On 24 July 2013 late afternoon NATO’s Standing Maritime Group 2 (SNMG-2) arrived in Istanbul. The group was in the Black Sea since 5 July and visited Bulgaria, and Ukraine and conducted training with Bulgarian and Romanian naval units. Currently, SNMG-2 consists of the Spanish frigate F-103 SPS Blas De Lezo and Turkish frigate F-246... Continue Reading →
The ships of NATO's Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 (SNMG2) are in Aksaz Naval Base, in Turkey for the Command hand over ceremony. The Italian LPD, L-9893 ITS San Marco was the flagship of SNMG-2 for the last 6 months when the task force was conducting anti piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden. The Spanish... Continue Reading →
The Albanian Armed Forces is providing information about the SNMCMG-2 visit to this country: Today, on 06.07.2013 at 08:00 in the Sea Port of Vlora arrived ready group of NATO minesweeper, SNMCMG 2. Ready Group of the NATO minesweeper, SNMCMG2, composed of ships "HMS LEDBURY", "TCG EDINCIK" and "ITS Crotone" between 7 to 10 June... Continue Reading →
NATO's mine counter measures group SNMCMG-2 Arrived in Vlores, Albania on 7 June 2013 for a 4 day visit. Three NATO SNMCMG2 Mine Counter-measuring Ships have anchored on Friday morning in the port of Valona. Official sources from the Albanian Ministry of Defense confirmed that these ships will stay on this port for 4 days,... Continue Reading →
This from the official web site of Ukrainian Ministry of Defence: This was announced Secretary General of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, opening on Friday in Brussels meeting of NATO-Ukraine Commission. - I just exchanged letters with the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Pavel Lebedev, confirming Ukraine's participation in the NATO operation against piracy "Ocean Shield" - said the... Continue Reading →
NATO SNMCMG-2 plus Greek M-61 HS Evniki and one unidentified Rhein class tender from Turkish Navy in İzmir harbor on 6th November 2012.
Standing NATO Maritime Mine Counter Group 2 ended her visit to in Patras, Greece on 30th October 2012. It seems that the Public Relations Officer responsible for SNMCMG-2 has gone AWOL. The latest news on the official website is from July 2012. But wait. It get's better. The photo of TCG Ayvalık on the Force Composition page shows an entirely different class of Turkish... Continue Reading →
Today, Turkish Navy will pass the command of the Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 to German Navy for a period of one year. Turkey took the command of SNMG -2 last year in Aksaz Naval Base in Marmaris Turkey. For the first half of the tenure, during the task forces' Mediterranean, Black Sea, Baltic and North Sea... Continue Reading →
Today the NATO SNMG-1 task group consisting of the German frigate F-209 FGS Rheinland-Pfalz and Dutch frigate/destroyer F-805 HNLMS Evertsen arrived in Istanbul for an official visit. Long gone are the days when the visiting NATO fleet would cover a considerable space in Bosphorus. After their stay in Istanbul the task force will replace SNMG-2... Continue Reading →
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