>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 →
>Turkey to join CTF-151?
>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 →
>Turkish Straits Key to Georgian Crisis
>Here is my latest article, as published on December issue of Warship International Fleet Review magazine:I think I deserve a little bit of self advertisment. Please support us and buy the magazine.
>South Korea to share torpedo blue prints
>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 →
>Russian exercise in Med
>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 →
>A small review of 2008
>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 →
>Turkey to join Operation Atalanta?
>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 →
>First flight of CN235 ASW for Meltem programme
>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 →
>TCG Gökova deters pirate attacks
>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 →
>TCSG-307 and her sales drive
>On 26 January 2007, Turkish Coast Guard commissioned the fast response boat TCSG-307. The boat, locally know as MRTP-33 class, was designed and build by Turkish Yonca-Onuk shipyard. Although there are 7 similar boats in service, the TCSG-307 is unique. She is the only vessel that has STAMP remote controlled stabilized gun platform installed.In April... Continue Reading →
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