New fleet! Somali Navy (1964)

The Somali Navy Ciidamada Badda Soomaaliyeed) is a branch of the Somali Armed Forces, now virtually inactive. It was founded back in 1964 with the help of Soviet military advisers with bases in Berbera (Gulf of Aden) and Kismayo, Indian Ocean, near the border with Kenya. There is also a radar facility in Merca.

History

The Somali Republic was formed in 1960 by the union of the former UN Trust Territory (and ex-Italian colony) of Somalia and the former British Somaliland. The country is wretchedly poor and underdeveloped; since time immemorial a sparse, predominantly nomadic population has scratched a subsistence living from arid savannah and barren uplands…

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