulsion system giving it a 40-knot controlled remotely from within the cabin. material Advanced ARES 150 Hercules capability. With a small revision to the main The vessel is equipped with an electro- composites propulsion system configuration the boat optic sensor system that provides day/ is capable of achieving 50+ knots. The boat night search and surveillance capability. The Classification/ offshore patrol vessel has exceptional agility and its sea-keeping Hercules programme includes five ARES 75 survey TL/HSC-N characteristics allow it to undertake open- vessels.

he world’s fastest OPV, the ARES 150 Like the ARES 110, the ARES 150 mounts rapid-launch capability for two 7.5-metre ARES 110 Hercules Temploys an advanced composites hull that a remotely-controlled 30-mm cannon on fast interceptor craft such as the ARES provides exceptional sea-keeping qualities the foredeck, as well as a 12.7-mm gun, 24 Harpoon, also constructed using FRP for extended open-sea missions. The hull to provide versatile firepower that can composites. Combined with the OPV’s fast patrol boat itself is the largest to be made out of be adapted to a wide variety of potential 35-plus knots, the 45-knot capability of the composites in Turkey. Qatar has two of these scenarios. ARES 24 gives the operator an impressive vessels on order, the first of which began sea rapid-reaction capability against emerging trials in late 2017. The aft deck provides open storage and threats.

ARES 110 ARES 150 Hercules Hercules Length overall 48.09 m Length overall 34.37 m Beam 8.95 m Beam 7.50 m Hull draught 1.78 m Hull draught 1.45 m Displacement 275 tons Displacement 130 tons Maximum speed 33 knots Maximum speed 37 knots inner of Work Boat World’s ‘Best Along with 12.7-mm and 30-mm armament Main engines 3 x MTU Main engines 3 x MTU WPatrol Boat 2016’ award, the ARES 110 is the from the Turkish Aselsan company, the vessel Propulsion system 3 x Rolls-Royce WJ Propulsion system 3 x Rolls-Royce WJ most numerous vessel in the Qatari order, with has a Safran electro-optic sensor turret. As with Construction ten contracted for, and will be the ‘workhorse’ other Hercules vessels it has a suite of maritime Construction material Advanced of the Coast Guard fleet. Its current Rolls- communications equipment and radars. The material Advanced composites Royce/MTU water jet propulsion system gives vessel can launch and recover a 7.5-metre fast composites it a 33-knot capability but with a minor revision interceptor craft such as the four-seat ARES 24 Classification/ Classification/ to its main propulsion system configuration Harpoon, a carbon composites vessel with a survey TL/HSC-N survey TL/HSC-N the boat is capable of achieving 45+ knots. 45-knot maximum speed.

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Versatile vessels ARES 63 Atilgan missile boat for the Turkish Navy’s Fast Attack Craft programme

hile it stands ready and able and incorporates ballistic armour protection. are a family of SAT special operations forces Wto develop new vessels along with its key A range of aluminium alloy hull designs is support and fast attack craft. The largest of partners to meet customer requirements, also available, as is a family of Harpoon fast them, a derivative of the ARES 150, has an aft ARES Shipyard also offers a diverse and interceptor boats, including the ARES 40 deck for the launch and recovery of a small/ impressive portfolio of vessels that it has Harpoon with a range of powerplant options medium helicopter. already developed. The company classifies and a top speed of up to 80 knots. its offerings into the categories of patrol ARES also offers a number of fast landing boats, naval craft, and utility/support vessels. In the naval craft category are missile boats craft designs, including BMT Nigel Gee’s In addition to its military and government ranging from the Rolls-Royce-designed Caimen-200 that can deliver large armoured agency offerings, the company also builds 70-metre and 63-metre Freyja vessels, with vehicles to the beachhead. Other capabilities pleasure craft and yachts. cannon armament and lateral-firing missile catered for by the ARES Shipyard catalogue launching tubes. Smaller fast attack missile include ambulance vessels, ships tailored In the patrol boat category the company boats are available that carry forward-firing for search and rescue operations, and fire- offers the Skadi 90 offshore patrol vessel missile launchers on the aft deck. Related fighting vessels. designed by Rolls-Royce. At 90 metres overall length and with a displacement of 2,100 tons it is the largest ship in the company’s military portfolio, and comes complete with an aft landing deck and hangar for a naval helicopter. The slightly smaller Skadi 70 can also carry a helicopter, but lacks hangar accommodation.

Other offerings in this category cover a range of fast patrol boats and OPVs in varying sizes and capabilities, including the Hercules series of composite hull boats. As well as the three Hercules variants selected by Qatar, the family includes the ARES 85, 115, 125 and 140 designs. The ARES 42 fast patrol boat is designed for law enforcement Caimen 200 LCT and counter-terrorism duties, among others,

Mr Kerim KALAFATOGLU, Chairman and Executive Director Mr Utku ALANC, Deputy General Manager ARES Shipyard Antalya Free Zone, 07070 Antalya, Turkey Tel: +90 242 259 52 61 Fax: +90 242 259 52 63 Email: [email protected] www.ares.com.tr

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