>The exercise has started on 29 April in Karadeniz Ereğlisi and will end on May 4 in İstanbul.Turkey, Russia, Romania and Georgia are participating in this military exercise, the goal of which is to boost cooperation and mutual training among the Black Sea littoral states and support partnership for peace activities.As the exercise will end... Continue Reading →
>Raytheon and HAVELSAN Partner for FFG 7 Fleet Modernization With GENESIS Program
>This is the first time that a one of the world wide leading defense company is adding a Turkish originated product to its product range.GENESIS was conceived by the Research, Project Development, Department of Turkish Navy. They built a prototype as a proof of concept and developed the system. After the whole think got enough... Continue Reading →
>Turkey to command CTF-151
>The US Fifth Fleet announced on Friday it is transferring command of the counter-piracy international naval force CTF 151 to the Turkish Navy on May 3."The US Navy will transfer command of Combined Task Force (CTF) 151 to the Turkish Navy on Sunday May 3, 2009," Lieutenant Nathan Christensen of the Bahrain-based US Fifth Fleet... Continue Reading →
>Explosion on submarine TCG Saldıray – (Updated)
>According to maritime portals and online newspapers there has been an explosion on board of Turkish submarine S-348 TCG Saldıray today.The explosion happened when the submarine was in overhaul at the Gölcük Naval Shipyard. Two persons, one officer and one worker are reported as injured. There has been no official announcement yet.TCG Saldıray is a... Continue Reading →
>Exclusive photos from Egemen 2009
>All photos courtesy of Niel Schenk.
>Egemen 2009 Part-2
>The multinational naval exercise Egemen 2009 is over but information about this exercise keeps popping up.According to the photos, I have been send, by one of the participants in this exercise, following naval units has been identified:A-386 RFA Fort AustinA-390 RFA Wave RulerDDG-57 USS MitscherF-241 TCG TurgutreisF-49X TCG G classF-50X TCG B classL-12 HMS OceanL-15... Continue Reading →
>April activation of Blackseafor
>This years first activation of the Blackseafor fleet has started on 3th April.Turkish frigate F-242 TCG Fatih, Ukrainian auxiliary U-510 Slavutich, Russian LST 151 Azov, Romanian corvette 264 Eustatiu Sebastian, and Bulgarian frigate 11 Smeli are this years participants. The Blackseafor fleet will conduct exercise with Turkish Navy. Varios Blacksea ports Sevastopol, Novoroski, Poti, Trabzon,... Continue Reading →
>Deniz Yıldızı 2009
>Turkish Navy started a big exercise on 7th April 2009. Code named Deniz Yıldızı 2009 (Sea Star 2009) this exercise is divided in 4 phases:Phase will consists of ASuW, ASW,AAW, EW, live weapon firing, maritime situational awareness and vessel boarding inspection trainings.In phase two, multilateral trainings with the newly activated Black Sea Naval Cooperation Task... Continue Reading →
>Admiral Yiğit in Greece
>Admiral Eşref Uğur Yiğit, Commander of Turkish Naval Fleet visited Athens this week.Admiral Yiğit, held meetings within the scope of confidence-building measures. Yiğit, who was in Athens as the formal guest of Greek Fleet Commander Vice-Admiral Ioannis Karaiskos, was the second high ranking Turkish Naval officer to visit Athens in the last 6 months.
>Always reliant: The Mermaid
>According to Jerusalem Post, Israeli and Turkish Navies will participate in a search-and-rescue exercise in the Mediterranean Sea in July.This annual exercise, code named Reliant Mermaid, is organised since 1998. The objective of the exercise is to practice coordinated emergency SAR procedures and familiarize the participants with each other's capabilities. Usually US Navy always participates... Continue Reading →
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