The first pair of offshore Patrol vessels of the Turkish Coast Guard have arrived to their home ports and started to their duties. SG-701 TCSG Dost is located in Samsun and SG-703 TCSG Umut is located in Marmaris. TCSG Dost started her duties in the Black Sea on 19 May 2013. It is not clear... Continue Reading →
There are a lot of things going on in the Eastern Mediterranean lately. First: The Russians are here. The long, west bound voyage of the Russian Pacific Fleet task force has ended. The ships have arrived in the Med and are in Cyprus for a well deserved rest.The Udaloy class destroyer Admiral Panteleyev, the Dubna class tanker Pechenga and the Baklazhan... Continue Reading →
The largest annual exercise of the Turkish Navy Deniz Kurdu has started on 20 May 2013. Vice Admiral Bülent Bostanoğlu, Commander of the Fleet is in charge of the exercise. The participating ships left their port in Gölcük, Foça and Aksaz. The exercise will be conducted in the Marmara, the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean. According to Akşam newspaper F-243... Continue Reading →
The training ship A-577 TCG Sokullu Mehmet Paşa and the transporter A-1600 TCG İskenderun are in Odessa, Ukraine for a 3 day official visit. The ships are carrying the students of the Turkish Naval Petty Officer Vocational School. Their first port of call was Samsun, Turkey. The ships will sail to Varna, Bulgaria after leaving Odessa. According to the blog Ships Bk, this... Continue Reading →
The heavy edited announcement from the Italian aircraft maker Aleina Aermacchi made it sound so nice, it was too good to be true. Alenia Aermacchi has signed an agreement with Savunma Sanayii Müsteşarlığı (SSM), the Turkish Undersecretariat for Defence Industries to deliver two ATR 72-600 TMUA (Turkish Maritime Utility Aircraft) and six ATR 72-600 TMPA (Turkish Maritime Patrol Aircraft)... Continue Reading →
As the Russian task force from The Pacific Fleet arrives the Mediterranean the crossing of the Black Sea and Baltic Fleet ships continue without any pause. According to Turkish news portals the Ropucha class large landing ships Azov, Kaliningrad and Alexander Shabalin have returned to their Black Sea base in 11 May 2013. Apparently it was a short stay... Continue Reading →
Today is the 230th anniversary of the establishment of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. During a speech, Fleet Commander Vice-Admiral Alexander Fedotenkov, told that Russia plans to add 20 ships to its Black Sea Fleet The Russian Black Sea Fleet will be updated and improved to ensure the country's national security. Up to 20 new ships, submarines... Continue Reading →
As reported earlier last week we had an unusual guest. The Russian Dergach class air cushion corvette 615 RFS Bora made her maiden foreign visit to Istanbul during the IDEF 2013 defense exhibition. I don't know if the ship has received any visitors, as she was docked almost 30 kilometers (18 miles) away from the exhibition center. I was... Continue Reading →
Russian naval ships continue to pass through the Turkish Straits without slowing their tempo. Today the Alligator class landing ship Nikolay Filchenkov passed through the Dardanelles and entered into Marmara Sea. I was not aware that she had returned to the Mediterranean after I have seen in January. The Nikolay Filchenkov was not the only Russian warship seen in... Continue Reading →
The renowned Pakistani Naval expert and journalist Usman Ansari mentioned in his article in the May issue of the Warships International, about the Aman 2013 exercise, that Pakistani Navy has acquired the GENESIS combat management system for its Perry class frigate F-260 PNS Alamgir. This is the first official acknowledgement that Turkey has sold the GENESIS CMS... Continue Reading →
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