>If the headlines of newspapers can be a reliable indicator, then there is a lot of closed door arm wrestling between Turkey and NATO/USA. The reason for this diplomatic activity is the new missile shield NATO intents to adopt as part of the alliance's overall mission. From: Economist - Sep 24, 2009The originator of the... Continue Reading →
>Bulgarian defense ministry allowed women to serve in submarine force but the Bulgarian parliament slammed the door as it decided to decommission the country’s only submarine.The Romeo class (Project 633) class submarine, Slava was inoperational since 2000 anyway, and as reported earlier, she has been slated for decommissioning.Bulgaria's defence ministry on Thursday lifted a ban on... Continue Reading →
>F-240 TCG Yavuz, Meko 200 Track IToday is the 87th anniversary of the Turkish Republic.It is a custom of Turkish Navy to send a couple of warships to port cities and open them for public visitingThis year F-240 TCG Yavuz and F-243 TCG Yıldırım are in Istanbul. Last year F-242 TCG Fatih and F-497 TCG... 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 Turkish Navy website F-494 TCG Gökçeada was replaced with F-490 TCG Gaziantep.TCG Gaziantep will serve as the flagship of Read Admiral Sinan Ertuğrul, the commander of CTF-151 until 1 December 2010. This is the second deployment of TCG Gaziantep to the region.TCG Gökçeada ran aground 20 day ago at Mombasa, Kenya. Although there has been... Continue Reading →
>There is a new photo of MILGEM, which is quite interesting. It shows that there has been considerable progress in her construction.The installation of her main radar Smart-S Mk2 seems to be completed. The construction of the ARES-2N ES antennas located just below the Smart-S Mk2 seems to be completed as well. The complete system... Continue Reading →
> Papanikolis in Kiel I am starting believe why sailors are superstitious people. Some ships are really doomed or some are really cursed with bad luck from the start.The submarine Papanikolis supposed to be handed over to the Greek Navy today. But it turned to be a no show. Despite what I said earlier.Below is... Continue Reading →
>One of the interesting naval concepts I have seen during the Naval Systems Seminar was a design from Yonca Onuk shipyard developed with Aselsan, for anti piracy operations.As I believe this project has some potential I wanted to examine it separately.Currently most of the warships send by various nation are frigates sizing between 1500 –... Continue Reading →
>I have written my previous post after my visit at the Naval Systems seminar late at night. Now after reading by good friend Arda Mevlutoğlu’s blog post about 3. NSS I have remembered a few more things. You should read his excellent blog as he attended the second day of the seminar as well.1. TF-2000... Continue Reading →
>I have attended the first day of the naval systems seminar yesterday. The naval systems seminar has started as a one day event, three years ago. The aim was to bring the ship building industry, Turkish Navy and the procurement agency together to exchange ideas. This year’s event has spread on two days but my... Continue Reading →
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