>When every important institution was some how effected by these cable it would be foolish to assume that Turkish Navy would be left out.According to one cable send by US Ambassador MR. Tafft from Kyiv the former Ukrainian President Mr. Kuchma thinks that the Russian Black Sea Fleet is not a match against the Turkish... Continue Reading →
>Turkey To Train Ukrainian Submariners?
>The Russian naval website rusnavy.com reports that Turkey might help Ukraine with the training of the Ukraine submariners.Ukrainian defense minister Mikhail Yezhel told that he will meet with Turkish counterpart during the visit to Albania, where he will attend annual session of the Southeast Europe Defense Ministerial."We're going to discuss issues of air information exchange and... Continue Reading →
>New Ships For The Russian Black Sea Fleet
>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 →
>Explosion On Board LSM Kirovograd (UPDATED)
>According to UNIAN news agency there was a blast on board of Ukrainian Polnochny (Project 773) class LSM Kirovohrad. The details are not much, but I believe more information will come soon. Four servicemen were severely injured when two artillery shells exploded onboard the medium-sized assault landing ship Kirovohrad of the Ukrainian Navy during a... Continue Reading →
>BlackSeaFor in Ukraine
>On Friday 20th August 2010, the ships with the Black Sea Naval Cooperation Task Group Blackseafor arrived at the port of Sevastopol, Ukraine in accordance with the plan of the Blackseafor regular activation, according to the press center of the Ukraine Navy.Click here to read more. It is a pity that Istanbul is not among the... Continue Reading →
>Order Of Battle For Exercise Sea Breeze 2010
>The exercise Sea Breeze will end today. But finally I was able to find the names of (almost) all participating ships:US Navy:FFG-50 USS Taylor, frigateTurkish Navy:F-240 TCG Yavuz, frigateP-330 TCG Kılıç, missile boatP-331 TCG Kalkan, missile boatUkrainan Navy:U-402 Konstantin Olshansky, landing shipU-401 Kirovograd, landing sahipU-311 Cherkassy, minesweeperU-331 Mariupol, minesweeperU-360 Genichesk, minesweeperU-206 Dnieper, frigateU-209 Ternopil frigateU-705... Continue Reading →
>Sea Breeze 2010
> The exercise Sea Breeze 2010 is about to begin in Ukraine this week. The annual exercise Sea Breeze was usually held as a bilateral organization where Ukraine and the United States are the main participants. Other countries are invited as necessary. This year’s main focus will be fighting sea piracy. The exercises will involve... Continue Reading →
>Renewal of Naval Relations Between Russia and Ukraine
>Since Viktor Yanukovych’s election as Ukraine president the ties between Russia and Ukraine is improving on the naval front. The relations between two countries were at low ebb after 2008 Caucasian war. At that time Ukraine Forbid Russia to use warships based is Sevastopol to be used in a war. But since February 2010 the... Continue Reading →
>The Resurrection Of The Russian Black Sea Fleet
>Эй, ухнем!Эй, ухнем!Ещё разик, ещё да раз!"All together!All together!Once more, once again, still once moreThe famous "Ei Ukhnyem", or "The Song of the Volga Boatmen" starts with a deep, slow and heavy chorus, slowly increasing in tone. It is a motivational song, helping the exhausted Burlaks endure the burden, struggle more, once again, once more.... Continue Reading →
>Strategic And Military Importance Of The Sevastopol Basing Agreement
>Last week both Ukrainian Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) and Russian Parliament (Duma) ratified the agreement between Russia and Ukraine to extend the use of Sevastopol naval base in Ukraine for Russian Black Sea Fleet (BSF) for 25 more years after May 28, 2017.Dr. Dmitry Gorenburg, argues that this agreement has more strategic value than military as... Continue Reading →
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