Frigate

Turkey continues to use a domestically-built maritime patrol aircraft in missions from the Black Sea to the Aegean and from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Libyan coast. 

The P235 was produced as a part of the Meltem-2 Project and was added to the Turkish Navy's inventory in 2014.

A story on cyberattacks published today in Kathimerini sheds light on a deficiency in Greece's national security policy. At the same time, it also points to the fact that the public discourse on national defense is being conducted with terminology from the previous century.

Turkey has nearly completed a project to make the country's first frigate as part of its national warship program MİLGEM.

MİLGEM's fifth vessel is being built under the Defense Industries Presidency and the prime contracting of leading defense company STM.

In what has been described as a show of force to Greece and Cyprus, Turkey on Wednesday launched its biggest ever naval exercise.

The "Blue Homeland 2019" exercise, with the participation of frigates, destroyers and fighter jets, takes place in the Black Sea, the Aegean and the Mediterranean through March 8.

Defense Minister Panos Kammenos on Thursday called on wealthy Greeks to contribute financially for the purchase of new frigates for the Navy, by donating into a special bank account set to open next year.

He said the action is part of an effort in 2019 to boost the capacity of the Hellenic Navy, adding that the state will contribute.

Talks between Athens and Paris with respect to Greece leasing two FREMM-type frigates have been fraught with confusion after France repudiated Alternate Defense Minister Fotis Kouvelis's claim last week that an agreement had already been struck.

Greece is to acquire two French FREMM-type navy frigates in the coming months, Kathimerini understands, with the vessels expected to be inducted into the Hellenic Navy by August, as part of efforts to boost the country's military capabilities amid rising tensions with Turkey.

Philippine senators began a public inquiry on Feb. 19 into the $300 million purchase of two navy frigates, to determine whether President Rodrigo Duterte’s closest aide had interfered in the procurement process.

A Royal Navy frigate escorted a Russian warship on Christmas Day as it passed close to British territorial waters, the ministry of defense said Dec. 26 at a time of strained relations between London and Moscow.

The Hellenic Navy demonstration in Thessaloniki on the occasion of the celebration of the anniversary of the city’s liberation and the patron saint of Saint Demetrios, was impressive and had everything: Special Forces fast-roping from helicopters, helicopters on hot pursuit of a fast craft, operational parachuting etc.