Mavi Balina Anti Submarine Warfare Exercise Starts Tomorrow

5 Nov 2014

Turkish Navy announced that the Mavi Balina Naval Exercise will start on 6 November 2014.

The naval exercise will be conducted in Eastern Mediterranean till 14 November 2014. The aim of the exercise is to provide the participants with submarine warfare and anti submarine warfare training.

Besides warships and submarines at least 7 ASW planes 9 ASW helicopters are going to take part in Mavi Balina too.
The below is the list of the participating warships and submarines:

F-	TCG XXX	Frigate	Turkey
F-	TCG XXX	Frigate	Turkey
F-	TCG XXX	Frigate	Turkey
F-512	TCG Heybeliada	Corvette	Turkey
F-	TCG XXX	Corvette	Turkey
S-	TCG XXX	Submarine	Turkey
S-	TCG XXX	Submarine	Turkey
S-	TCG XXX	Submarine	Turkey
S-	TCG XXX	Submarine	Turkey
A-595	TCG Yarbay Kudret Güngör	Tanker	Turkey
F-247	TCG Kemalreis	Frigate	Turkey
F-208	FGS Niedersachsen	Frigate	Germany
FFH-333	HMCS Toronto	Frigate	Canada
CG-55	USS Leyte Gulf	Cruiser	USA
F-102	ESPS Almirante Juan De Borbón	Frigate	Spain
F-84	ESPS Reina Sofia	Frigate	Spain
DDG-67	USS Cole	Destroyer	USA
FFG-260	PNS Alamgir	Frigate	Pakistan
S-90	HMS Torbay	Submarine	United kingdom

According to Turkish Navy besides the above listed units one rapid analysis team from NATO MARCOM and observers from Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Chile, Georgia, Kuwait, Lebanon will participate in the exercise.