Indian Navy Developments & Discussions

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AP is saying that this ship has been hijacked since dec 14th.

India's navy takes control of bulk carrier hijacked by Somali pirates and evacuates crew

The Indian navy says it has taken control of a bulk carrier that was hijacked by Somali pirates and evacuated the 17 crew members on the vessel.

apnews.com

 

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INS KOLKATA " THE TIGRESS OF THE INDIAN OCEAN"

 

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Somalis coping

 

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Somalis coping

Calling them sailors in a dinghy is a crime.

 

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MARCOS paradropping from C-17 with a RHIB. Photo taken from INS Kolkata.

 

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MARCOS paradropping from C-17 with a RHIB. Photo taken from INS Kolkata.
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Ab Superpower Wali feelings aa rahi hai. I want Navy to get all its infrastructure and asset as soon as possible and dominate all ocean.

India ruler of ocean. Whole Indian ocean is India's dominion.

 

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MARCOS paradropping from C-17 with a RHIB. Photo taken from INS Kolkata.
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maybe stupid question but cant they just rope down from helicopter , heli cant fit people ? , seems like doing this in daytime is worse possible way.

 

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maybe stupid question but cant they just rope down from helicopter , heli cant fit people ? , seems like doing this in daytime is worse possible way.

The units onboard Kolkata boarded themselves. But after assessing the number of hostiles, another unit was flown in for fast insertion via RHIB. I mean what will the pirates do ? Come outside on the open deck to shoot ? There's a Destroyer parked right there with it's 76mm SRGM and crew served MGs pointing at the deck. Was this additional unit necessary ? debatable. But it sure proved to be a great exercise and demonstration of capability.

 

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Inside quotes are great, appreciation from all around the world.

 

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maybe stupid question but cant they just rope down from helicopter , heli cant fit people ? , seems like doing this in daytime is worse possible way.

If I understand the chronology it happened something like this -

• Pirates decided to use the hijacked MV Ruen as mothership for more highjackings, so they sailed to open seas.
• IN (UAVs/P8Is) was already tracking it, so INS Kolkata reached to it to observe. Sent an UAV for surveillance.
• Kanglu Somali pirates shot down the UAV. So Navy finally got an alibi to use force.
• INS Kolkata disabled the propulsion & navigation of MV Ruen (will be interesting how), making it a sitting duck in the open ocean.
• INS Kolkata negotiated with the pirates to surrender, but they did not at first try, apparently. Kanglu pirates probably thought they have good numbers for self-defence (~35 armed pirates).
• INS Kolkata calls reinforcements, 2 more MARCOS team airdropped as a show of force, ship gets surrounded, storming imminent.
• Kanglu pirates realise they can't take on such a huge number of SF, surrenders.

To your original question, no, they already fired on our quadcopter so they will probably fire on helicopter too. IN called more reinforcents to take on the pirates in case they needed to go the hard way of storming the entire ship.

 

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If I understand the chronology it happened something like this -

• Pirates decided to use the hijacked MV Ruen as mothership for more highjackings, so they sailed to open seas.
• IN (UAVs/P8Is) was already tracking it, so INS Kolkata reached to it to observe. Sent an UAV for surveillance.
• Kanglu Somali pirates shot down the UAV. So Navy finally got an alibi to use force.
• INS Kolkata disabled the propulsion & navigation of MV Ruen (will be interesting how), making it a sitting duck in the open ocean.
• INS Kolkata negotiated with the pirates to surrender, but they did not at first try, apparently. Kanglu pirates probably thought they have good numbers for self-defence (~35 armed pirates).
• INS Kolkata calls reinforcements, 2 more MARCOS team airdropped as a show of force, ship gets surrounded, storming imminent.
• Kanglu pirates realise they can't take on such a huge number of SF, surrenders.

To your original question, no, they already fired on our quadcopter so they will probably fire on helicopter too. IN called more reinforcents to take on the pirates in case they needed to go the hard way of storming the entire ship.

So many footage and report-material, Defense Forum all around the world would be getting dopamine hits now.

 

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INS Kolkata did use the 76mm SRGM to disable the Ruen

 

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Chadshankar strikes again !