Two new vessels will join Turkish Coast Guard tomorrow. The first ship of the new search and rescue ship TCSG Dost and the third ship of the class TCSG Umut are joining the Turkish Coast Guard with a ceremony held at the RMK Shipyard. The contract for the construction of 4 ships at RMK Marine Shipyard was signed on 16 January... Continue Reading →
Today I was lucky to see one of the two patrol boats constructed by Yonca Onuk shipyard for Turkish Navy. A photo of the other boat P-141 TCG Yunus 1 was made public in December 2012. This is her identical sister P-142 TCG Yunus 2. The Turkish Coast Guard is the largest customer of the... Continue Reading →
Today Greek Nay decommissioned one of her 10 Elli lass frigates F-463 Bouboulina with a solemn ceremony. Like all Elli class ships the ex Bouboulina started her life in the Dutch Navy. At that time she was known as Pieter Floriz. She was transferred after 18 years of service in Royal Netherlands Navy. She was commissioned in Greek navy... 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 →
The Turkish Coast Guard with at least 50 units is the biggest local user of fast patrol boats build by Yonca Onuk shipyard. The Turkish Navy recently started to commission boats of this shipyard. Two are used for the infiltration of special forces teams. There were reports that two more boats were bought by the... 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 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 →
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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