In this video Turkish special forces team deployed on board of MEKO 200 Track I class,Turkish frigate F-243 TCG Yıldırım are boarding the Romanian frigate F-221 Regele Ferdinand. This boarding was made as a demonstration for the Lieutenant General Charles Bouchard, Operational Commander of the Operation Unified Protector. Click here for the photos of the... Continue Reading →
Turkey To Command The Standing NATO Maritime Group 2
The Standing NATO Maritime Group 2, is one of the four NATO's permanent naval task forces. Usually SNMG-2 is deployed in the Mediterranean area but, as required, the task force is deployed anywhere NATO requires it to deploy to. The command of the task force is rotated among its participants on a yearly basis. The... Continue Reading →
Russian Submarine Will Take Part In NATO Exercise
The Russian Kilo class submarine, Alrosa will indeed take part in the NATO exercise Bold Monarc. Russia will send a small task force from its Black Sea Fellet consisting of diesel submarine Alrosa, mooring lighter KIL-158, rescue ship Epron, and salvage tug Shakhter to Bold Monarch-2011. NATO organizes this large-scale submarine rescue in every three years. This year the exercise will be conducted... Continue Reading →
List Of Warships Taking Part In Operation Unified Protector (UPDATED)
NATO has updated its list of the warships taking part in the Operation Unified Protector. Thus I have to update my list too. It seems that it is the Turkish submarine S-353 TCG Preveze that is taking part in the operation rather than previously announced S-358 TCG Çanakkale. TCG Preveze is the first boat of... Continue Reading →
List Of Warships Taking Part In Operation Unified Protector
NATO has published the names of the warships taking part in the arms embargo against Libya, as called for in UN Security Council Resolution 1973. On left is the screen shot from NATO website showing the photos of the participating ships. The regular readers of this blog will find the two photos I have marked very very familiar.... Continue Reading →
>Ukraine Sends A Warship To Libya While Romania And Bulgaria Prepares One
>U-402 Konstantin Olshansky. NATO photo.Exactly at midnight of 23th March 2011, the Ukrainian Ropucha 1 class landing ship U-402 Konstantin Olshansky Sevastopol to conduct Non-Combatant Evacuation of Ukranian citizens trapped in Libya.She has passed through Bosphorus on 24 March 2011 early in the morning and left Turkish territorial waters late at night.According to Ukrainian Goverment Portal the ship can accommodated 500 to 600... Continue Reading →
>Turkish Contribution To NATO Operations Off Libya Takes Shape
> F-243 TCG Yıldırım. Here in Çanakkale on 18 March 2011, soon off the coast of Libya. Turkish contribution to NATO enforced maritime embargo to Libya takes shape. Yesterday, on 23 March it was announced that Turkey would send 4 frigates, one replenishment tanker and one submarine to the NATO task force off the coast of Libya. According to news reports this intention was officially... Continue Reading →
>SACEUR, ADM Stavridis in Ankara
>Yesterday, on 23 March 2011, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe Admiral Stavridis arrived in Ankara for a two day visit.I do not know when this visit was planned but the timing could not have been better, after yesterdays declaration that Turkey will take part in NATO's arms embargo against Libya.According to Anadolu Ajansı news agency, Admiral Stavridis had... Continue Reading →
>Turkish Navy To Help NATO Enforce Libya Embargo
>According to Reuters, Turkey agreed to provide 4 frigates, one submarine and one support ship to NATO, so that NATO can enforce the arms embargo imposed on Libya. The alliance had offers of 16 ships to implement a decision to launch the mission taken by NATO this week, NATO military officer Brigadier Pierre St Amand told a... Continue Reading →
>TCG Giresun Helps M/T Guanabara
>Today, F-491 TCG Giresun assisted to Japanese owned and Bahamian flagged tanker Guanabara.The tanker was attacked by Somali pirates 330 miles south east of Duqm, Oman. The pirates were able to to board the ship but the crew hide in side a safe room.Turkish contribution to Standing NATO Maritime Task Group 2 (CTF-508), TCG Giresun was diverted to help... Continue Reading →
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