Sea Shield 2017 Naval Exercise

4 Feb 2017 1 Comment

Spanish warship ESPS Almirante Juan de Borbon passed through Turkish Straits to take part in the exercise.

Once again Romania is hosting Sea Shield naval exercise. The exercise will take place between 1st and 11th February 2017. The exercise started with the planning and familiarization phase which will end on 5th February.

The participants have already arrived at the Romanian port Constanta for this year’s exercise. Besides, Romania, Bulgaria, Canada, Spain, Turkey and U.S.A. have deployed warships. The only submarine of the exercise is TCG Dolunay. She will play the role of the hunter and the hunted.

According to the press release of the Romanian Naval Forces, 2800 military personnel is taking part in the exercise. Romania will provide besides warships two mobile missile-launchers, a special-operation detachment, two MiG 21 Lancer airplanes and a medical-evacuation helicopter. Turkey has also dispatched one CN-235 ASW patrol plane.

This is the list of the participating naval units:

Number	Name	Type	Country
11	BGS Smeli	Frigate	Bulgaria
340	HMCS St John’s	Frigate	Canada
F-221	ROS Regele Ferdnand	Frigate	Romania
111	ROS Marasesti	Frigate	Romania
265	ROS Admiral Horia Macellariu	Corvette	Romania
264	ROS Admiral Eustatiu Sebstian	Corvette	Romania
190	ROS Lastunul	Corvette	Romania
188	ROS Zborul	Corvette	Romania
25	ROS Lieutenant Lupu Dunescu	Mine sweeper	Romania
29	ROS Lieutenant Dimitrie Nicolescu	Mine sweeper	Romania
F-102	ESPS Almirante Juan de Borbon	Frigate	Spain
F-242	TCG Fatih	Frigate	Turkey
S-352	TCG Dolunay	Submarine	Turkey
78	USS Porter	Destroyer	USA

Filed under Black Sea, Exercise Tagged with Black Sea, Bulgarian Navy, Canadian Navy, Exercise, NATO, Romanian Navy, SNMG-2, Spanish Navy, Turkish Navy, US Navy

One Response to Sea Shield 2017 Naval Exercise

Azat says:

7 Feb 2017 at 18:23

You realy think that this drill will help you to show Russia the power wich can stop them? It’s necessary to understand that at this moment army of the Russian Federation is powerful organization wich provide real security of the goverment border.