As the Russian ships started to return to their home ports after a long deployment in the Mediterranean it is time again for me update their traffic through the Turkish Straits: Date Number Name Direction 27/12/12 151 Azov Southbound 27/12/12 152 Nikolay Filchenkov Southbound 01/01/13 142 Novocharkassk Southbound 09/01/13 152 Nikolay Filchenkov Northbound 09/01/13 151... Continue Reading →
Today, Turkish Parliament accepted a submitted motion to extend the presence of Turkish Navy in Gulf Of Aden for one year. In 2009, Turkish Parliament gave the government the power to send units from Turkish Navy to Gulf Of Aden and adjacent waters, in order to participate the multinational efforts of anti-piracy. The as duration of this permission is limited to... Continue Reading →
After the ending of the largest(!) naval exercise of recent history Russian units started to return to their home ports. Today two large landing ships, Alligator class large landing ship 150 Saratov and Ropucha class large landing ship 151 Azov passed through the Bosphorus on their way back to home. Later during the day the... Continue Reading →
According to Russian naval news portal rusnavy.com the largest Russian naval exercise in recent years has finally ended and the ships started to return to their home bases. Largest for last ten years inter-fleet training exercises of Russian Navy with the participation of Baltic, Northern, Black Sea and Pacific Fleets in the Eastern part of the Mediterranean... Continue Reading →
The Arleigh Burke class destroyer DDG-58 USS Laboon arrived in Kuşadası for a 3 day rest and relaxation. According to news reports additional security measures on land and on sea were taken to provide protection for the ship.
Translation: An admiral to be recruited: preferable completed his/her compulsory military service knows how to swim knowledge on Office programs not related to Atatürk's reforms Applications to the Ministry of Defence. This is not funny any longer. I am not laughing.
Today, The Turkish General Staff website run a thank you note (an e-mail actually) from a recovering Turkish merchant sailor who got very ill when his ship was in Gulf of Aden 15 days ago. According to the e-mail, the sailor, electrician officer on board of M/V Tuna 7 (in the actual e-mail the name of the ship... Continue Reading →
I am very much respecting all the efforts Ukrainian Navy is putting to maintain a submarine force. Given their limited resources and their dependence on foreign counties on some critical issues they could easily give up their silent service just like Bulgarians did, or the Danish. By giving up their silent service they could have... Continue Reading →
15 years after the project has started the first plane of the Meltem project was finally handed over to the Turkish Coast Guard on 23th January 2013. When the Meltem project started, this and this aircraft were not even on drawing boards. Since then they have taken off. The plane TCSG-552 is the first of the three planes acquired for the surveillance missions.... Continue Reading →
While I was down with a severe case of flu, the editor of the fox2magazine.net (one of the few military related Greek websites I find it worth reading) send me a very interesting article from Russian origin. Apparently the Russians played a war game with the scenario of a armed conflict between Russia and Turkey. And we won. A war game for a... Continue Reading →
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