CAIRO \u2014 Egypt and Turkey have concluded a naval combat exercise.<\/p>\n
Officials said the exercise, called \u201cSea of Friendship 2011,\u201d included combat and search-and-rescue operations meant to enhance interoperability.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Egyptian Navy is highly trained and possesses modern weapons,\u201d Egyptian Navy commander Adm. Mohab Mamish said. \u201cIt\u2019s quite capable of protecting Egypt\u2019s coasts and territorial waters.\u201d<\/p>\n Officials said the multi-stage exercise, which concluded on Dec. 29, included live fire, electronic warfare and anti-mining operations. They said the exercise also brought the navies of Egypt and Turkey in anti-piracy simulations that included fighter-jets and helicopters.<\/p>\n Both militaries contributed the U.S.-origin F-16 multi-role fighters.<\/p>\n The Egyptian Air Force also contributed the SH-2G helicopter, upgraded by the U.S. company Kaman Aerospace.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Egyptian Navy\u2019s good reputation attracts the world\u2019s militaries to participate with it in joint training programs,\u201d Mamish said.<\/p>\n Officials said this marked one of the most extensive combat exercises by Ankara and Cairo. They said the two militaries would engage in several exercises in 2012.<\/p>\n \u201cWe look forward to more joint training,\u201d Turkish Navy commander Adm. Murat Bilgel said.<\/p>\n via Egypt, Turkey use F-16s in joint naval exercise | World Tribune<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CAIRO \u2014 Egypt and Turkey have concluded a naval combat exercise. Officials said the exercise, called \u201cSea of Friendship 2011,\u201d included combat and search-and-rescue operations meant to enhance interoperability. \u201cThe Egyptian Navy is highly trained and possesses modern weapons,\u201d Egyptian Navy commander Adm. Mohab Mamish said. \u201cIt\u2019s quite capable of protecting Egypt\u2019s coasts and territorial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":32532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[393],"tags":[7722,2133],"class_list":["post-48513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-egypt","tag-naval-exercise","tag-the-turkish-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}