>I have written my previous post after my visit at the Naval Systems seminar late at night. Now after reading by good friend Arda Mevlutoğlu’s blog post about 3. NSS I have remembered a few more things. You should read his excellent blog as he attended the second day of the seminar as well.1. TF-2000... Continue Reading →
>I have attended the first day of the naval systems seminar yesterday. The naval systems seminar has started as a one day event, three years ago. The aim was to bring the ship building industry, Turkish Navy and the procurement agency together to exchange ideas. This year’s event has spread on two days but my... Continue Reading →
>In Greek internet news portals and blog are correct then, Greek Navy will commission its first Type 214 class submarine HS Papanikolis on 15th October 2010, after ten years of the signing of her contract. Her sisters will follow Papanikolis in 18, 28 and 38 months intervals. On 30th September, TKMS the maker of the... Continue Reading →
>On 2nd October in Istanbul the first fast LCT for Turkish Navy was launched. The construction of Ç-151, the first ship of a class of 8 was started in January 2010. ADİK shipyard was won the bid to produce 8 LCT’s for Turkish Navy and in June 2009, a contract was signed between SSM and... Continue Reading →
>Turkish and Egyptian navies will take part in exercise called Bahr El-Muhabbe Sea of Friendship between 29 September and 4 October 2010. The exercise will be hosted by Egypt and will be executed in Eastern Mediterranean.The aim of the exercise is to develop mutual cooperation and interoperability between two navies. Turkey will send two frigates, one replenishment... Continue Reading →
>On 14th August 2010, the second activation period for the cal-on naval task force BlackSeaFor has begun in Constance, Romania. Romania will take the command of the BlackSeaFor from Bulgaria, for one year. This activation of the task force will continue till 30th August. The ships will spend 12 days in port and 8 days... Continue Reading →
>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 →
>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.
>The Bulgarian news portal novinite.com reported that Bulgaria was planning to but two second hand minehunters from Netherlands in 2014.Currently Bulgarian Navy has one Tripartite class minehunter 32 BNS Tsibar in active service. The ship originally destined for Belgian Navy was decommissioned in 2007 after 20 years of service. She was re-activated and transferred to... Continue Reading →
>According to Strategy Page website Greek Navy is going to retire the four Zubr class hovercrafts it had acquired from Russia and Ukraine. According to Strategy Page website Greek Navy is going to retire the four Zubr class hovercrafts it had acquired from Russia and Ukraine. Three of them joined the Greek Navy in 2001... Continue Reading →
