Today is the 89th 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 visiting. This year F-240 TCG Yavuz and F-496 TCG Gökova are in Istanbul. TCG Yavuz and TCG Gökova weren't the only ships opened to the public. Below is... Continue Reading →
Turkish intelligence agency "National Intelligence Organisation" (MIT) is planning to procure an intelligence gathering ship. The ship will be maned and maintained by Turkish Navy but the operators of the intelligence gathering section will be MIT staff. In January 2012 the main Turkish signals intelligence (SIGINT) organization, General Staff Electronic Systems Command (GES) was handed from Turkish General Staff to National Intelligence Organisation.... Continue Reading →
Some Turkish online news portals reported that the Russian destroyer Smetlivy returned back to the Mediterranean Sea on 19th October 2012. The Kashin Class destroyer was in the Mediterranean, of the coast of Syria in spring, between 2nd April 2012 and 31st May 2012. Her passage of that time was reported in detail in this blog at that time. Any additional information about the... Continue Reading →
Tidbits from the thing that happened during the week: 1) General Necdet Özel, the Chief of General Staff and the Commander of Turkish Armed Forces visited Naval units this week. On Tuesday he was at the main naval base in Gölcük, Kocaeli and visited and inspected the Naval Command and some undisclosed units. On Wednesday... Continue Reading →
This is a reblog from Combined Maritime Forces's blog.
Some more information and gossip from the 5th Naval Systems Seminar. Click here to read the first part on Bosphorus Naval News. In November, F-511 TCG Heybeliada, the first ship of the Milgem class corvettes will leave for her first overseas deployment, to the Gulf of Aden. It is not clear at the moment if... Continue Reading →
It is once again that wonderful time of the year when we gather in Ankara and discuss the proceedings of Turkish naval ship building industry. The 5th Naval Systems Seminar has started today. Deputy Undersecretary (Platform Projects) Mr. Serdar Demirel, and Head of Naval Platforms Department Mr. Mustafa Şeker made important presentation where they summarized... Continue Reading →
According to the ADİK shipyard's web site the first ship of the New LCT class Ç-151 will participate to the joint Turkish-Egyptian naval exercise Sea of Friendship (Bahr El Sadaka). In 2007, Undersecretariat for Defence Industries (UDI), submitted a Request for Proposal for 8 LCT’s. These new vessels were to be built in Turkey and had to be fast.... Continue Reading →
According to the excellent Black Sea News website, The Bulgarian Navy is sending the frigate F-41 BS Drazki to NATO's Operation Active Endeavor. The frigate has left her home port Burgaz Naval base on 5th October 2012 and may have passed through the Bosphorus today. It is not clear however how long this deployment will... Continue Reading →
Well the DHA story about the naval activity in Gölcük Naval Base was not completely useless. This is the first public photo of the frigate TCG Salihreis with her brand new 3D Smart-S Mk2 radar. The last batch of 4 MEKO 200 frigates were delivered to Turkish Navy with AWS-9 3D radars of British origin.... Continue Reading →
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