Indian Navy Developments & Discussions

[Dark Sorrow]

Derby is capable but not as good as R-77.

R-77 is the standard BVR on most of IAF fighters like Mig-29,Su-30MKI.

y did the IN not consider to upgrade Harriers by R-77?

A standard 2032 without modifications cannot use R-77. The bus architecture of Harrier is unable to support R-77.

 

[Dark Sorrow]

According to my knowledge EL\M-2032 can be modified to fire R-77 . It was the radar which was considered in mid 2000's as a replacement of MMR on Lca & Lca's Primary BVR is R-77 & Astra.So it should be capable of handling R-77.

As I said early the standard version of 2032 can't fire R-77. The radar that was going to be used on LCA was to be a hybrid of MMR and EL/M-2032 with mainly Indian Software. This software would have made the radar compatable with the missile.

 

[Sridhar]

Navy to network-target test Derby AAM from upgraded Sea Harrier

Tuesday, July 07, 2009
EXCLUSIVE: Navy to network-target test Derby AAM from upgraded Sea Harrier

As part of the Limited Upgrade Sea Harrier (LUSH), the Indian Navy will shortly conduct its second live firing test of the Israeli Derby beyond visual range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM), a weapon system that has been integrated to the last of the Navy's Sea Harriers as part of the upgrade programme. While the first live firing of the Derby active-radar seeker missile was conducted using the aircraft's primary sensor, the next test will be from one of the Navy's upgraded Sea Harriers with its radar switched off. Guidance will be provided from another platform, either on the ground or in the air.

According to Navy sources, the LUSH programme has made the Sea Harriers fully new aircraft. The heart of the upgrade is of course the replacement of the venerable old Ferranti Blue Fox monopulse airborne intercept radar with the time-tested EL/M-2032 multimode advanced pulse doppler radar. The new radar, in the words of one of the pilots, has put the aircraft in "a different league". While sea clutter proved to be the bane of look-down missions with the Blue Fox radar (the sweep would be swamped), the Elta sensor has none of those issues.

Of the eight Sea Harriers involved in the LUSH programme, six have been upgraded and delivered back to the Navy, while two are currently being upgraded by HAL. The INS Viraat, currently undergoing a mini-refit in Kochi, will be back in service by September-October, and will have the LUSH Harriers on board.

LiveFist: EXCLUSIVE: Navy to network-target test Derby AAM from upgraded Sea Harrier

 

[Daredevil]

Already posted here

http://www.defenceforum.in/forum/bombs-missiles-wmd/3168-navy-network-target-test-derby-aam.html

Please, Merge.

 

[venom]

With both the RN and RAF sending their Sea Harriers and GR. Harriers operating from their carriers into an untimely retirement,thanks to drastic budget cuts,the IN has an excellent option to acquire as many of these which can be picked up at reasonable cots.The aircraft have at least another 10-15 years of life in them,and with the LUSH upgrades,will be particularly useful for any future flattops of the IN apart from any flattop amphibious vessels built.Since the naval variant of the LCA has yet to fly,the Harriers will be an excellent companion for the MIG-29Ks aboard the Gorshkov/Vikrant.

 

[Sridhar]

Indian Navy to conduct coastal security exercise on Orissa coast soon

BY: orissadiary

The Indian Navy would conduct a coastal security exercise course with the coastguard and marine police in toe in the Orissa coast by the end of this month.
It was announced by the senior officials of the Indian Navy after holding a meeting with state Home Secretary at the secretariat on Monday.
The naval officer-in charge of Orissa, Commander MVS Kumar said “the navy along with the coastguard would strengthen its surveillance along Orissa coast keeping in mind the brazen Mumbai terror attacks recently. A naval exercise would be conducted, which can play a crucial role in closely monitoring the suspected movements along the sea coast”. According to Kumar, the Naval exercise would basically carry out tactical operations, including launching counter attacks in case of possible terror strikes. The marine police, state intelligence and coastguard personnel will be given training during the Naval exercise, he said.

IDRW.ORG Blog Archive Indian Navy to conduct coastal security exercise on Orissa coast soon

 

[ZOOM]

Just 1 boat for every 100 km

Just 1 boat for every 100 km


On March 10, 2008, two Lashkar-e-Tayyaba militants had told Jammu and Kashmir police that they were part of a group of eight militants who infiltrated into India using the sea route.

The militants Abdul Majeed and Mohammed Jameel told police that they had crossed over from Karachi to Mumbai.

On November 26 the same year, 10 heavily armed LeT men used the sea route again to enter Mumbai and hold the city to ransom for 60 hours.

Seven months after the Mumbai terror attacks, the country’s coastal security apparatus remains poor.

As HT found out, the Indian Coast Guard — entrusted with patrolling India’s 7,500 km-long coastline has a fleet of only 76 vessels. This means one Coast Guard vessel patrols 98.6 km of the coastline.

What is worse, coast guard officials say that not all their vessels are out at the sea at any given point.

So, how many vessels does that effectively leave for patrolling? Deputy director general of Indian Coast Guards A.

Rajashekar refused to comment. He also did not respond to queries sent via e-mail.

A Coast Guard official, requesting anonymity, as he is not authorsied to speak to the media, said: “To patrol the susceptible 3,300 km coastline in the western region with proximity to Pakistan, we have only 25 vessels, which is one vessel to patrol 132 km.”

“When the government could buy 1,000 aluminum coffins at exorbitant costs after the Kargil war, I do not see a reason why it cannot strengthen the Coast Guard and put a consolidated coastal security apparatus in place,” said Ajay Sahni, executive director, Institute for Conflict Management.

“If we consider only the vessels capable of patrolling deep sea, the area a single vessel would be patrolling will increase drastically,” he added.

Also, existing vessels are divided for use in three different regions — in the western region extending from Gujarat to Kerala, the eastern region from West Bengal to Tamil Nadu and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. This has resulted into all the three regions being highly under-equipped.

Consider this: The US coast guard, after the 9/11 attack, augmented its fleet and now has one boat for every 16 km of its 19,924 km coastline and Singapore has one boat for every 1.15 km of its 193 km coastline.

Sahni also trashed the proposed unified command system for coastal security, with navy as the nodal agency, terming it cosmetic.

“The only reason for roping in the navy is that it has better facilities for communication. But it is not a force created for policing,” he said.

He added that the Navy should not be involved in coastal security. “It is a task that will blunt the very purpose of the navy. The navy like the Army, should be called in only for emergency duties.”


Just 1 boat for every 100 km- Hindustan Times







I don't think there is any deficiency in our capability to produce and deploy numerous amounts of Fast Patrol Boats in our vast Coastal regions, rather there is a complete absence of will and lack of Patriotism which has becoming a key concern in our commitment to give our coastal region a saftey net and make them water tight, so any kind of unethical element won't sneak inside Indian territory.

Unfortunetly, we haven't learned any lessons from our past, this is exactly the reason why an LeT operative who was nabbed sometimes back in South India was looking to hire some Fisherman to strike on Indian territory from Cochin. Since he knew that India has no intentions of taking any prohabitive measures and hence he can feel comfort in drawing one more terror attack to unleash its bruthality on Indian Soil. :2guns::2guns::2guns::2guns::2guns::2guns::2guns::2guns:

 

[youngindian]

Indian coastal security agencies meet at joint operations centre for western zone

July 11th, 2009

A meeting of various agencies involved in coastal security was held at the Joint Operations Centre,[JOC (West)] which has been set up at INS Angre, Mumbai in May 09 in accordance with the CCS Directives. The JOC (West) is jointly manned round the clock by the Navy and Coast Guard and receives inputs from other concerned State and Central Government Agencies. The JOC(W), placed under the charge of the Commander-in-Chief Coastal Defence(West) who is also the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Naval Command, undertakes effective coordination and control of Coastal and Offshore security along the Western sea board which includes Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka and the U/T of Daman and Diu. The JOC will serve as the Command and Control centre of Naval and Coast Guard forces during Joint Operations, besides monitoring the Coastal security scenario on the West Coast and serve as a repository of Database on all issues pertaining to Coastal security.

Hotlines between JOC (W) and various stake holders have been set up viz. Mumbai Police, Maharashtra Police, Fisheries, Customs, Mumbai Port Trust, Headquarters Offshore Defence Advisory Group (ODAG), Harbour Defence Control Centre (Indian Navy), and the Coast Guard Regional Headquarters (West). A hotline will also be established between the NSG hub at Mumbai and JOC (W) shortly. Broad band facility capable of transferring Tactical Data of the Western Seaboard between Coast Guard Ops Centre and JOC (W) has also been established. Nodes for availability of Vessel Traffic Management System (VTMS) with facility to communicate with Ships and Aircraft at Sea and Vessel and Air Traffic Management System (VATMS) have been installed. A rapid Messenger system to facilitate group messaging alerts to concerned personnel of State and Central agencies on any ‘developing’ situation, has also been installed.

Towards strengthening Coastal security along the Western Seaboard, the Navy in conjunction with the Coast Guard and various State agencies has undertaken a number of initiatives. Naval personnel have been visiting Coastal Police stations for interaction at the ground level for collection of data pertaining to Coastal security and conducting Coastal security awareness campaigns in the states of Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka to educate the Coastal population on issues such as changed security scenario post 26/11 Terrorist attacks and the role of Navy and Coast Guard in Maritime and Coastal security, The co-operation of the fishing community is being sought to serve as ‘Eyes and Ears’ on the seas towards enhancing Coastal security. Navy and Coast Guard personnel are being deputed for profiling of all Coastal Villages and the Coastline under the jurisdiction of JOC(W) for collating Data towards enhancement of coastal security. Capsule Courses for personnel of the Marine Wing of Mumbai Police by Navy and Coast Guard and familiarization sorties on Naval /Coast Guard ships has also been undertaken.

Another step towards Joint Coastal Operations has been the conduct of Joint exercises. Based on intelligence inputs of terrorists likely to sneak in through the sea route, a Joint operation code named ‘Raah Bandh’ was undertaken from 28 to 30 Apr 09. This operation involved the participation of the Indian Navy, Coast Guard, the State Marine Police and the Customs. This was followed by Operation ‘Raasta Roko’ held from 08-10 Jun 09, coordinated by the Coast Guard which covered the entire Western Coast line. Besides the Indian Navy and the Coast Guard, State Marine Police, and Fisheries departments of all the Coastal States and Union Territories participated actively. The State Maritime Boards of Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka also activated security measures at the Ports under their jurisdiction. Such exercises will be held more frequently to fine tune the Procedures, Methodology of Operations and most importantly, Coordination amongst all stake holders in Coastal security.

The JOC (W) is fully prepared to meet any threat to Coastal security within its jurisdiction. With the cooperation of various States and central agencies and sharing of intelligence, the JOC (W) with assets under its Command will be in a position to thwart any threat as it develops, in real time.
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A meeting of various agencies involved in coastal security was held at the Joint Operations Centre,[JOC (West)] which has been set up at INS Angre, Mumbai in May 09 in accordance with the CCS Directives. The JOC (West) is jointly manned round the clock by the Navy and Coast Guard and receives inputs from other concerned State and Central Government Agencies. The JOC(W), placed under the charge of the Commander-in-Chief Coastal Defence(West) who is also the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Naval Command, undertakes effective coordination and control of Coastal and Offshore security along the Western sea board which includes Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka and the U/T of Daman and Diu. The JOC will serve as the Command and Control centre of Naval and Coast Guard forces during Joint Operations, besides monitoring the Coastal security scenario on the West Coast and serve as a repository of Database on all issues pertaining to Coastal security.

Hotlines between JOC (W) and various stake holders have been set up viz. Mumbai Police, Maharashtra Police, Fisheries, Customs, Mumbai Port Trust, Headquarters Offshore Defence Advisory Group (ODAG), Harbour Defence Control Centre (Indian Navy), and the Coast Guard Regional Headquarters (West). A hotline will also be established between the NSG hub at Mumbai and JOC (W) shortly. Broad band facility capable of transferring Tactical Data of the Western Seaboard between Coast Guard Ops Centre and JOC (W) has also been established. Nodes for availability of Vessel Traffic Management System (VTMS) with facility to communicate with Ships and Aircraft at Sea and Vessel and Air Traffic Management System (VATMS) have been installed. A rapid Messenger system to facilitate group messaging alerts to concerned personnel of State and Central agencies on any ‘developing’ situation, has also been installed.

Towards strengthening Coastal security along the Western Seaboard, the Navy in conjunction with the Coast Guard and various State agencies has undertaken a number of initiatives. Naval personnel have been visiting Coastal Police stations for interaction at the ground level for collection of data pertaining to Coastal security and conducting Coastal security awareness campaigns in the states of Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka to educate the Coastal population on issues such as changed security scenario post 26/11 Terrorist attacks and the role of Navy and Coast Guard in Maritime and Coastal security, The co-operation of the fishing community is being sought to serve as ‘Eyes and Ears’ on the seas towards enhancing Coastal security. Navy and Coast Guard personnel are being deputed for profiling of all Coastal Villages and the Coastline under the jurisdiction of JOC(W) for collating Data towards enhancement of coastal security. Capsule Courses for personnel of the Marine Wing of Mumbai Police by Navy and Coast Guard and familiarization sorties on Naval /Coast Guard ships has also been undertaken.

Another step towards Joint Coastal Operations has been the conduct of Joint exercises. Based on intelligence inputs of terrorists likely to sneak in through the sea route, a Joint operation code named ‘Raah Bandh’ was undertaken from 28 to 30 Apr 09. This operation involved the participation of the Indian Navy, Coast Guard, the State Marine Police and the Customs. This was followed by Operation ‘Raasta Roko’ held from 08-10 Jun 09, coordinated by the Coast Guard which covered the entire Western Coast line. Besides the Indian Navy and the Coast Guard, State Marine Police, and Fisheries departments of all the Coastal States and Union Territories participated actively. The State Maritime Boards of Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka also activated security measures at the Ports under their jurisdiction. Such exercises will be held more frequently to fine tune the Procedures, Methodology of Operations and most importantly, Coordination amongst all stake holders in Coastal security.

The JOC (W) is fully prepared to meet any threat to Coastal security within its jurisdiction. With the cooperation of various States and central agencies and sharing of intelligence, the JOC (W) with assets under its Command will be in a position to thwart any threat as it develops, in real time.


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[nitesh]

The second SSN was to be delivered to the Indians in 2010,but in view of the delays affecting the completion of the Nerpa, this deadline will not likely be met. Either the transfer will be postponed, or a similar ship in use by the Russian Navy will be offered instead.

Scattered reports suggest that even more nuclear-powered submarines may be leased to India in the future. In late 2008, the Director of the Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Mikhail Dmitriev said it was quite possible that Russia would lease «a few nuclear-powered submarines of the same class and Project as the Nerpa.This fits with reported plans of the Indian Navy to acquire or build 10–12 nuclear-powered submarines by 2018.

As distinct from the single-purpose SSNs of the Russian Navy, the Indian Nerpas will be equipped with the Club-S (SS-N-27) missile system, similar to those on India’s upgraded Project 877EKM (Kilo class) conventional submarines and its Project 11356 (Talvar class) frigates. In addition, the Indian Navy and the Defense Research Development Organization is developing a cruise missile with a range of about 1 thousand km that will give the Nerpa (and the ATV) substrategic capability.[/ {Here comes nirbhay}

Moscow Defense Brief

So here it goes the whole drama of price hikes may be the price hike for vikramaditya is for more submarines? And by this logic why not keep the ATV similar to nerpa so reduce the logistic costs

 

[venom]

Mark-2 of DRDO's Electro-Optical Fire Control System for Navy
DRDO chief M Natarajan visiting the IRDE laboratory and being shown an in-development Mark-2 version of the lab's EON-51 Electro-Optical Fire Control System (EOFCS) for the Indian Navy. According to DRDO literature, the improved MK-II has has a gyro-stabilised electro-optical director with three electro-optical sensors (second generation thermal imager, high repetition rate laser rangefinder, high resolution CCD camera, and operator control console). The EOFCS is capable of passive search, detection, and tracking of targets operating at sea and strategic shore installation, shore navigation during silent radar operation, accurate target tracking and ranging, day and night gun fire control solution for weapon delivery. Photo at left shows image of ship at 9-km.

LiveFist

 

[nitesh]

42 officers pass out from INS Shivaji - Pune - City - NEWS - The Times of India

 

[Energon]

This is an excerpt of a post I composed on another forum about 5 months ago in response to the purchase of balloon radars from Israel. I'm pasting the portion that sort of applies to this discussion.

The two aspects of India's coastal defense setup that are a complete sham are:
1. The concept of inter service operationality and
2. Effectiveness of some paramilitary organizations like the coast guard.
Needless to say both of these weaknesses were exploited to full effect by the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks (in addition to all of their predecessors who haven't as yet launched dramatic attacks).


The coast guard exists only in name for the most part, scrounging off handouts from the IN. Most people do not know this, but as of right now the fishing community is the Coast Guard's biggest source of information; organic radars if you will. Unfortunately the conditions that these people live and work in are so pathetic that it is not easy to rely upon them and there's enough evidence to suggest that some of them are part of the problem.

I don't think its realistic to expect the GoI to rapidly create and expand a new coast guard akin to the USCG. The revenue and industrial setup isn't there to facilitate such an operation. Hence it would be best to bring organization to the unofficial and shambolic current set up until a genuinely capable coastal defense mechanism can be implemented. The government through the private sector needs to provide fisher-folk access to superior vessels with basic GPS navigation and communication equipment so that they can constantly be in touch with the authorities. There then has to be a standardized training for all the fishermen who take to sea. Not only will this enable a higher level of communication between the fisherfolk and the coast guard, but it will also improve search and rescue mechanisms and improve the efficiency of the fisheries department.

IMO a very basic vignette of the coastal defense should include the following components:
I] Para-Military:
a) Coast guard: on sea with a network of patrol boats, supply ships and helicopters, all of which have data links with each other in addition to the Army, Air Force and Navy's assets focused on the Coast.
b) Land based Police Forces, BSF and Customs officials: Who coordinate with the Coast Guard to make sure trespassers are apprehended on the coast land before they can infiltrate inhabited areas.

II] Military:
a) Services: Integrated hardware and humint assets from the Army, Airforce and Navy ensuring a constant stream of information which is then analyzed and acted upon by a coastal defense unit.
b) Clandestine: Intelligence agencies (civilian and military) who pass on all coastal security related information in real time to analysts and executives of the coastal defense unit.

III] Civilian:
Fishermen with decent sea worthy vessels that are equipped with communications and GPS units thereby enabling the coast guard to identify in real time, even the smallest vessels in Indian waters and establish a two way communication channel to share specific information and respond to may-day calls effectively.

 

[Payeng]

Here's an visual presentation of the discussed tropic along with a comparison with US coast guard and Singapore coast guard.
View attachment 773

 

[kuku]

We need a bigger coast guard and they have to be given the absolute responsibility to care of protecting the maritime borders, however it is not right to consider singapore as a comparable example, they are a tiny little nation. US economy is huge, again to compare with them would be wrong (just look at the size of their navy).

 

[Payeng]

We need a bigger coast guard and they have to be given the absolute responsibility to care of protecting the maritime borders, however it is not right to consider singapore as a comparable example, they are a tiny little nation. US economy is huge, again to compare with them would be wrong (just look at the size of their navy).

Definitely more ships are required but entrusting the whole job to the coast guard do not seems feasible, AFAIK coast guards works along with the navy to protect the maritime boarder, without the navy there would be further vacuum in its capabilities, more over raising the strength of the fleet to something like 300 percent doesn't seems feasible either, a better option will be a combine effort by the coast guard, navy and the intellegence agencies supported by patrolling aircrafts and electronic surveillance equipments and a steady increase in the overall capabilities, just increasing the capabilities of the coast guards will not do in the case of India.

 

[kuku]

That would work for a while, however i would expect/wish our navy to become a global navy in 30-50 years to deal with the expected rise in economy and global interests, that requires more concentration on global operations than on domestic ones if we keep on tying down the navy with costal protection type missions it will take longer, and for that we will have to start the work now, making the coast guard more powerful and giving them more responsibilities.

The vision should be a stable region and global reach, instead of the vision other nations have of us stuck in regional affairs forever.

 

[indian_sukhoi]

Exactly,.........We don't have the revenue like USCG to maintain a large fleet or we dont have small coastline like the Singapore thus. India have large sea front to defend, Launching more Ships into the sea, wont be enough.

And has Energon said,...Fishing community is the Coast Guard's biggest source of information. But right now,....These people have nothing like these systems to rely upon.They dont even have a valid photo identity cards.
There was a program implemented by the Indian Govt of installing GPS navigators and VHF radio sets in fishing boats.The Govt had propose a Rs. 153 crore scheme for installing a tracking and warning system in boats, including biometric identification of fishermen.
GPS can also help the fishermen to know the borders of Indo-pakistan and avoid them from entering pak border.


I read an article saying that these equipment cost around 1.5 lakhs rupees. State Government should reduce the price of these equipment and make them realize the importance of these Technologies.




Using a Fishing Trawler to perpetrate a terrorist attack in Mumbai should not have come as a surprise for our Countrys security and intelligence agencies. The Terrorist hijacked the Indian trawler named Kuber at coast of Gujarat. The same Kuber which was intercepted by the Indian Coast Guard, but was let off after its papers were found to be in order.

 

[indian_sukhoi]

Can someone plz come with a better Topic name,....just to add up masala and have better interest in discussions.:2guns:

You guys better read this Article. Has a lot of Info about Mumbai Attacks and holes in our Coastline Defence.

IDSA Strategic Comments - Fishing in Troubled Waters

Investigations into the Mumbai attacks have revealed that the terrorists came in from the sea. It has been reported that in the course of their journey from Karachi they had hijacked an Indian trawler named Kuber with a Porbandar registration in the high seas off the Coast of Gujarat. The trawler, fitted with the latest communication and navigation equipment including a Global Positioning system (GPS), Very High Radio Frequency (VHF) sets, etc., was found abandoned nearly four nautical miles off Cuffe Parade in south Mumbai. It has also been alleged that the master of the trawler had been arrested by the Pakistan Maritime Agency and that he had been in a Pakistani jail for some time. Media reports have also stated that the Kuber was intercepted by the Indian Coast Guard, but was let off after its papers were found to be in order. In a further twist, the Indian Navy Chief told an interviewer that the Coast Guard was in fact aware of such a boat transporting terrorists to Mumbai, though this has been denied by the Coast Guard vehemently. Whatever be the truth, the fact remains that there have been serious lapses in securing India’s coastal areas.

The unabated incidences of fishermen straying into Pakistani waters coupled with the failure of the experiment of installing GPS devices in fishing boats have compelled the government to propose a Rs. 153 crore scheme for installing a tracking and warning system in boats, including biometric identification of fishermen. It is hoped that this would help track straying fishing boats and also allow only fishermen with valid papers board the vessels. When implemented, the scheme is expected to create a virtual fence along the India-Pakistan maritime boundary. To ensure this scheme’s effectiveness, the Gujarat government has made the installation of this system mandatory for all boats. Another step that the government should consider is the imposition of steeper fines on vessels found violating the maritime boundary, and upon repeated violation cancellation of the licenses of these vessels and the arrest of the owners. Effective implementation of the proposed scheme would contribute to addressing the many security concerns emanating from coastal areas and enable the country prevent the recurrence of incidents similar to the Mumbai tragedy.

For more Info click the Source
::IDSA Strategic Comments:: Fishing in Troubled Waters ::

 

[Sridhar]

Indian, French navies free dhow from pirates
TNN 17 July 2009, 03:29am IST

NEW DELHI: The Indian and French navies have managed to ensure the safe release of 14 Indian hostages by scaring off the pirates who had hijacked
their dhow in the Gulf of Aden on July 10.

"The close coordination between the two Navies helped in freeing the 14 crew members of Indian dhow `MV Nafeya', which was hijacked by seven heavily-armed pirates off Boosaaso near Somalia. The hostages were, however, robbed of their cash and valuables,'' said an officer on Thursday.

Registered in Porbandar (Gujarat), the dhow was taken over by the pirates after it had dropped cargo at a Somali harbour and was proceeding towards Dubai. Forcing the dhow to sail towards Bab el Mandeb, the emboldened pirates then attempted to hijack a Liberian tanker ship `MV A Elephant' on July 13.

The attack, however, was foiled by a French warship which was in the vicinity. The French warship then began to track the hijacked dhow and kept Indian warship INS Godavari, on an anti-piracy patrol in the region, informed about the developments.

"The French first attempted to board the dhow for investigation but they had to abandon it as the pirates threatened to kill the hostages. But seeing the Indian and French warships come together, the pirates forced the dhow to go close to the Somali coast and released it at 3 am on Wednesday before fleeing in their skiffs,'' said the officer.

"The mutual understanding and operational interoperability resulted in the safe release of the Indian dhow and its crew without payment of any ransom,'' he added.

Indian, French navies free dhow from pirates - India - NEWS - The Times of India

 

[amitkriit]

Nuclear Submarine

India is going to unveil it's first Nuclear Submarine in a few days, submarine will be inducted into Navy after 2 years once the field trials are completed successfully. Great News!!!