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Indian Naval ships visit South Africa
Indian Naval ships Kolkata, Trikand, and Aditya arrived at Durban on Tuesday, for a three day visit, an official statement said.
The statement issued by Indian Navy called is a demonstration of India's "commitment to its ties with South Africa and to maritime security in the Indian Ocean Region".
The ships are part of the Indian Navy's Western Fleet based at Mumbai under the Western Naval Command and are on a two month long deployment to the Western Indian Ocean.
Guided missile destroyer INS Kolkata is commanded by Captain Rahul Vilas Gokhale, Talwar-class guided missile frigate INS Trikand is commanded by Captain Arjun Dev Nair and replenishment and repair ship INS Aditya is commanded by Captain Vidyanshu Srivastava.
During the visit, the warships will have professional interactions with the South African Naval Forces for enhancing co-operation and sharing the nuances of naval operations including combating maritime threats of terrorism and piracy.
Calls on senior government and military authorities, training and technical cooperation measures with their South African counterparts, sporting and cultural interactions, aimed at strengthening ties and mutual understanding between the two forces, are also planned.
The last visit by an Indian Naval ship to South Africa was in November 2014, when Indian Naval Ship Teg made port call at Simon's Town and Cape Town as part of Exercise IBSAMAR, a trilateral maritime exercise involving navies of Brazil, India and South Africa.
The South African Navy also participated in International Fleet Review hosted by India in February 2016 and was represented by SAN ship Spioenkop.
Though I know the News is more suited for Vietnamese section, defense exports matter for a India too a lot.
Last year, India's defense exports doubled from $150 million $330 million.
India's defense imports too have declined as per the induction of homemade stuff making indigenization ratio 40% from 25%.
GoI wants to export $1 billion worth weapons in a single year in this decade and wants to make India a major arms exporter. At the same time, DM Manohar Parrikar says he wants indigenization ratio to be 70% by 2020.
Sorry for not providing link for above stats due to lack of timetime, though one may ask for them. Regards
Last year, India's defense exports doubled from $150 million $330 million.
India's defense imports too have declined as per the induction of homemade stuff making indigenization ratio 40% from 25%.
GoI wants to export $1 billion worth weapons in a single year in this decade and wants to make India a major arms exporter. At the same time, DM Manohar Parrikar says he wants indigenization ratio to be 70% by 2020.
Sorry for not providing link for above stats due to lack of timetime, though one may ask for them. Regards
Reliance Defence is refitting 3 Navy ships - INS Jamuna, INS Deepak and INS Savitri. (File)
New Delhi: The first of three ships of the Indian Navy undergoing refit at the Reliance Defence and Engineering Ltd (RDEL) yard will be completed shortly and the entire project, worth Rs 300 crore, is likely to be finished by April next year.
Through a competitive bidding process (4 bidders from PSU and private sector participated), RDEL has been awarded the contracts for refitting of three vessels - INS Jamuna, INS Deepak and INS Savitri.
The refit activities, largest contract given to a private company, are expected to be completed by April 2017 with the first refit (INS Jamuna) getting completed shortly, industry sources said.
Navy sources said the contract was awarded to RDEL primarily because of the dry dock it has.
RDEL operates India's largest dry dock of 662 m length and 65 m width. The shipyard has the only modular shipbuilding facility with capacity to build fully fabricated and outfitted blocks prior to their erection in Dry Dock.
The fabrication facility is spread over 2.1 million sq. ft. The shipyard has a pre-erection berth of 980 meters length and 40 meters width, and 2 Goliath cranes with combined lifting capacity of 1,200 tonnes, besides outfitting berth length of 780 meters, the company has earlier said.
Finally!Seems the deal for 36 Rafale cleared, Indian Cabinet, PM etc... ready, French MOD arrived, normaly signature for tomorrow but i can't promise
Sheez...sort of like the Russian/Chinese SU-35 deal.
In this case, when both governments sign the deal and we have pics of that, with both sides indicating it is a done deal with a firm date for delivery...I will believe it.
but...if I hear of any more delays on this one, then like the Chinese SU-35 deal, I wll have to see Rafales on the ground in Indian colors to finally believe it.
Before that, I will give them this one last chance.
Got to know about claimed Fish Hook sea bed SOSUS Network claimed to being work between United States, India and Japan.
India intends to construct a seabed-based surveillance sensor array. This would monitor all submarine or naval ships patrolling the South China Sea and Indian Ocean Region.
New Delhi (Sputnik) –Indian PM Narendra Modi's government has given its approval to a project under which it will start laying an undersea optical fiber cable to strategically important locations in the Indian Ocean region.
“Union Cabinet has given its approval for the provision of a direct communication link through a dedicated submarine Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) between India's mainland (Chennai) and Port Blair and five other islands viz. Little Andaman, Car Nicobar, Havelock, Kamorta and Great Nicobar,” reads a statement released by Indian government.
Geography and the location of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal safeguard India's eastern seaboard. The estimated cost of the project is USD 165 mln, including operational expenses for 5 years. The project is likely to be completed by December 2018.
Government sources told to Sputnik that Japan International Cooperation Agency is expected to fund the project. Following its completion, India would construct its own array of seabed-based surveillance sensors stretching from Indonesia’s Sumatra Island to Indira Point in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The seabed based surveillance sensors would monitor all submarine or naval ships patrolling the South China Sea and Indian Ocean Region.
Currently satellites are the only medium for providing telecommunications connectivity between the mainland and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, but the available bandwidth is limited to 1 Gbps.
kwaigonegin
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It's India ... These type of things happen quite often. Whatever it was it has lil to do with either although that's what the public will hear.