In Turkey, on January 7-16, the exercises of the Naval Forces (Navy) Mavi Vatan-2025 (“Blue Motherland -2025”) will be held.
The maneuvers will be held in the Black, Aegean Seas and the Eastern Mediterranean. On the schedule of conduct and the program of exercises at the briefing of the Navy command in the Geljuk area in the Province of Kodjaly, the admirals of the Turkish Navy informed.
The Chief of Staff of the Turkish Navy Rear Admiral Kenan Kaan Turkkan said that the Blue Rodina-2025 exercises will be held by the Navy command based on the program of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Turkey.
The purpose of the exercises is to assess the efficiency and efficiency of the commands that are part of the Navy, an increase in the level of operational readiness of the units, improve the ability to analyze and make decisions by staff officers and units in the conditions of multiple threats, as well as checking the interaction between other commands of forces and units, participating in the exercises.
“90 ships and 50 aircraft will take part in the exercises, 20 thousand personnel will be involved in total. The exercises will be attended by general-purpose helicopters and Chi-47 helicopters, Air Force command assaults, a long-range radar plane of the early warning system and air traffic controls, aircraft-baguvers and six coastal boats, ”he said.
According to Türkkan, the actual stage will begin with the withdrawal of ships from the porting ports on January 6, January 7-8 will be held for operational training, and on January 9, an honorary observer on the basis in Aksaz in the province of Marmaris will be held.
on January 10-11, visits to ports and measures to integrate logistics are planned, on January 12-13-operational training and actual combat training, he said.
At the final stage, operational actions will be carried out in the conditions of multiple threats from January 14 to 16.
During the exercises, operational preparations for the types of naval operations, the development of the actions of coastal security units and the development of actions in the conditions of multiple threats will be carried out.
In addition, the TCG ORUSREIS domestic ship will be involved in the exercises, the work on the modernization of which is completed.
During the planned suits to the ports of the Blue Homeland exercises on January 10-11, 59 Turkish ships will visit 22 ports in the Black, Aegean Seas, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.