This week, Turkish Naval Forces conducted an electronic warfare exercise off the coast of Antalya. The embedded short video shows ULAQ unmanned surface vessel with an EW suite and antenna. This version of ULAQ was made public when it was shown to the members of the Ankara Military Attache Corps. The details of the new... Continue Reading →
NATO’s Submarine Warfare Exercise Dynamic Manta 2022 kicked on 21 February 2022, off the Sicilian coast, with ships, submarines, aircraft and personnel from 9 Allied nations. According to the NATO press release, submarines from France, Greece, and Italy joined surface ships from Canada, France, Greece, Italy, Spain, Turkey, the U.K. and the U.S. for the... Continue Reading →
Today the Rhein class auxiliary ship, TCG Sokullu Mehmet Paşa, left her homeport in Tuzla, İstanbul and headed to the Black Sea. TCG Sokullu Mehmet Paşa and her sister TCG Cezarli Hasan Paşa have two 100mm gun turrets. The aft turet on board of TCG Sokullu Mehmet Paşa was removed in 2018. She was used... Continue Reading →
Dynamic Monarch/Kurtaran 2021, the 11th in a series of NATO sponsored live Submarine Escape and Rescue (SMER) exercises was held 12 to 24 September in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Aksaz, Turkey. I think that the scenarios applied in this year's Dynamic Monarc/Kurtaran exercise are very similar to the scenarios in Kurtaran... Continue Reading →
While searching for the training mine Spanish mine hunter ESPS Duero found this old English mine from World War 1. Nusret 2020 mine countermeasures exercise will end tomorrow. Nusret is an annual invitation exercise focusing on mine warfare. The exercise is named after the famous minelayer Nusret. In even years the exercise is held in... Continue Reading →
Nusret 2019 mine countermeasures exercise will end tomorrow. Nusret is an annual invitation exercise focusing mine warfare. The exercise is named after the famous minelayer Nusret. In even years the exercise is held in İzmir Bay and in odd years it is held in Çanakkale and Saros Bay. The aim of the exercise is to... Continue Reading →
Turkish Navy organized the third initiation of Kurtaran series submarine rescue exercises between 27 and 31 May 2019. This year the submarines TCG Gür, TCG 1. İnönü and TCG Dolunay, submarine rescue ship TCG Alemdar, rescue and salvage ships TCG Işın and TCG Akın, frigate TCG Gelibolu, minehunter TCG Akçay, patrol boat TCG Köyceğiz, one... Continue Reading →
An update to the major units taking part in the exercise Mavi Vatan: Small landing craft and auxiliaries taking part in the exercise are not included in the list. For further information regarding the exercise click here. Additional information: Frigates: TCG Gökçeada is deployed with the SNMG-2 and TCG Geliblou is in Gulf Of Aden... Continue Reading →
Regular readers of this blog will know, that I like to name the units that are taking part in an exercise. It is not easy to identify the participating units to the Mavi Vatan naval exercise. First, there are 103 units taking part in this drill. I would be able to get to name them... Continue Reading →
Today, 96 ships of various types and 7 submarines sailed away from their ports this morning as the naval exercise Mavi Vatan started. Mavi Vatan means Blue Motherland (or Fatherland or Homeland depending your own orientation) and refers to the seas around Turkey. The exercise is held in the Eastern Mediterranean, Aegean and in the... Continue Reading →
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