I am sure that the good people of Thales are in a celebration mood. Here is an excerpt form their press release: Thales announces the delivery of the final standard for the maritime patrol aircraft to Turkey as part of the MELTEM II programme, for which Thales is the prime contractor. To this day, five... Continue Reading →
These are the photos from the passages of Turkish warships through Bosphorus in the last 10 days.
The last few days we were able to witness a couple of Turkish warships on Bosphorus. The Rhein class tender, A-579 TCG Cezayirli Hasan Paşa is a ship with many missions. She and her sister TCG Sokullu Mehmet Paşa are used for the training cruises of midshipmen of Turkish Naval Academy. The two ships are... Continue Reading →
On 4 April 1953, in the wee hours of the morning two Turkish submarines TCG Dumlupınar and her sister boat TCG 1. İnönü,entered from the Aegean into the Dardanelles Strait, as the returning from the NATO naval exercise Blue Sea. The Commodore of First Submarine Squadron was in command of the two submarines and he was on board of TCG Dumlupınar. When... Continue Reading →
Turkish Navy is going to conduct a large-scale exercise in Black Sea and Marmara Sea. The exercise Deniz Yıldızı 2014 will be held between start on 7 and 11 April 2014. There is a long list of participating units as purpose of the exercise is to try to improve operations performed and fleet or task... Continue Reading →
On 18 March,we have celebrated the victory of against the Allied Fleet in 1915. I am honored and delighted to share some of the excellent photos Mr. Ahmet Güven, a very dear contributor to these blog before shared these beautiful photos.
Today on 19 March 2014, in the early morning hours, one Turkish Type 209 / 1400 class submarine sailed through Bosphorus to Marmara Sea. I want to hope that she has spent very busy days back in the Black Sea monitoring all the naval traffic and gathering intelligence. Since Turkish Navy stopped painting the pennant number... Continue Reading →
The flagship of the Ukrainian Navy, the Krivak III (Project 1135.1) class frigate Hetman Sahaidachny passed through the Turkish Straits today and is now in the Black Sea. I have no information about her destination. It can be Sevastopol or Odessa. We will know better tomorrow. The ship was doing anti piracy operations first with the CTF-151 and... Continue Reading →
Yesterday, the creation of Barbaros Task Force was made public in a press conference held at the Fleet HQ in Gölcük Naval Base. This task force (TF) consisting of the frigates F-495 TCG Gediz, F-245 TCG Oruçreis, the corvette F-511 TCG Heybeliada and the replenishment tanker A-595 TCG Yarbay Kudret Güngör. The TF will set... Continue Reading →
The Dost class OPV of Turkish Coast Guard and one unidentified Turkish submarine were seen passing through the Bosphorus on 21 January 2013.
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