The show down between Russia and USA on the Black Sea is continuing and it seems that it will not end before the Olympics. While the US Navy warships LCC-20 USS Mount Whitney and FFG-50 USS Taylor are doing circles or "doughnuts" off the coast of Sochi, the Russians have called their Kashnin class destroyer... Continue Reading →
On 13 August 2013 Turkish frigate F-241 TCG Turgutreis passed through the Bosphorus and headed to Sevastopol in order to join the August activation of thee BlackSeaFor task force. The Ukrainian Navy is commanding the task force. This is the official Statement of Ukrainian Ministry of Defence: Today, August 14, to the port of Sevastopol... Continue Reading →
While the French, The Cypriots and the Turkish navies are busy in simulating searching and rescuing distressed people in the seas, the navies of the Black Sea countries are continuing the April 2013 activation the BlackSeaFor. Interestingly the ships of the BlackSeaFor task force did simulated a search and rescue operation in high sea among themselves. The excellent Black Sea News has a very good posting about... Continue Reading →
The warships participating in the April 2013 activation of the BlackSeaFor have arrived in Varna, Bulgaria for the event kick off. This is a video from Russian website tvzvezda.ru about the Russian participation, but many other ships are seen in the video too. Click here to watch the video
The warships of Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Ukraine and Turkey will take part in the April 2013 activation of the BlackSeaFor between 5 and 23 of April. The warship of the BlackseaFor, under the Command of Turkish Navy, will spend 6 days on the sea and 13 days visiting Varna, Constanta and Sevastopol. During this... Continue Reading →
Yesterday, after the command handover ceremony in Gölcük Naval Base, the 5 ships participating to this activation of the BlackSeaFor sailed away to their next port of call Trabzon, Istanbul. In order to this they had to pass through Bosphorus, where I was expecting them, as you can see from the photos above.
The August activation of BlackSeaFor will start today with a ceremony in Gölcük Naval Base, Izmit, Turkey. The Russian Navy will hand over the command of the BlackSeaFor to Turkey. The activation of the BlackSeaFor will end on 24th August. During that time the task force will conduct several exercises and will visit Trabzon, Turkey and Novorossiysk, Russia. Number Name... Continue Reading →
As I have reported earlier, the ships of the BlackSeafor fleet visited Istanbul between 20 and 23 April 2012. They were open to the public and I took the opportunity to visit them all. It was an interesting experience for me as I was able to compare different ships build by very different construction standards... Continue Reading →
The April activation of the BlackSeaFor finished this week and the ships that took part have returned to their home ports. Istanbul was the last stop for the BlackSeafor fleet. The following ships arrived in Istanbul on 20th April 2012 for the port visit. Number Name Nation Participants 158 RFS Tsesar Kunikov (Flagship) Russia Landing Ship F-240 TCG Yavuz Turkey... Continue Reading →
On 17th April 2012, the ships of the BlackSeaFor naval task force will end their port visit in Sevastopol, Ukraine and will be sailing again for further training. This is the google translation of the official announcement from the Ukraine Defence Ministry website: April 10-12 ships, after four-day stay in the port of Constanta (Romania), which began on April 6... Continue Reading →
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