On 20 August 2015 the Alligator class landing ship Nikolay Filchenkov made one of her passages through Istanbul. The event was not worth of remembering if there was no cargo on deck of the ship.
During their previous passages Russian landing ships never had cargo on their top deck. Thus it is worth to look closer what Nikolay Filchenkov was carrying since we have new photos from Ms. Eser Çelebiler’s blog:
The help of the new photos we can say that there are 4 KamAZ-4350 6×6 and one GAZ-66 trucks plus 4 BTR type armored personnel carriers. The other items hidden under the tarpaulin arouse the suspension most.
Any additional information or suggestions are welcomed.
Thanks to Yörük Işık and Arda Mevlütoğlu for helping me identifying the trucks and correcting my mistake in identifying the ship.
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Northbound Russian Navy training ship RFS 210 Smolniy north of Akbas 8/25/2015 09:32 hrs Above the bridge many naval cadets with red life vests observing the Dardanelles
we have not left Syria, recently there have photographed our BTR-82A
http://bmpd.livejournal.com/1443859.html
while the United States supported the recent ISIS
08/27/2015 08:00 hrs Akbas, Southbound Russian Navy Rapucha Class Landing ship 151 Azov, 158 Cezar Kunikov 08:10 hrs.
Reblogged this on J. Kevin Brent and commented:
This was the first sighting which caught the eye of Bosphorus Naval News. Here again, equipment is only store on deck like this, when the holds are full and there is no room.
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