The French, La Fayette class frigate F-711 FS Surcouf conducted PASSEX with Greek Cypriot Navy on 21 January 2014. The coast guard vessel CV-24 Onisilos was the Cypriot contribution to the exercise. The Surcouf sailed from Larnaca at 8:30 Tuesday, Jan. 21 after three days of release operational on the island. This is far from... Continue Reading →
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcibTSdQLYA This video was taken on board of a Turkish fishing boat in Northern Aegean. The Kaan 33 class, Turkish Coast Guard boat TCSG-308 prevented the Greek Coast Guard boats coming to close to Turkish fishing boats. On sea, size does matter.
The Dost class OPV of Turkish Coast Guard and one unidentified Turkish submarine were seen passing through the Bosphorus on 21 January 2013.
Turkish Navy announced today that 20 mines from World War 1 and World War 2 has been found in Northern and Central Aegean and destroyed by Turkish mine hunters. These mines were destroyed in two separate occasions, on 30 November - 1 December 2013 and on 13 - 15 January 2014. Every year, mines from World... Continue Reading →
The Milgem class corvette, F-511 TCG Heybeliada, the A-69 Aviso class corvette, F-502 TCG Bandırma and the Doğan class fast attack boats P-340 TCG Doğan and P-344 TCG Rüzgar are making a port visit in Kuşadası, Aydın for the weekend.The exercise named after a naval explosive ordnance disposal officer who was killed in a training accident.
Yesterday two Russian Ropucha class large landing ships passed through Dardanelles on their deployment to Syria. One of them was 016 Georgiy Pobedonosets, from Baltic Fleet, the other was 151 Azov from Black Sea Fleet. The list of Russian warship movements in 2014: Date Number Name Direction 02/01/14 016 Georgiy Pobedonosets Northbound 02/01/14 156 Yamal Northbound... Continue Reading →
The submarines are getting fashionable again by the navies of the Black Sea nations.Well not every country is happy to have a silent service in its navy. Bulgaria its sole Romeo (Project 633) class BNS Slava in 2011 and sold her bulk in December 2013, effectively ending its submarine service after 94 years.But Bulgaria is the exception. Ukraine has... Continue Reading →
It has been a while since I have last updated the order of battle for Turkish Navy. Here is the current one, as of January 2014: Active Building Planned Submarines (Note-1) 14 1 5 Frigates 16 Corvettes 8 1 1 Fast Attack Craft – Missile (Note-2) 25 4 Patrol Craft 30 4 Minehunters/sweepers (Note-3) 19... Continue Reading →
A video showing the capsizing of the tug TCG Değirmedere has been published on the internet. This video contradicts many facts of the news story I have based my reporting earlier: apparently there is no order to abandon the ship, the trying to balance the ship. Everything happens to quickly and I hate to say... Continue Reading →
This morning we had two Russian Ropucha class landing ship returning from their Syrian Deployment. One of them was 016 Georgiy Pobedonosets, the other remained unidentified. The list of Russian warship movements in 2014: Date Number Name Direction 02/01/14 016 Georgiy Pobedonosets Northbound 02/01/14 ? ? Northbound I have archived the list of the Russian ship... Continue Reading →
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