>Last week Wall Street Journal ran an interesting article about the Greek economy and the weapon acquisition for the armed forces. For me the whole issue is a typical example of the guns or butter dilemma. Adding not too honest politicians and creative accounting into the mixture does not make things easier either. There are... Continue Reading →
>On 4 April 1953, Swedish freighter Naboland collided with Turkish submarine TCG Dumlupınar. She and her sister boat TCG 1. İnönü were returning from NATO exercise Blue Sea. At 02:15 in the morning Naboland rammed TCG Dumlupınar from starboard forecastle just aft of the forward diving planes. The submarine rolled to port with force of... Continue Reading →
>Ukraine’s sole submarine the Foxtrot (Project 641) class Zaporizya has entered into a dry dock for an overhaul in February. According to photos she needs the overhaul badly. Press Trust of India reported that Russia will help Ukraine to ensure the technical maintenance of the submarine. "We are stepping up our work. We received an application... Continue Reading →
>Ay (Type 209/1200) class submarines are the oldest boats currently in service. The oldest one was commissioned 34 and the newest one 20 years ago. When Type 214 class was chosen as the new submarine for the Turkish Navy the most obvious question was what to do with old Ay class boats. A few plans... Continue Reading →
>Type 209 class, Turkish submarine S-352 TCG Dolunay docked at Durres, Albania for a two day long visit. TCG Dolunay was one of the two Turkish submarines that participated in NATO’s annual ASW exercise Noble Manta 2010. A submarine is an interesting selection for a good will visit vessel. Submarines look uninteresting and dull from... Continue Reading →
>Every good thing must come to an end. So did NATO’s biggest ASW exercise Noble Manta 2010 ended on 24th February 2010 Wednesday. “Noble Manta 10 has allowed practicing – with excellent results - potential missions to be conducted as part of the NATO Response Force, to include conducting multi-dimensional ASW in a simulated emerging... Continue Reading →
>NATO's largest annual Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) exercise Noble Manta 2010 has started today. It will continue till 24 February.Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States will task seven submarines, 18 aircraft (including ship-based helicopters) and eight surface ships. Seven submarines, one each from France, Germany, Greece, Italy, and Spain,... Continue Reading →
>The sprit of Christmas seems to come to the managers of TK early this year. They are not only giving away the biggest commercial shipyard in Eastern Mediterranean, Hellenic Shipyards for 1 Euro, but also selling the HDW shipyard as well. HDW is the leading shipyard of designing and building conventional submarines. And they are... Continue Reading →
>The German steel giant ThyssenKrupp (TK) is selling the Hellenic Shipyards. The ThyssenKrupp Maritime systems (TKMS) a subsidiary of TK purchased the Hellenic Shipyards in 2002. Since then, 3 Type 214 class submarines for Greek Navy were built in this shipyard. The problems experienced in the Archimedes and Neptune II projects were mentioned here, here... Continue Reading →
>After the incident on board of the submarine B-871 Alrosa, Russia is left without any operational submarine in the Black Sea. Currently Russian Black Sea Fleet has two submarines. One is the Kilo class (Type 877) Alrosa and the other is Tango class B-380. The later is undergoing a lengthy modernization period and is not... Continue Reading →
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