>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 →
>Noble Manta 2009 ended
>Today the biggest NATO ASW exercise Noble Manta ended. The final press relase for the exercise can be read here.Commander Submarines, Allied Naval Forces South;Rear Admiral Leidig stated:“Noble Manta confirmed this year to be a vital tool to maintain and improve allied interoperability in all the aspects of modern warfare that involve the use of... Continue Reading →
>Noble Manta 2009 continues
>NATO’s largest annual anti-submarine warfare exercise, Noble Manta 2009 is taking place in the Ionian Sea to the Southeast of Sicily. The exercise started on 13 February and will and on 27 February 2009.Eight NATO nations are providing 6 submarines, 9 surface ships and 13 aircraft to take part in the exercise.Turkish Navy participates with... Continue Reading →
>TURRUS-2009
>Last week Russian navy conducted exercises with Turkish Navy.This would hardly be in the news, if the participating Russian ships would come from Black Sea Fleet and if the exercise was held in the Black Sea.But, this latest exercise was held in the Mediterranean and the Russian participants came all the way from the Barents... Continue Reading →
>Video: Kuznetsov in Turkey
>I have found a small video Kuznetsov steaming into Aksaz Naval Base.http://video.rutube.ru/6cbced228c06809e45b4389b20b2a517I wish I was able to tell what they are talking about but I cannot speak Russian so you must help yourself. I wonder if this video was done before or after the fire on board.
>Fire on board of Kuznetsov
>According to Turkish daily Hürriyet, a sailor died during a fire on board a Russian aircraft carrier, when she was docked in naval base Aksaz in Marmaris. The fire, lasting about two hours, was caused by a short circuit in the ship's wiring and the sailor died from smoke inhalation late on Tuesday, RIA news... 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 →
>Turkey and Russia will held a naval exercise in 2009
>According to ITAR-TASS News Agency Turkish and Russian navies are going to participate in a bilateral naval exercises in the Mediterranean in January 2009.This was announced before the scheduled visit of Russian defence minister on 18 November 2008. Click here for the whole story.
>East Mediterranean-2008
>Turkish Navy is hosting a planned invitation exercise between 2nd and 14th November 2008.The exercise Doğu Akdeniz -2008 (East Mediterranean-2008) will be held in Aegean Sea and not surprisingly East Mediterranean Sea.Frigates, fast attack craft, submarines, landing ships, supply ships, maritime patrol planes, ASW helicopters of Turkish Navy will take part in the East Med... Continue Reading →
>Turkish Minex Nusrat 2008 has started
>Minex Nusrat 2008 has started on 31th October 2008 and will continue till 8th November 2008.This exercise, organized by Turkish Navy is held in North Aegean. Among the participants are ships from MCM ships from Romanian, Greek, Royal Navy, SNMCMG-2, mine sweeping and laying ships from Turkish Navy and naval EOD forces from UK and... Continue Reading →
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