>The ships of Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 are in Antalya for a well deserved rest, after the ending of the naval exercise Mavi Balina 2010.The commanders of the ships, made a courtesy visit to the governor of Antalya.Click here for some photos where you do not see much. The ships will stay in town till the... Continue Reading →
More On Nusret 2010 and Mavi Balina 2010 Exercises
It is a busy week full with exercises. The Nusret 2010 mine exercise has started and is continuing in the Aegean. On Monday there was a press conference about it. According to the information shared on this conference the order of battle for the exercise looks like this: TCG Sokulu Mehmet Paşa 3 mine hunters... Continue Reading →
>The End Of The Turkish Coast Guard
>Last week it was reported that there was a notion to abolish the Turkish Coast Guard. Instead of the coast guard a General Directorate of Border Guard will be established. The law about this new structure has not been opened to discussion in the parliament but news about it already leaked out. Before we shall... Continue Reading →
>Nusret 2010 Starts On Saturday
>Apparently November will be a busy month. While Turkish submarines are playing hide and seek with Turkish and SNMG-2 frigates, SNMCMG-2 will be hunting mines with Bulgarian, Greek and Turkish mine hunters.The annual Nusret naval exercise will be held between 6 and 13 November. The aim of this exercise is to improve anti mine warfare... Continue Reading →
>USS Providence In Marmaris
>USS Providence. Source: WikipediaLos Angeles class attack submarine SSN-719 USS Providence docked in Aksaz Naval Base in Marmaris Turkey, yesterday.Usually foreign warships visiting Turkey are hosted in the commercial ports for the ease of bringing sailors to the shore and back. But USS Providence is in naval base away from public for increased security, I... Continue Reading →
>TCG Gaziantep Meets Lone Turkish Ocean Rower
>This is the kind of story that makes me sentimental and warm in side.On Monday Turkish frigate TCG Gaziantep rendezvoused with Turkish solo ocean rower Erden Eruç of the coast of Madagascar. He is committed to his human powered journey around the globe.Mr. Eruç left Australia 110 days ago and was alone since then. The... Continue Reading →
>Finally The End Of An Odyssey: Papanikolis Commissioned
>Without much fanfare or big ceremony, Greek Navy commissioned its first Type 214 class submarine HS Papanikolis, 10 years after they have ordered it and 4 years after she was completed. The boat is expected to start her voyage to Greece in a couple of weeks.Vice Admiral Dimitrios Elefsiniotis, Chief of the Hellenic Navy General... Continue Reading →
>Mavi Balina 2010 Naval Exercise
>A Gür class submarine, a possible participantTurkish Navy is hosting a naval exercise in Eastern Mediterranean Sea. The invitation exercise Mavi Balina 2010 (Blue Whale 2010) has started today and will continue till 11 November 2010.The aim of the exercise is to conduct submarine warfare and anti submarine warfare training with surface, submarine and air... Continue Reading →
>A New Photo Of Milgem
>This is the latest photo of Milgem. The painting of the hangar area seems to be completed. The main gun is installed. It is a 76mm OTO-Melara. It has the new stealth cupola for reduced radar cross section but it is different than show previously on documents on Milgem.Apparently the installation of the weapon systems... 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 →
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