After week of discussions and very cold war like tug of words between Russia and USA, two US Navy warships have passed through the Turkish Straits. The first ship, LCC-20 USS Mount Whitney, the flag-ship of the US 6. Fleet made her passage on 4 February 2014. The second ship turned out to be not... Continue Reading →
While the attention was turned to the passage of two US Navy warships to protect the US participants to the Sochi Olympics, the sailing vessel Kruzenshtern passed through the Bosphorus today. Like the sailing ship Mir which passed last week, Kruzenshtern is heading to Sochi too.
Today, during an awful winter storm the Russian large landing ship 102 Kaliningrad passed through the Bosphorus. The list of Russian warship movements in 2014: Date Number Name Direction 02/01/14 016 Georgiy Pobedonosets Northbound 02/01/14 156 Yamal Northbound 18/01/14 016 Georgiy Pobedonosets Southbound 18/01/14 151 Azov Southbound 27/01/14 102 Kaliningrad Southbound I have archived the... Continue Reading →
Russian sailing ship Mir passed through the Bosphorus today. She is heading to Sochi where we will be used as a floating accommodation according to Black Sea News. She had sailed from St. Petersburg on 19 December 2013, and her estimated time of arrival in Sochi is 5 February 2014. Mir is owned by Admiral... Continue Reading →
Yesterday two Russian Ropucha class large landing ships passed through Dardanelles on their deployment to Syria. One of them was 016 Georgiy Pobedonosets, from Baltic Fleet, the other was 151 Azov from Black Sea Fleet. The list of Russian warship movements in 2014: Date Number Name Direction 02/01/14 016 Georgiy Pobedonosets Northbound 02/01/14 156 Yamal Northbound... Continue Reading →
This morning we had two Russian Ropucha class landing ship returning from their Syrian Deployment. One of them was 016 Georgiy Pobedonosets, the other remained unidentified. The list of Russian warship movements in 2014: Date Number Name Direction 02/01/14 016 Georgiy Pobedonosets Northbound 02/01/14 ? ? Northbound I have archived the list of the Russian ship... Continue Reading →
In the last weeks of 2013 we are seeing a slightly increased traffic of Russian warships through Turkish Straits. The factory ship PM-138 returned to the Black Sea on 19 December 2013 where as the large landing ships Yamal, Alexander Shabalin and Nikolay Filchenkov have been deployed to the Mediterranean. The updated list of Russian... Continue Reading →
Last week two Russian large landing ship Georgiy Pobedonosets and Yamal returned from their Mediterranean deployment. And today Alexander Shabalin made her south bound passage through the Bosphorus. The updated list of Russian warship movements in 2013: Date Number Name Direction 01/01/13 142 Novocharkassk Southbound 09/01/13 152 Nikolay Filchenkov Northbound 09/01/13 151 Azov Northbound 12/01/13 142... Continue Reading →
Last week Russia and Greece signed an intergovernmental agreement on military cooperation, during the visit of Russian Defense minister Sergei Shoigu to Athens. It is worth of mentioning that this visit was conducted just before Athens will take the Presidency of EU for the next 6 months staring in 1.1.2014. Greece is NATO's only member country... Continue Reading →
It has been a while since I have updated this topic. Today the Ropucha class landing ship 110 Alexander Shabalin made a northbound passage while the tanker Iman made a southbound one. So this is the tally of Russian warship movements in 2013: Date Number Name Direction 01/01/13 142 Novocharkassk Southbound 09/01/13 152 Nikolay Filchenkov Northbound... Continue Reading →
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