>USS Vella Gulf in KuşadasıTiconderoga class cruiser, CG-72 USS Vella Gulf arrived for a 4 day port visit in Kuşadası Turkey.According to news reports Turkish Coast Guard provides extra security around the ship during her stay.The commander of the ship made the inevitable courtesy visit to the Mayor of Kuşadası and exchanged presents.USS Vella Gulf,... Continue Reading →
>USS Providence. Source: WikipediaLos Angeles class attack submarine SSN-719 USS Providence docked in Aksaz Naval Base in Marmaris Turkey, yesterday.Usually foreign warships visiting Turkey are hosted in the commercial ports for the ease of bringing sailors to the shore and back. But USS Providence is in naval base away from public for increased security, I... Continue Reading →
>DM-357 TCG MuavenetOn 2nd October, 18 years ago Turkish Navy experienced one of its worst friendly fire incidents. On 2nd October 1992, 11 minutes past midnight, during the NATO's Display Determination '92 naval exercise, two Sea Sparrow surface to air missiles fired accidentally from the aircraft carrier CV-60 USS Saratoga, hit the bridge of the... Continue Reading →
>USS Dubuque on the left and TCG Gökçeada on background of Magellan StarThis week’s most important naval news is the recapturing of the Antigua-Barbuda-flagged, German–owned vessel M/V Magellan Star by US Marines.On 8th September, when the pirates aborded the ship, the crew escaped to a citadel inside the ship and called for help. The CTF-151 flagship,... Continue Reading →
>FFG-50 USS Taylor, crew members participated in a compliant visit, board, search and seizure (VBSS) exercise with the Turkish navy frigate F240 TCG Yavuz July 19, during exercise Sea Breeze 2010. The two ships used the training opportunity to familiarize themselves with each other’s VBSS equipment and techniques, which is remarkably very similar as most of... Continue Reading →
>The exercise Sea Breeze will end today. But finally I was able to find the names of (almost) all participating ships:US Navy:FFG-50 USS Taylor, frigateTurkish Navy:F-240 TCG Yavuz, frigateP-330 TCG Kılıç, missile boatP-331 TCG Kalkan, missile boatUkrainan Navy:U-402 Konstantin Olshansky, landing shipU-401 Kirovograd, landing sahipU-311 Cherkassy, minesweeperU-331 Mariupol, minesweeperU-360 Genichesk, minesweeperU-206 Dnieper, frigateU-209 Ternopil frigateU-705... Continue Reading →
>Did not know, that on her way from Suez Canal, the Eisenhower Strike Group met with the Turkish Naval Task Force. Turkish task force was in Alexandria, Egypt last weekend conducting a port visit. Thus both groups had found some time to realize a Passex on their way to Turkey. There a good photos at... Continue Reading →
>Well, most probably US Navy will not base any ships earmarked for BMD defense duties in Turkey, but this week a few US warships are visiting Turkey.On Thursday destroyer DDG-64 USS Carney started her port visit in Marmaris. On the next day CVN-69 USS Dwight D. Eisenhower arrived in Antalya.According to Turkish newspaper and online... Continue Reading →
>US Navy is looking for a friendly port in Mediterranean basin to forward-deploy the surface ships that will be assigned for anti ballistic missile defence. Navy officials are considering the new home ports to keep more ballistic-missile defense ships closer to waters from which they can protect Europe from missiles. Today, BMD ships must sail... Continue Reading →
>http://www.haberler.com/video-haber/iframe/video.asp?id=2088858DDG-61 USS Ramage arrived in Bodrum for a short visit. She was in Kuşadası one month ago.I do not know why but someone in a news agency or media portal mistakenly wrote the length of the ships as 18 meters. And all other news portals are copy pasting it without thinking that something might be... Continue Reading →
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