>Today Turkish frigate F-494 TCG Gökçeada departed from Aksaz Naval base to Gulf of Aden. TCG Gökçeada will serve under the international anti-piracy mission, CTF-151, to fight piracy and carry out surveillance tasks. According to some Turkish internet news portals she will replace TCG Gelibolu. This is unlikely as TCG Gelibolu is in SNMG-2 but on... Continue Reading →
>Bulgaria Will Cease Its Submarine Force
>Bulgarian Defense Minister Anyu Angelov, stated that the life of the only operational Bulgarian submarine Slava has expired, and it will probably be retired in the coming months.“Calling it a submarine force is too strong because any such unit must include at least two vessels. As you know, we have only one submarine. Its life... Continue Reading →
>The Americans Are Here Too
>FFG-50 USS Taylor, crew members participated in a compliant visit, board, search and seizure (VBSS) exercise with the Turkish navy frigate F240 TCG Yavuz July 19, during exercise Sea Breeze 2010. The two ships used the training opportunity to familiarize themselves with each other’s VBSS equipment and techniques, which is remarkably very similar as most of... Continue Reading →
>Order Of Battle For Exercise Sea Breeze 2010
>The exercise Sea Breeze will end today. But finally I was able to find the names of (almost) all participating ships:US Navy:FFG-50 USS Taylor, frigateTurkish Navy:F-240 TCG Yavuz, frigateP-330 TCG Kılıç, missile boatP-331 TCG Kalkan, missile boatUkrainan Navy:U-402 Konstantin Olshansky, landing shipU-401 Kirovograd, landing sahipU-311 Cherkassy, minesweeperU-331 Mariupol, minesweeperU-360 Genichesk, minesweeperU-206 Dnieper, frigateU-209 Ternopil frigateU-705... Continue Reading →
>The Russians Are Here
>On 20 July, the Commander of Russian Navy, Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky started a 3 day official visit to Turkey.According to news the two commanders will discuss directions of further cooperation on security issues on the Black Sea.Vysotsky expected to visit Turkey's Izmir and Askaz naval bases as well. The bilateral relations between two navies have... Continue Reading →
>The Submarine Deals That Helped Sink Greece
>Last week Wall Street Journal ran an interesting article about the Greek economy and the weapon acquisition for the armed forces. For me the whole issue is a typical example of the guns or butter dilemma. Adding not too honest politicians and creative accounting into the mixture does not make things easier either. There are... Continue Reading →
>Greek Navy Is Saying Goodbye To Zubr’s (Part 2)
>Apparently Greek Navy is retiring its hovercrafts faster that anticipated. It was reported earlier that Greek Navy was having difficulties in keeping the hovercrafts operational and that they were going to be decommissioned.According to Jane’s Defence Weekly, Greek Navy has already decommissioned two of them already. Photo from Wikipedia.
>New Commander For Russian Black Sea Fleet
>This important news slipped my attention last week. Vice Adm. Vladimir Korolyov has been appointed the new commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Korolyov, former deputy commander of the Northern Fleet, replaces Vice Adm. Alexander Kletskov, who will formally retire in August when he passes the mandatory age limit for active service. Russian Navy... Continue Reading →
>Jean De Vienne In The Region
>The French destroyer D-643 Jean de Vienne has arrived at Dardanelles after shooting up an Greek islet.The warship passed the Turkish Stratis and will visits Sevastopol and Nicopolis in Bulgaria where Admiral Jean de Vienne was killed in 1396, after visiting Batumi.Click here and here for further reading. Photo from Wikipedia.
>Sea Breeze 2010
> The exercise Sea Breeze 2010 is about to begin in Ukraine this week. The annual exercise Sea Breeze was usually held as a bilateral organization where Ukraine and the United States are the main participants. Other countries are invited as necessary. This year’s main focus will be fighting sea piracy. The exercises will involve... Continue Reading →
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