>On 29th January 2009 Turkish defense procurement agency Undersecretariat for Defense Industries a Request for Information (RfI) document about a schooner type ship.Turkish Navy wants to have 2 three masted schooner type training ships. In the last Defence Industry Executive Committee meeting green light was given for this project. Thus the invitation for the RfI... Continue Reading →
>Last week Russian navy conducted exercises with Turkish Navy.This would hardly be in the news, if the participating Russian ships would come from Black Sea Fleet and if the exercise was held in the Black Sea.But, this latest exercise was held in the Mediterranean and the Russian participants came all the way from the Barents... Continue Reading →
>Information Dissemination, one of the most influential naval blogs, published an interesting interview with the Vice Admiral William Gortney, who is the commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command.Admiral Gortney is commanding US naval forces and personal in US CENTCOM region. The formal Area of Responsibility (AOR) of CENTCOM extends to 20 countries: Afghanistan, Bahrain,... Continue Reading →
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>Turkey plans to acquire blue prints for a torpedo from South Korea says a recently published newspaper story.The story itself has some obvious technical mistakes. It describes a wire guided heavy torpedo of 55km range and 50km speed, but names it as Blue Shark which is a light weight non-guided torpedo.Despite that technical error the... Continue Reading →
>This news is from marvelous Naval Open Source INTelligence blog:Greek defence officials granted permission to the Russian navy for its aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov to use Athens-controlled airspace for "training missions" over the course of the next week.The war games will take place south of the Greek islands of Rhodes and Crete. Greek officials said... Continue Reading →
>When a year ends, it has become more or less a custom to make some Top-(n) lists to review the important events, happenings of that year.Well, I will not make an exception. Here is a 5 point list about the most important events for Turkish Navy in 2008: The launching of F-511 TCG Heybeliada: The... Continue Reading →
>On 16th December 2008 F-496 TCG Gökova returned to her homeport Gölcük. She has spent 7 weeks south of Suez as part of SNMG-2 and took part in the Operation Allied Provider. She has escorted ships of WFP through pirate infested waters and helped other ships by deterring possible pirate attacks.When I have started this... Continue Reading →
>Ankara, 2 December 2008 – Thales announced on 2 December 2008 that the Turkish Navy’s future CN235 maritime patrol aircraft made its first flight. Modified by Thales and industrial partners TAI, Havelsan, Aselsan and Milsoft, the aircraft features the AMASCOS system (Airborne MAritime Situation and COntrol System) to provide Turkish naval forces with advanced anti-surface... Continue Reading →
>Turkish frigate F-496 TCG Gökova was in the media again. This time her fame was limited with the local Turkish media.She was last heard of when she left with MV As Salaam the port of Mombassa on 20 November with a load of 11,000 tons of humanitarian aids. According to NATO TCG Gökova escorted the... Continue Reading →
