The French Fremm-class frigate Aquitaine arrived in Antalya this morning for a port visit. I am not a fan of the French Navy’s newly adopted policy of erasing the ships' pennant numbers. While information about the ships’ deployments is available on the internet and through other media, this removal of pennant numbers only makes life... Continue Reading →
On 26 March 2014, French warship A-645 FS Alizé made a northbound passage through the Dardanelles. According to news reports her destination was not disclosed but it is safe to assume that she is heading to the Black Sea. She is a very peciluar ship to send to the Black Sea. First of all she... Continue Reading →
Russian landing ship Korolev replaces Alexander Shabalin in L'Armada event. The Ropucha class landing ship, from the Baltic Fleet, Alexander Shabalin was scheduled for a 4 day visit in Rouen for the L'Armada event. This entry is from this blog in April: The Kaliningrad and Alexander Shbalin have left Russia in mid April and I had the impression that they were heading back... Continue Reading →
The Russian ship movements have stolen the show from the actions in Eastern Mediterranean. So it is time again to focus to that region.Today between 9.00 and 13:00 the French Navy conducted a search and rescue exercise with Cyprus. The Cassard class, destroyer D-615 FS Jean Bart took part in the exercise. From Cyprus two AW -139 helicopters... Continue Reading →
I know what necrophilia means. But I think the word's definition needs some rewriting especially, after reading DCNS' intention to sell FREMM class frigates to Greece: France wants to deliver two to four new frigates to the Greek navy and to allow the highly indebted nation to postpone payment of the €300 million ($412 million) purchase price... Continue Reading →
While Eastern Mediterranean continues to be hotspot new players are trying to enter the game. One of them is France. According to Greek Daily Kathimerini: French energy companies 'Total’ and ‘Gaze de France’ bought three-dimensional seismic data for gas deposits in Cyprus' Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The cost of seismic data was over the 2... Continue Reading →
Turkish Navy personel received training in France according to French internet naval portal Mer et Marine. In order to maintain the necessary know-how for airborne ASW and AsuW missions, Ankara has thus called on twice in DCI-NAVFCO for operational training of two groups of six tactical coordinators. The mission of DCI - NAVFCO , naval component of the... Continue Reading →
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