Turkish Navy announced today that 20 mines from World War 1 and World War 2 has been found in Northern and Central Aegean and destroyed by Turkish mine hunters. These mines were destroyed in two separate occasions, on 30 November - 1 December 2013 and on 13 - 15 January 2014. Every year, mines from World... Continue Reading →
It has been a while since I have last updated the order of battle for Turkish Navy. Here is the current one, as of January 2014: Active Building Planned Submarines (Note-1) 14 1 5 Frigates 16 Corvettes 8 1 1 Fast Attack Craft – Missile (Note-2) 25 4 Patrol Craft 30 4 Minehunters/sweepers (Note-3) 19... Continue Reading →
A video showing the capsizing of the tug TCG Değirmedere has been published on the internet. This video contradicts many facts of the news story I have based my reporting earlier: apparently there is no order to abandon the ship, the trying to balance the ship. Everything happens to quickly and I hate to say... Continue Reading →
I have received a copy of the press release made by Defense Industry Undersecretariat, after posting my blog about the Turkish LPD project. I have created the below table with the information on the press release to make a comparison between the Spanish Juan Carlos, Australian Canberra and Turkish LPD, all based on the same... Continue Reading →
On 27 December 2013 the Defence Industry Executive Committee made a statement consisting of just one sentence: After the completion of the evaluation of the bids for Landing Platform Dock (LPD) project by Defense Industry Undersecretariat, on 26 December 2013, the Defense Industry Executive Committee decided to start contract negotiation with the Sedef Ship Building Company; and... Continue Reading →
The MEKO 200 Track IIB class frigate F-246 TCG Salihreis was deployed with the NATO's Standing NATO Maritime Group 2, between June and December 2013. The photos are from this deployment. The last photo is my favorite. All photos courtesy of Mr. Muhammet Metin.
I was away for a short holiday and quite important and sad things happened in my absence. So this next few post will be an effort to update this blog. The tug A-576 TCG Değirmendere capsized inside the floating dock as she was being floated. 17 people injured and sadly 10 people was killed during... Continue Reading →
The Nusret 2013 mine warfare exercise organised by Turkish Navy starts today in Çanakkale. The exercise will end on 1 December 2013 and will be conducted in Saros Bay, east of Gallipoli peninsula. According to Turkish Navy foreign participants are NATO mine warfare task force SNMCMG-2 and 1 mine hunter from Greece. From Turkish Navy... Continue Reading →
The Barbaros (MEKO 200 Track IIB) class frigate TCG Kemalreis was sighted today passing through Bosphorus with her new radar.When these ships were commissioned they had BAE Systems AWS-9 3D radar to provides long-range surveillance and target indication data. But the difficult and sometimes dangerous maintenance and the structural complexity of the AWS-9 radars made... Continue Reading →
According to the official webpage of Turkish General Staff, Turkish frigate F-497 TCG Göksu ride shot-gun to Tanzanian flagged merchant ship M/V Star Prince for ten days. The two ships rendezvoused off the coast of Jedda, Saudi Arabia and traveled together till M/V Star Price arrived its destination: Mogadishu, Somalia. She was carrying humanitarian aid... Continue Reading →
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