Citizens of Istanbul saw another naval parade today. Naval parades along the Bosphorus are traditionally held either on 30. August to celebrate the Victory Day or on 29. October to celebrate the Republic Day with participation of Turkish warships. What made todays parade so interesting? Well first of all the majority of the participants were... Continue Reading →
Today the April 2011 activation of BlackSeaFor will officially begin, with a press conference on board of Romanian warship Marasesti. This year will be the 10th anniversary of the call-on naval task force BlackSeaFor. For the purpose of enhancing peace and stability in the Black Sea area, by increasing regional co-operation, and improving good relationship, the idea... Continue Reading →
>TCSG-312 with a new STAMPTurkish Coast Guard craft TCSG-312 seems to have a brand new STAMP installed.STAMP is a remote-controlled Stabilized Machine Gun Platform developed by Turkish defense contractor ASELSAN. This fast response boat locally know as MRTP-33 class, was designed and build by Turkish Yonca-Onuk shipyard. Although there are 13 similar boats in service.... Continue Reading →
>© RIA Novosti. Vyacheslav PopovRussian news agency Ria Novosti reports that the fifth Russian Mangust class patrol boat has arrived in Abkhazia to help the former Georgian republic guard its maritime border in the Black Sea.A Russian coast guard division, based at the Black Sea port of Ochamchira in Abkhazia, is expected to have up... Continue Reading →
>The coast cutter TCSG-122 will sail to Georgia on Wednesday. The cutter, currently stationed in Rize will visit Poti first. She is scheduled to arrive at Poti on 14 July. Official visits and some joint exercises will be conducted. On 15th, TCSG-122, will leave Poti for Batumi. After some more visits and exercises, she will... Continue Reading →
>According to excellent webpage http://www.navy.ru/, the French warship D-643 Jean De Vienne will visit Batumi, Georgia in July and will held joint military exercises. The visit of the French warship will last from 8 to 11 July. The ship will be open to public on 9th and 10th July.It will be not easy for the French... Continue Reading →
>According to the Blackseafor commander, the On-Call Naval Force of Black Sea navies BlackSeaFor has left the Bulgarian port of Varna to conduct its next stage of exercises. The April 2010 activation of BlackSeafor is scheduled to end on 27th April and is commanded by Bulgarian Navy.As reported earlier, the first stage of the exercises... Continue Reading →
>US frigate FFG-32 USS John L Hall is still in Georgia, conducting joint exercise with Georgian Coast Guard.Reuters has some fresh photos.
>After completing a port visit in Samsun, Turkey, USN frigate FFG-32 USS John L Hall sailed to Georgia. The US warship arrived in Georgia Thursday for exercises with the local coast guard, according to the US embassy. Of course the Russian officials have criticized the visits as provocative as they did for seven visits by... Continue Reading →
>According to defencetalk website a coastal radar station will open in Georgia in January 2010. This station is last of the three radar stations funded and builds by USA through, US Army Corps of Engineers.“The radar stations are important because they permit the Georgian Coast Guard to monitor Georgia's maritime borders and identify vessels entering... Continue Reading →
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