>There have been some important and interesting developments regarding the Greek submarine force and the future of it in last few days. First TKMS (ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems) the owner of HDW, Blohm & Voss, Kockums and Hellenic shipyards announced that the company was cancelling two contracts with Hellenic Navy. One contract that was cancelled by... Continue Reading →
>On 12th October 2009 the Second Naval Systems Seminar will convene in Ankara.The first seminar organized in October 2008, was an important event, as it was first event of such kind about naval equipment and weapons systems.This year’s seminar will be held on 12th October 2009, in Middle East Technical University, Culture & Convention Center.... Continue Reading →
>Raytheon Co. said on 9th September 2009 Wednesday, that it received a $19.3 million contract from the Navy to provide MK54 lightweight torpedo hardware to the U.S. and Turkish navies.Under the contract, the company said its Integrated Defense Systems division will deliver 241 MK54 kits, including 100 that will be sent to the Turkish Navy... Continue Reading →
>A video about the new boats for Turkish naval special forces has been released by TRT. This is the first video and first hard evidence that these boats are actually being built.You can watch the video here. When finished the boats will look like this model.The boats are made in Yonca-Onuk shipyard, which is specialized... Continue Reading →
>In May, The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) of USN has hosted a symposium for the all FFG-7 Perry class users. All current Perry users, Australia, Bahrain, Egypt, Poland, Spain, Taiwan and Turkey, all of which were represented at the symposium along with USN.USN has 30 FFG-7 frigates, Turkey 8, Spain 6, Australia 4, Taiwan... Continue Reading →
>This is A-585 TCG AKIN. She is a swimming piece of history. She was build as a Chanticleer class submarine rescue ship, named ASR-10 USS Greenlet. She was launched in 1942 and commissioned in USN in 1943.She saw action in World War Two. She was in Tokyo Bay, when Japan surrendered in 1945. She saw... Continue Reading →
>This is the first time that a one of the world wide leading defense company is adding a Turkish originated product to its product range.GENESIS was conceived by the Research, Project Development, Department of Turkish Navy. They built a prototype as a proof of concept and developed the system. After the whole think got enough... Continue Reading →
>The multinational naval exercise Egemen 2009 is over but information about this exercise keeps popping up.According to the photos, I have been send, by one of the participants in this exercise, following naval units has been identified:A-386 RFA Fort AustinA-390 RFA Wave RulerDDG-57 USS MitscherF-241 TCG TurgutreisF-49X TCG G classF-50X TCG B classL-12 HMS OceanL-15... Continue Reading →
>Today with a big cheer and with some tears in the eyes F-491 TCG Giresun sailed from her homeport.Usually Turkish warships leave and return to their ports quietly. Only the family members know when their loved ones has left or has arrived. But this time it was a big media event. I suppose that this... Continue Reading →
>Turkey plans to acquire blue prints for a torpedo from South Korea says a recently published newspaper story.The story itself has some obvious technical mistakes. It describes a wire guided heavy torpedo of 55km range and 50km speed, but names it as Blue Shark which is a light weight non-guided torpedo.Despite that technical error the... Continue Reading →
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