Turkish frigates have anchored in Albanian ports.
TCG Kemalreis and TCG Giresun frigates along with TCG Akar logistic support ship anchored in Port of Durres while TCG Gaizantep and TCG Turgutreis frigates anchored in Vlore Port.
The frigates are in the Adriatic on a mission aiming to strengthen cooperation with friendly and [...]
Four warships of Turkish Navy will take part in the major air force exercise. Turkish Air Force operates in Konya a big training facility where Turkish Air Force and participating air forces of other nations can simulate any kind of air to air or air to surface combat operations.
The exercises held [...]
Turkey’s military says navy commandos aboard a frigate have captured 13 pirates in the Indian Ocean.
The military says the commandos aboard Turkey’s TCG Gelibolu stopped the pirate vessel on Sunday as it sailed off the Seychelles on a route being used by a Turkish freighter heading to Mombassa, Kenya.
The commandos captured the pirates, destroyed their [...]
An international task force of the Black Sea naval group completed on Friday the first stage of BLACKSEAFOR naval drills.
BLACKSEAFOR was formally established in 2001 on Turkey’s initiative and comprises Turkey, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Romania, Georgia and Russia. It conducts search and rescue operations and environmental monitoring, and organizes goodwill visits to Black Sea countries.
This year’s drills are [...]
The United States will retire its sea-based nuclear Tomahawk missiles within a few years, believing it has other ways to defend Northeast Asia, a Pentagon official said Wednesday.
The elimination of the missile — supported in the past by some policymakers in Japan and South Korea — was part of a policy shift announced Tuesday by [...]
Recently, a U.S. Navy frigate, operating in the eastern Pacific, used its MQ-8B helicopter UAV to detect a high speed cocaine smuggling boat. After tracking the smuggler for three hours, the fast boat halted alongside a fishing boat and refueled. A Coast Guard boarding team, from the frigate, then closed in and made arrests. They [...]
The commander of the Turkish Naval Forces defended the late Navy Col. Berk Erden, who was alleged to have committed suicide Monday because of allegations about his private life, at Erden’s funeral.
Adm. Eşref Uğur Yiğit attended Erden’s funeral Wednesday, saying military personnel are stressed by those kinds of circumstances. Military personnel like Erden are raised [...]
Turkey has recently revived an ambitious program to build six anti-air warfare frigates to bolster its Navy’s defense capabilities, a project which it had to shelve nine years ago because of a severe economic crisis.
The Undersecretariat for Defense Industries, Turkey’s defense procurement agency, in early March collected information from several foreign and domestic companies seeking [...]
The Turkish Navy is preparing to buy its first landing-platform dock able to carry up to eight helicopters as it seeks to gain the capability for overseas amphibious force deployment as part of NATO and peacekeeping efforts.
The prime contractor for the $500 million project will be a local company, but because of the high degree of technology [...]
ANKARA – Turkey has received responses to its January request for information from several foreign and domestic companies seeking to help build six anti-air frigates to a local design.
Turkey’s defense procurement agency, the Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (SSM), obtained information on directed infrared countermeasures, electric generation and distribution systems, heating-ventilating-air conditioning, integrated platform management systems, [...]
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