The Turkish Naval Task Force is currently in the Red Sea. One of the main task given to this fleet was to patrol the pirate infested waters and provide escort for merchant convoys inside the IRTC. On 6 June 2011, when pirates attacked the Liberia flagged M/V Emperor on her way to Bab El Mandeb Strait, Turkish Navy intervened.... Continue Reading →
NATO released a video showing how the US SRDRS Submarine Rescue Diving and Recompression System deployed on Exercise Bold Monarch docked with the Turkish submarine S-356 TCG Anafartalar. You will see the Commanding Officer emerge into the rescue vehicle to pass a box of Turkish Delight to his rescuers in this demonstration of a successful... Continue Reading →
On 30 May the Turkish Naval Task Force left Aksaz Naval Base in Marmaris for a 70 day deployment in the Indian Ocean. The task force is composed of F-244 TCG Barbaros as flagship, F-492 TCG Gemlik, F-493 TCG Gelibolu and A-595 TCG Yarbay Kudret Güngör. Another Turkish frigate F-491 TCG Giresun is already in... Continue Reading →
Yesterday, Air Force General Bilgin Balanlı was arrested. He is accused to be a part of the alleged Sledgehammer conspiracy. He is the highest ranking officer to be arrested in this case (yet) According to news reports his main crime might be to order periodic areal reconnaissance flights over a large farm turned into a private village... Continue Reading →
I was wondering for some time about the fate of the Somali pirates captured by Turkish Navy. The reason for my wondering was the simple fact that Turkish General Staff and Turkish Navy only informed about the arrests and there was no information available about the proceedings afterwards. Well sometimes the best information about our armed forces comes from... Continue Reading →
Turkish General Staff announced today that Denizkurdu-2011 and Efes-2011 military exercise were cancelled. The very short, one sentence statement informed that there would be no Press Day for the exercises as they were canceled. As there are no further information available speculations grow ripe. The biannual Deniz Kurdu 2011 naval exercise started on 16 May... Continue Reading →
The two training ships of the Turkish Navy A-577 TCG Sokullu Mehmet Paşa and A-579 TCG Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Paşa have ended their 3 day visit to Sevastopol today. The ships are on an annual training cruise for the cadets of Turkish Naval academy. According to Ukrainan Defence Ministry, the commanders of Turkish warships visited the Ukrainian Navy Headquarters, where... Continue Reading →
Turkish Navy's sole surviving Knox class frigate F-253 TCG Zafer is taking part in Operation Unified Protector. Or she was, as today NATO's website about the operation does not list she, but her name does appear on the Google cache of the same page. But the photo of the left leaves no doubt that TCG... Continue Reading →
I was not able to report about this earlier as putting the information I hace gathered during IDEF took much more than I have thought. Last week, during the IDEF'11, we had a US Navy destroyer visiting Istanbul. DDG-72 USS Mahan is an Arleigh Burke class destroyer. She was in Istanbul for a 3day port visit. Well actually it was just... Continue Reading →
Some time ago, I have read a very interesting and thought evoking post on the influential blog information dissemination, about the large amphibious ships (LAS) becoming the dreadnoughts of the 21. centuries maritime domain. Well read the post yourselves and decide if it is true or not. But if you ask me amphibious ships (landing... Continue Reading →
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