Today we are celebrating the 94th anniversary the creation of Turkish Republic. I am grateful to those who made it possible for me and my family to live in this beautiful country under our own flag. And I can’t think of a better way to celebrate our independence with a couple of elegantly decorated ships.
Ex-US Navy frigate Duncan has found her watery grave after all. She was bought from US Navy as a spare part source for the 8 existing Gabya class frigates in service, a procedure also known as cannibalization. The hull of Duncan was observed being towed through Istanbul towards the Black Sea on 22nd March 2017. At... Continue Reading →
On 2nd October 1992, 11 minutes past midnight, during the NATO's Display Determination '92 naval exercise, two Sea Sparrow surface to air missiles fired accidentally from the aircraft carrier CV-60 USS Saratoga, hit the bridge of the Turkish destroyer DM-357 TCG Muavenet. 5 sailors including the commander of the ship were killed instantly and 15... Continue Reading →
The 27th September, the anniversary of the Battle of Preveza, is celebrated as the Navy Day. On 27th September 1538, a naval battle for the supremacy in the Mediterranean was fought between the Ottoman Navy commandeered by Barbaros Hayrettin Pasa and the fleet of a Christian alliance assembled by Pope Paul III and commandeered by... Continue Reading →
Turkish Navy signed a contract with Aselsan-Havelsan Joint Venture for mid-life upgrade on Barbaros class frigates. The scope of the contract is to replace the legacy combat management system on board of the 4 MEKO 200 Track IIA/B class frigates, commissioned between 1997 and 2000 to Turkish Navy. These frigates have TACTICOS combat management system... Continue Reading →
The fourth and last ship of Ada class corvettes, F-514 TCG Kınalıada was launched today, after 8 years and 9 months since first indigenous warship TCG Heybeliada left the slipway. Today also marked the start of a new era of Turkish warship construction. The first module of the frigate TCG Istanbul was laid on the... Continue Reading →
Turkish Naval Forces organised a national Submarine Workshop on 15. and 16. June at Tuzla Naval Shipyard. This invitation only workshop was attended by marine engineers both military and civilian, representatives of defense companies and scholars. The aim was to create a viable road map for the National Submarine, to identify competencies and competences of... Continue Reading →
Temren means arrowhead in Turkish. The missile is designed primarily to be used by naval helicopters against small surface targets. It is possible to adapt the missile to be used from small combatants in the future. The missile is a derivate of the long range anti-tank missile UMTAS developed by Roketsan. My understanding is that... Continue Reading →
A new batch of photos from Turkish Navy ATR-72-600 TMPA plane has emerged. The photos from last year showed an unpainted airplane where as this year the plane seems to be fully painted. The first plane should have been delivered back in February 2017. But like the Meltem-I and Meltem_II projects, this Meltem-III has been... Continue Reading →
During the IDEF 2015 12th International Defense Industry Fair, Turkish Navy shared the first conceptual drawing of the second generation of Milgem class. There was a poster about TCG Istanbul on the Turkish Naval Forces booth during IDEF 2017 too. I though it would be interesting to compare the photos and see how the design... Continue Reading →
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