>The Chief of Hellenic Navy General Staff Vice Admiral Georgios Karamalikis, will visit Turkey as guest of Admiral Metin Ataç, Commander of Turkish Navy.He will stay in Turey from 1st June till 5th June. This visit was decided during Admiral Ataç's visit to Athens last October, as a part of confidence building measures.Vice Admiral Karamalikis... Continue Reading →
>Deniz Kurdu 2009 Naval Exercise Part-2
>Okey, the distinguished observer day of the Deniz Kurdu 2009 naval exercise was not yesterday but today.And according to news and photos it was a day of full of action.For interesting videos of the exercise click here and here. These are courtesy of http://trsavunma.com.Of the 11 frigates, 14 fast attack craft, 8 submarines, 3 corvettes... Continue Reading →
>Deniz Kurdu 2009 Naval Exercise
>One of the most important annual exercise conducted by Turkish Navy, Deniz Kurdu is continuing in Aegean and in Med.As there is no official information about this exercise, neither on Turkish Navy web page nor on Turkish General Staff web page, I cannot tell, at the moment, when this exercise has started and when it... Continue Reading →
>Efes 2009 Military Exercise
>Efes 2009 military exercise is continuing in Doğanbey, İzmir. The exercise has started in 6th May and will continue till 29th May.The annual Efes exercises are usually conducted, with live ammunition, in late spring early summer in Doğanbey region that has a beach were amphibious landings are practised. The multinational Egemen 2009 exercies was also... Continue Reading →
>Exclusive photos from Egemen 2009
>All photos courtesy of Niel Schenk.
>Egemen 2009 Part-2
>The multinational naval exercise Egemen 2009 is over but information about this exercise keeps popping up.According to the photos, I have been send, by one of the participants in this exercise, following naval units has been identified:A-386 RFA Fort AustinA-390 RFA Wave RulerDDG-57 USS MitscherF-241 TCG TurgutreisF-49X TCG G classF-50X TCG B classL-12 HMS OceanL-15... Continue Reading →
>Admiral Yiğit in Greece
>Admiral Eşref Uğur Yiğit, Commander of Turkish Naval Fleet visited Athens this week.Admiral Yiğit, held meetings within the scope of confidence-building measures. Yiğit, who was in Athens as the formal guest of Greek Fleet Commander Vice-Admiral Ioannis Karaiskos, was the second high ranking Turkish Naval officer to visit Athens in the last 6 months.
>Egemen 2009 (Updated)
>This week a multinational military exercise called Egemen-2009, will start in Turkey.There is absolutely nothing on the Turkish news and defence portals about this exercise and about the participants except the fact that this exercise will happen. Therefore it is very difficult to determine the exact order of battle.Among the participants are Taurus 2009 task... Continue Reading →
>Greek Submarine Force
>It is getting complicated to follow the restructuring and modernisation of Greek submarine force.Hellenic navy has 8 Type 209 submarines of German origin. The first 4 of them Glavkos, Nereus, Triton, Proteus are built between 1968 - 1972 and have 1100 tons displacement. The second batch Poseidon, Amphitrite, Okeanos, Pontos are built between 1976 -... Continue Reading →
>Russian exercise in Med
>This news is from marvelous Naval Open Source INTelligence blog:Greek defence officials granted permission to the Russian navy for its aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov to use Athens-controlled airspace for "training missions" over the course of the next week.The war games will take place south of the Greek islands of Rhodes and Crete. Greek officials said... Continue Reading →
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