Today, on 26 April 2011, the April 2011 activation of the BlackSeaFor has ended. The task force of following ships, left Russian port Novorossiysk after a 3 day visit and returned to their home ports. Pennant Ship Type Country F-240 TCG Yavuz Frigate Turkey F-42 BGS Verni Frigate Bulgaria P-24 GCG Sokhumi Patrol Boat Georgia... Continue Reading →
BlackSeafor Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary
Citizens of Istanbul saw another naval parade today. Naval parades along the Bosphorus are traditionally held either on 30. August to celebrate the Victory Day or on 29. October to celebrate the Republic Day with participation of Turkish warships. What made todays parade so interesting? Well first of all the majority of the participants were... Continue Reading →
April Activation of BlackSeaFor
Today the April 2011 activation of BlackSeaFor will officially begin, with a press conference on board of Romanian warship Marasesti. This year will be the 10th anniversary of the call-on naval task force BlackSeaFor. For the purpose of enhancing peace and stability in the Black Sea area, by increasing regional co-operation, and improving good relationship, the idea... Continue Reading →
Ukraine Completes Its Evacuation From Libya
Exactly at midnight of 23th March 2011, the Ukrainian Ropucha 1 class landing ship U-402 Konstantin Olshansky, departed from Sevastopol to conduct Non-Combatant Evacuation of Ukrainian citizens trapped in Libya. She has passed through Bosphorus on 24 March 2011 early in the morning and left Turkish territorial waters late at night. She spent a few days off the coast of Libya,... Continue Reading →
>Ukraine Sends A Warship To Libya While Romania And Bulgaria Prepares One
>U-402 Konstantin Olshansky. NATO photo.Exactly at midnight of 23th March 2011, the Ukrainian Ropucha 1 class landing ship U-402 Konstantin Olshansky Sevastopol to conduct Non-Combatant Evacuation of Ukranian citizens trapped in Libya.She has passed through Bosphorus on 24 March 2011 early in the morning and left Turkish territorial waters late at night.According to Ukrainian Goverment Portal the ship can accommodated 500 to 600... Continue Reading →
>The Chief Of Staff Of Ukraine Gen. Pedchenko Visits Turkey
>Official photo from Turkish General Staff.The Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,Colonel-General Grigory Pedchenko is in Turkey for an official visit.Yesterday Colonel-General Pedchenko visited hisTurkish counterpart General Işık Koşaner.According to the Ukrainian side the parties discussedkey issues and future prospects of cooperation between the armedforces of both countries.Special attention was paid to the development... Continue Reading →
>Submarine News Around The Region
>As I go trough the backlogof stories accumulated while I had no PC, I found these two news of special interest:Zaporizhzhya with engines running. Photo: e-CrimeaThe work on Zaporizhzhya: Zaporizhzhya is Ukraine's sole Foxtrot class (Project 641) submarine. She has entered into overhaul in February 2010. She is being overhoauled in 13th Repair Unit with... Continue Reading →
>Wikileaks And Turkish Navy
>When every important institution was some how effected by these cable it would be foolish to assume that Turkish Navy would be left out.According to one cable send by US Ambassador MR. Tafft from Kyiv the former Ukrainian President Mr. Kuchma thinks that the Russian Black Sea Fleet is not a match against the Turkish... Continue Reading →
>Turkey To Train Ukrainian Submariners?
>The Russian naval website rusnavy.com reports that Turkey might help Ukraine with the training of the Ukraine submariners.Ukrainian defense minister Mikhail Yezhel told that he will meet with Turkish counterpart during the visit to Albania, where he will attend annual session of the Southeast Europe Defense Ministerial."We're going to discuss issues of air information exchange and... Continue Reading →
>New Ships For The Russian Black Sea Fleet
>The Russian naval website rusnavy.com reports that Russian Black Sea Fleet will receive six Admiral Gorshkov class (Project 22350) frigates, six Lada (Project 677) diesel submarines, two Ivan Gren class (Project 11711) large landing ships, four ships of other projects, modernized bombers Su-24M instead of obsolete versions, and ASW aircrafts, Il-38 instead of amphibious aircrafts... Continue Reading →
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