Electronic Map Display, Information and Tracking System STMDENGİZ WECDIS developed by STM Defense Technologies Engineering and Trade Inc. for military naval platforms, became the first Turkish WECDIS to be entitled to receive the “Wheelmark” of the Maritime Equipment Directive-MED certificate valid worldwide.
According to the statement made by STM, the company, which produces innovative and national systems by playing a critical role in Turkey’s defense industry move, continues to localize subsystems for naval platforms.
STM added a new one to its systems and solutions that will allow warships to navigate safely. Electronic Map Display, Information and Tracking System STMDENGİZ WECDIS, developed by STM engineers for military naval platforms, received the “Wheelmark” approval of the Marine Equipment Directive (MED-Marine Equipment Directive), which has worldwide validity. Thus, STMDENGİZ WECDIS became the first WECDIS product to receive MED Certificate in Turkey.
Safe and controlled navigation with STMDENGİZ WECDIS
Produced for underwater and surface platforms used for military purposes, STMDENGİZ WECDIS has been designed to provide all military functional requirements as well as include new-generation military map systems.
The system, which can be found on ships, on bridges, or in the war operations center depending on the platform size, automatically displays the ship’s route and progress in a digital environment and functions as a map.
STMDENGİZ WECDIS includes different additional military layers. For example, when a mine or shipwreck is detected in a previous mine operation in a region and these detections are uploaded to the system as an additional military layer, this information can be seen in the system thanks to the additional layers of STMDENGİZ WECDIS. In this way, military ships are provided with safer and more controlled navigation.
The domestic software STMDENGİZ WECDIS increases navigational awareness by integrating other data providers, while also increasing the efficiency of the navigational plan by reducing the time to be used in the navigation plan and evaluation. The system, which positively affects the efficiency of map corrections by reducing the burden on navigation personnel by automatically making and uploading the map corrections to the system by electronic map producers, eliminates the need for manual map corrections and long navigation plans. In addition to easy-to-use screen functions and high operating performance, STMDENGİZ WECDIS, which has user-friendly software and various screen sizes, includes route planning/editing and safety control functions.
STMDENGİZ ECDIS will be used in the AGOSTA 90B Pakistani Submarine Modernization project, of which STM is the main contractor, and STMDENGİZ WECDIS will be integrated into Turkey’s first national frigate project “I” Class Frigate (TCG ISTANBUL), and ships exported by STM.