The Russian Invasion of Ukraine has brought one of the oldest and maybe one of the most potent and silent killers of the seas back to our daily lives: the sea mines. The first floating mine near Istanbul was spotted on 26 March 2022 by a merchant ship at anchor near the northern entrance of Bosphorus... Continue Reading →
The Russian invasion of Ukraine demonstrated again that nations need to invest regularly in their navies. It is not cheap or simple to build and maintain a navy and keep it up-to-date against contemporary threads. Today we are going to briefly examine the new warship construction or acquisition projects of the Black Sea countries. For... Continue Reading →
Aydın class minehunter TCG Akçay has discovered a mine probably a relic of Second World War, as she was conducting training operations with SNMCMG-2 off the coast of Romania. The NATO task force made its northbound passage through Turkish Straits 16 days ago. The mine was discovered at 8 A.M. local time while TCG AKÇAY, under... Continue Reading →
Romania has officially started the modernization process of her 2 Type-22 frigates on 16 March 2016. Like Bulgaria, Romania too needed modern, up to date and NATO compatible warships when both countries joined NATO. While Bulgaria opted to buy second hand frigates and mine hunter from Belgium, Romania bought two Type-22 frigates from Great Britain... Continue Reading →
The Romanian Coast Guard vessel MAI 1105 Stefan Cel Mare arrived in the morning of 5th August for a port visit in Istanbul. This is not the first time, that the Damen OPV 900 class vessel is in Istanbul. She was funded by the European Union in order to strengthen the Border Police force of... Continue Reading →
>This Morning the Romanian border Guard vessel MAI-1105 Stefan Cel Mare passed through Bosphorus.She is heading to Create, Greece.The Damen Offshore Patrol Vessel 950 class vessel was delivered to Romania in September 2010. She was funded by the European Union in order to strengthen the Border Police force of Romania.In a similar procurement project the Turkish Istanbul... Continue Reading →
>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 →
>The five river partrol boats of SNR-17 class, constructed for Romanian Border Police were delivered last week. Istanbul Shipyard (not to be mixed with Istanbul Naval Shipyard) was seleced by Romania to supply the boats back in January 2010. The total value of the project is estimated to be around 7,5 million euros.The boats are equipped... Continue Reading →
>The Russian naval website rusnavy.com reports that Russian Black Sea Fleet will receive six Admiral Gorshkov class (Project 22350) frigates, six Lada (Project 677) diesel submarines, two Ivan Gren class (Project 11711) large landing ships, four ships of other projects, modernized bombers Su-24M instead of obsolete versions, and ASW aircrafts, Il-38 instead of amphibious aircrafts... Continue Reading →
>According to the Blackseafor commander, the On-Call Naval Force of Black Sea navies BlackSeaFor has left the Bulgarian port of Varna to conduct its next stage of exercises. The April 2010 activation of BlackSeafor is scheduled to end on 27th April and is commanded by Bulgarian Navy.As reported earlier, the first stage of the exercises... Continue Reading →
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