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Old 11th Jul 2012, 19:05
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TEEEJ
 
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The following Russian Navy vessels passed through the Bosphorus.

11th July

Destroyer Smetlivy = Call sign RFH70

10th July

Caesar Kunikov (Amphibious Landing Ship) = Call sign RGZ58
Nikolay Filchenkov (Amphibious Landing Ship)
Shakhtar Tug = Call sign RMUW or RCJE
SB-5 Okhtenskiy Class Tug = Call sign RMUW or RCJE

Citing Greek military sources, Greek media reported on Tuesday, that four Russian warships are sailing through the Aegean Sea to the Eastern Mediterranean. Two amphibious ships from the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the CAESAR KUNIKOV and the NIKOLAI FILCHENKOV, and two tug-boats SHAKHTAR and OKHTENSKY passed through the Turkish Straits this morning and were currently south of the Imvros Island.

According to Greek defencenet.gr portal, the Russian ships will be sailing the Aegean Sea and are expected to exit Greek waters in the dawn of Wednesday via the Karpathos-Rhodes strait.
Greek Media: Russian Warships Entered the Aegean Sea on Syria Mission - Keep Talking Greece

The only vessel sending regular Morse weather traffic is RCJE (Probably an Auxiliary and likely to be one of the Tugs). The others vessels are active in Morse but only sending encrypted HF links.

8345 Kilohertz, 11 July, 18 GMT

RCV DE RCJE 11181 99368 10266 22242 @ 1819Z

36.8N 26.6E Heading South at 6-10 Knots

Map Link

Just a quick snippet. I won't post further Morse Code weather movements as the Black Sea vessels will probably transit to Tartus, Syria.

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