These two wonderful photos of one of the two Turkish Naval Special Forces’s infiltration boat making a dash through Bosphorus was send to me by my Bulgarian reader Nikolay Zlatev. I thank him very much. Interestingly the Undersecretariat For Defense Industries published one Request For Information document to purchase additional infiltration boats.
Today, The Turkish General Staff website run a thank you note (an e-mail actually) from a recovering Turkish merchant sailor who got very ill when his ship was in Gulf of Aden 15 days ago. According to the e-mail, the sailor, electrician officer on board of M/V Tuna 7 (in the actual e-mail the name of the ship... Continue Reading →
While I was down with a severe case of flu, the editor of the fox2magazine.net (one of the few military related Greek websites I find it worth reading) send me a very interesting article from Russian origin. Apparently the Russians played a war game with the scenario of a armed conflict between Russia and Turkey. And we won. A war game for a... Continue Reading →
This is a text about the cooperation between RAN and Turkish Navy in CTF-151. I have found it on the official page of Department of Defence of Australian Government. In a first for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), two officers were recently embedded as part of the Command Staff for counter-piracy operations aboard the Turkish Navy Flagship, TCG... Continue Reading →
The Turkish Coast Guard with at least 50 units is the biggest local user of fast patrol boats build by Yonca Onuk shipyard. The Turkish Navy recently started to commission boats of this shipyard. Two are used for the infiltration of special forces teams. There were reports that two more boats were bought by the... Continue Reading →
According to the announcement made by Turkish General Staff, the Turkish frigate F-496 TCG Gökova escorted the cargo vessel M/V Aqua Luna as she was carrying humanitarian cargo to Somalia. The Turkish owned and Monrovia flagged freighter left the port of Mersin in late November and passed through the Suez Canal on 30th November. TCG Gökova escorted the cargo... Continue Reading →
The Combined Maritime Forces published a blog entry about the change of command ceremony for the CTF-151. The ceremony marked the end of Turkish Navy's third command of CTF-151. Turkish Navy has been an active participant to CTF-151 since its foundation in 2009. I find the following warning of Rear Admiral Karaman very important: “There... Continue Reading →
The Turkish defence magazine Defence And Aerospace run two photos that I have taken, in their last issue. Both photos show the newly installed VLS on the Gabya (ex Perry) class frigates. The magazine is about to hit the newsstands soon.
TCG Gemlik in Seychelles.
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