STM Savunma Teknolojileri Muhendislik ve Ticaret

STM was created in 1991 by a decision of Turkey's Defence Industry Executive Committee, originally to give the procurement authority and the armed forces an engineering and consultancy capability of their own. It grew into something wider. The firm now designs warships, builds loitering munitions, runs cyber security operations and still sells the certification, systems engineering and project management advice it started with. Naval platforms remain the anchor of the business. STM holds design, construction and modernisation roles across the MILGEM Ada class corvettes, the I class frigate TCG Istanbul and the Reis class Type 214 submarines, and it is building the STM 500, a 500 tonne coastal diesel electric boat aimed at navies that operate in shallow water where a full size submarine is the wrong tool.

Export work has been steady rather than occasional. STM led the engineering for four Jinnah class corvettes for the Pakistan Navy under the MILGEM-J programme, two built in Istanbul and two at Karachi Shipyard, delivered the PNS Moawin fleet tanker and carried out the mid life upgrade of Pakistan's Agosta 90B submarines. Ship designs have gone to Malaysia as well. Unmanned and autonomous systems form the second pillar. Kargu is the rotary wing loitering munition that put the company on the map and has been exported across three continents, Alpagu and the longer ranged Alpagut are the fixed wing equivalents, Togan is a mini reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft, Boyga drops munitions and Turul is a vertical takeoff design. Underwater, Neta 300 is an autonomous vehicle already in sea trials, and Tengiz is a 17.8 tonne extra large unmanned underwater vehicle shown in 2026 that carries heavy torpedoes and acts as a mothership for smaller craft. The tactical UAV family has reached fifteen countries on four continents.

Command, control and decision support software, satellite and radar technology engineering and information technologies fill out the technical side of the house. Cyber security is run as a business rather than an internal function, covering threat intelligence, application security, security level assessment and incident response, and STM established the first cyber fusion centre in Turkey. STM ThinkTech is the technology think tank arm, publishing sector analysis and delivering studies for public bodies, universities and NATO, including an integrated resilience model handed over in 2021. The company also signed a maritime security cooperation agreement with NATO. Around 2,500 people work there, and the firm has appeared in the Defense News Top 100 several years running. The engineering and consultancy roots still shape how the work is sold, because a large share of the naval business is design authority and programme management on hulls STM does not itself weld, with construction carried out at naval and commercial yards while the company keeps responsibility for design, integration and certification.