Today I was reading one of the hacked e-mails from the private US intelligence company Stratfor. Last year in December a hacker collective known as Anonymous claimed responsibility for crashing the Web site of the Stratfor Global Intelligence Service. The hacker declared that they have obtained the full client list including their credit cards information, as well as... Continue Reading →
New Year’s resolutions
My regular readers may have noticed that I have not been writing much in the last few days. This due to the fact that I now have a regular day job. My new job takes up most of my day so that I have little time left for my blog. So my new year's resolution... Continue Reading →
A Submarine Spotted
On 28 November 2011, one Turkish Type 209 / 1400 class submarine sailed through Bosphorus to Black Sea. Since Turkish Navy stooped painting the pennant number of the submarines on their hulls, it is impossible to identify each individual submarine anymore. While this new painting scheme helps the submarines to blend and prevents IR/FLIR/LLTV using... Continue Reading →
Bosphorus Naval News Is On DefencePoint (UPDATED)
The DefencePOint, one of the few Greek military blogs that is worth of reading has published my story about the ESSM test of Turkish Navy. They have also used the photo showing the firing of the missile from this blog. Unfortunately the bloggers at this blog (initially) forgot to mention my blog as the source... Continue Reading →
Photos from 238th Anniversary Celebrations Of Turkish Naval Academy
Turkish Naval Academy was founded in 18 November 1773. To celebrate the 238th anniversary of this occasion a small armada of Turkish warships visited Heybeliada were today the Turkish Naval High School still educates the futures cadres of Turkish Navy. Among the visitors were the first of Milgem class, TCG Heybeliada, the first of New... Continue Reading →
Notice To Mariners
There will be light posting or no blogging until further notice.
A Close Look To A KDX-II Class (Part 2)
Here are some more photos of the South Korean KDX-II class destroyer DDG-979 Gang Gam Chan. And at the end my favorite photo: Click here for A Close Look To A KDX-II Class (Part 1)
South Korean Warships In Istanbul; A Close Look To A KDX-2 Class.
Yesterday, a South Korean Naval Task Force consisting of the destroyer DDG-979 Gang Gam Chan and tanker AOR-57 Chun Jee arrived in Istanbul for a four day visit. In every three year a South Korean task force visits Istanbul periodically where a Turkish warships visits South Korea. These are the photos of the South Korean... Continue Reading →
Bosphorus Naval News Is On War Is Boring
One of the most interesting and influential blog of the military blogsphere, War Is Boring, published a photo from this website. The photo showing Turkish frigate F-241 TCG Turgutreis and British assault ship L-15 HMS Bulwark was first published on this blog on 16th April 2009. The photo was taken during the Egemen 2009 naval exercise. Unfortunately the bloggers at War Is... Continue Reading →
Somali Pirates As An Advertisement Tool
A leading Turkish home appliances and consumer electronics producers currently published a TV advertisement about their record high exports. The advertisement shows a merchant ship loaded with this companies goods being attacked by pirates in the Pacific Ocean. After taking the control of the ship the pirates are confronted by the companies appliances which were transformed into robots. The robots disarm the... Continue Reading →
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