Ceremonial flag of the Azerbaijan Navy.

Azerbaijani Navy in a military parade in Baku.

The Azerbaijan Navy (Azeri: Azərbaycan hərbi dəniz qüvvələri) has about 5,000 personnel in sixteen units including the Caspian Flotilla and a Border Coast Guard. The navy has 7 patrol boats consisting out of; 2 - OSA-II-Class and 5 - Stenka-Class patrol boats. There are 7 minesweepers consisting out of; 2 - Sonya-Class and 5 - Yevgenya-Class minesweepers. There are 6 landing crafts, 2 landing cutters, 1 special purposes warship and 1 special purposes cutter. Image File history File links Az~nav. ... Image File history File links Az~nav. ... Image File history File links Military_Parade_2. ... Image File history File links Military_Parade_2. ... Municipality: Baku Area: 1000 km² Altitude: -28 m Population: 2,074,300 census 2003 Population density: 1280 persons/km² Postal Code: AZ10 Area code: +99412 Municipality code: BA Latitude: 41° 01 52 N Longitude: 21° 20 25 E Weather types: 9 of 11 Mayor: Hajibala Abutalybov The Baku region. ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ... The Caspian Sea is the largest lake on Earth by area[2], with a surface area of 371,000 square kilometers (143,244 sq mi) and a volume of 78,200 cubic kilometers (18,761 cu mi). ... A flotilla (from Spanish, meaning a flota of small ships, and this from French flotte), or naval flotilla, is a formation of small warships that may be part of a larger fleet. ... A coast guard is a national organization responsible for various services at sea. ... Categories: Ship types ... Osa I (Project 205) craft The Osa class is the Nato reporting name for a group of Fast attack craft, developed for the Soviet Navy in the early 1960s. ... USS Pivot (AM 276) World War II United States Admirable Class Minesweeper shown in the Gulf of Mexico on sea trials 12 July 1944 Image:Hameln Class. ... Landing craft Rapière LCU 1656 departs USS Bataan (LHD-5) well deck during Hurricane Katrina relief operations. ... An American-looking gaff cutter with a genoa jib set This French yawl has a gaff topsail set. ... Diagrams of first and third rate warships, England, 1728 Cyclopaedia. ...

In 2004 the U.S. Navy SEAL team from Little Creek Amphibious Base, Va., participate in joint exercises with the Azeri Army’s 641st Special Warfare Naval Unit, headquartered at the Azeri Naval Station outside Baku. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... SEALs in from the water. ...

In 2006 the US Government donated 3 updated to latest technology motorboats to the Azerbaijani navy.

Motorboat of the Azeri Navy in Baku Bay.

On May 19, 2006 Azeri and Turkish Navy held joint military exercises on safeguarding the security of oil and gas pipelines in Baku. The training session was observed by the Azerbaijan Navy commander Shahin Sultanov and Turkish Armed Forces attaché Seyhan Ceyhan. The activities aimed to ensure the safety of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC), the main export pipeline to take Caspian oil to Turkey and further to world markets, as well as on expanding cooperation between the two countries’ military. The exercises started with the clearance of mines that ended up on the sea-bed. This was followed by rendering harmless the traps planted in the area by symbolic terrorists. The training concluded with the practice of a maritime and air operations. A similar exercise is expected to take place in Turkey soon^[1]. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (3008x1960, 600 KB) http://www. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (3008x1960, 600 KB) http://www. ... May 19 is the 139th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (140th in leap years). ... Seal of the Turkish Navy Turkish Navy (Turkish: ) is a branch of the Turkish Armed Forces. ... Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) (Turkish: Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri (TSK)) consists of the Army, the Navy (includes Naval Air and Naval Infantry) and the Air Force. ... The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline (sometimes abbreviated as BTC pipeline) transports crude petroleum 1,776 km from the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli oil field in the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. ...

^{[edit] Caspian Guard Initiative}

^{The Caspian Guard Initiative is a framework program designed to coordinate activities in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan with those of U.S. Central Command and other U.S government agencies to enhance Caspian security. The initiative assists the two countries in improving their ability to prevent and, if needed, respond to terrorism, nuclear proliferation, drug and human trafficking, and other transnational treats in the Caspian region. EUCOM is responsible for operations in Azerbaijan[2].} The U.S. European Command (EUCOM) is Unified Combatant Command of the United States military, headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. ...

The flag of the Commander in Chief Image File history File links Size of this preview: 360 × 216 pixelsFull resolution (360 × 216 pixel, file size: 9 KB, MIME type: image/png)The flag of the Commander in Chief of the Azerbaijan Navy. ...

The flag of the Chief of the Naval Staff Image File history File links Size of this preview: 360 × 216 pixelsFull resolution (360 × 216 pixel, file size: 9 KB, MIME type: image/png)The flag of the Chief of the Naval Staff of the Azerbaijan Navy. ...

The flag of the commander of a group Image File history File links Size of this preview: 360 × 216 pixelsFull resolution (360 × 216 pixel, file size: 9 KB, MIME type: image/png)The flag of the commander of a group of the Azerbaijan Navy. ...

^{[edit] See also}

• ^Azerbaijan
• ^{Military of Azerbaijan}
• ^{Azerbaijan Army}
• ^{Azerbaijan Air Force}
• ^{Azerbaijan Air Defense Force}
• ^{Azerbaijan National Guard}
• ^{Azerbaijan Border Guard}
• ^{Azerbaijan Interior Guard}
• ^{Azerbaijan Coast Guard}
• ^{Caspian Guard Initiative}