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New IPV for Coast Guard.

Rani Avanti Bai, the second in the series of five inshore patrol vessels being built by the Hindusthan Shipyard Ltd (HSL) here, was commissioned by Jitendra Singh, the Union Minister of State for Defence, at the HSL jetty on Thursday.

The ship was handed over to Indian Coast Guard by the Hindusthan Shipyard Ltd at a ceremony here on Wednesday. Built using light, high tensile steel with aluminium super structure and powered by three water jet propulsion systems for high speeds, the vessels are well suited for coastal and offshore operations.

The ship is 51.5 m long, 8.36 m wide and has a draught of 4.55 m and can achieve 33 knots.

On the occasion, Rear-Admiral N. K. Mishra, CMD of HSL, highlighted the improvements brought about in the ship to enhance its performance. He said the remaining three IPVs would be delivered this financial year.

Jitendra Singh said the Union Ministry of Defence, under whose control HSL functions, would do everything possible to revive the shipyard.
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Coast Guard offshore patrol vessel commissioned.

Indian Coast Guard Ship Vaibhav, the third in a series of 90-meters class offshore patrol vessel, was commissioned at a naval dockyard in Tuticorin by vice admiral Anurag G Thapliyal, director general Indian Coast Guard on Tuesday. Inspector general S P Sharma, commander of coast guard region (east) and senior officials of the state and central government attended.

"The vessel designed and built indigenously by GSL is equipped with state-of-the-art navigation and communication equipment, sensors and machineries. Her features include an integrated bridge system and machinery control system, power management system, a high power external fire fighting system and one indigenous close range naval gun, CRN-91, along with an optical fire control system," said a coast guard spokeperson.

The ship is designed to carry one helicopter and five high speed boats for search and rescue. "Besides law enforcement and maritime patrol, the ship is also capable of carrying pollution response equipment to combat oil spill and similar maritime accidents," said an official note as part of the commissioning of Vaibhav.

The ship draws 1940 tons and is propelled by two diesel engines to attain a maximum speed of 26 knots. At economical speed, it has an endurance of 4500 nautical miles and can remain in the mid seas for 15 days.

The vessel is to be operated in the eastern region, especially in the Gulf of Mannar and up to the international maritime boundary line with Sri Lanka.
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Vipul wrote:Cochin Shipyard launches second fast patrol vessel for Coast Guard.

Cochin Shipyard Ltd has launched the second fast patrol vessel being built for the Indian Coast Guard.

The vessel named Abheek is the second in a series of 20 numbers FPVs contracted by CSL for the ICG. The contract was signed in 2010 with delivery of the last vessel slated for 2017. ................{Snipped} ..................
Cochin Shipyard launches Abhinav, third in the series of twenty Aadesh class 50 meter triple water jet propelled Fast Patrol Vessels (FPV’s) being built for the Indian Coast Guard:

CSL launches third fast patrol vessel

Picture of earlier launch of sister vessel and second in class, Abheek:

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L&T to bid for coast guard contracts worth Rs.4,000 crore.

Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T) will bid for four Indian coast guard contracts worth Rs.4,000 crore, said M.V. Kotwal, president of the company’s heavy engineering department, on Monday.

L&T also plans to bid for two landing platform docks that will be awarded by the Indian government, Kotwal told reporters.

To foster the growth of Indian defence companies, the government has rolled out a new procurement programme seen as favouring domestic firms and is also looking to partially remove restrictions on foreign companies investing in Indian ones.

L&T, India’s largest engineering and construction company, has tried to expand its defence manufacturing business and recently emerged, in consortium, as the lowest bidder for a contract to make army vehicles.
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ICG Helps Rescue 26 Crew from Shipwreck Near Yemen - New Indian Express

In a humanitarian gesture, the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) Mumbai, coordinated operations to help rescue 26 sailors from a massive container vessel which snapped into two and sank off Yemen, a top official said here Monday.

The incident happened early Monday, when the hull of the 316-metre-long cargo container ship - MV Mol Comfort - broke into two and the crew was forced to abandon it, said ICG Mumbai Commander S.P.S. Batra.

The tragedy occurred around 200 nautical miles from Yemen, and around 840 nautical miles west of Mumbai.

The ICG Mumbai immediately got down to rescuing the sailors from the rough seas, where waves rose to six metres and were accompanied by strong winds, Batra said.

Diverting vessels plying in the vicinity with its officials co-ordinating the opeations, the ICG helped to successfully rescue the 14 Filipino and 12 Russian crew from the MV Mol Comfort.

The doomed ship was carrying a cargo of 4,500 containers from Singapore to Jeddah.

The cause of the disaster, details of the ship's ownership and type of cargo on board were not immediately known.

Batra said that for the rescue efforts, the ICG Mumbai diverted three ships, MV Hanjin Beijing, MV Zim India and MV Yantian Express, the last of which was closest to the disaster site.

The MV Yantian Express managed to rescue all the crew which had escaped in two life rafts and one lifeboat. They are being now taken to Colombo, Sri Lanka.


The broken vessel sank shortly afterwards in the same position, with many containers scattered in the Arabian Sea, with an indeterminate quantity of oil spill.
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All Women crew flies Indian Coast Guard maritime reconnaissance Dornier 228 plane in Daman :)

http://frontierindia.net/women-crew-fli ... -228-plane
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^^ Nice but must be a very noisy aircraft to fly on ;)
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I can imagine enemy decrypt's going wild over call signs "aaj daal pakaya." :D
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ICGS Rajveer commissioned.

The central government has approved the setting up of 38 radar stations across the country in the second phase under Coastal Surveillance Network, said defence secretary R K Mathur, adding that the first phase of the network comprising 46 radar stations was expected to be completed by October. Out of the 46 radar stations to be set up in the first phase, six are in AP, including Kalingapatnam, Visakhapatnam, Kakinada, Machilipatnam, Ramaiayapatnam and Krishnapatnam.

Speaking to mediapersons on the sidelines of the commissioning the Inshore Patrol Vessel (IPV) ICGS Rajveer for the Indian Coast Guard (ICG), Mathur said the overall expansion plan of coast guard was to include 150 different type of ships with an appropriate mix of pollution control vehicles, IPVs, Offshore Patrol Vehicles and interceptor crafts depending on the needs of the coast guard. At present the ICG has 87 ships and 16 aircrafts under its control. Mentioning that the sophisticated IPV built by Garden Research Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) amply demonstrates the indigenous ship building capability of the country, he said, "The focus is now on shortening delivery periods." Furthermore, he said that many more vessels were at various stages of construction in both public and private ship building yards. "ICG is on its way to be one of the most strongest and potent coast guards of the world. ICG is on the right path of growth," he added.

Pointing out that coastal security remains one of the prime concerns, he said, "Induction of new assets would definitely boost the ICG's efforts to provide a safe coastline. Establishment of coastal security network will ensure maximum protection." He also said that the Indian Navy and Coast Guard were working in a synergised manner with stage governments to achieve the overall objective of maritime security.

On the commissioning of the seventh in series of eight ships at the Coast Guard jetty here on Saturday, GRSE chairman-cum-managing director Rear Admiral (retd) A K Verma said, "We hope to deliver the eighth IPV by end of this month. The first ship under this class was delivered in January 2012. With the delivery of this ship, we have delivered at the rate of one ship every two-and-half months."

Stating that ship a 75% indigenisation level as most of the machinery was sourced from Indian vendors, he added that the ship is a cost effective and fuel efficient platform.

The 50 metre IPV commissioned on Saturday is equipped with the most advanced and sophisticated navigational communication sensors and equipment, said vice-admiral Anurag G Thapliyal, director general, Indian Coast Guard.The ship is propelled to a maximum speed of 35 knots by three MTU 4000 Series Diesel engines of 2720KW capacity at 2100 rpm each, coupled with three 71S2 Rolls Royce Kamewa Jets. At an economical speed of 14 knots, it has an endurance of 1500 nautical miles.The special features of the ship include an Integrated Bridge System, Integrated Machinery Control System and an indigenously built 30-mm gun mount with fire control system. The ship is designed to carry one rigid inflatable boat and two Geminis for search and rescue, law enforcement and maritime patrol.
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The Hindu has a nice picture of the vessel.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Vis ... 009217.ece

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The patrol vessel manned by five officers and 30 men under the command of Commandant Rajiv Ranjan will be based at Visakhapatnam and under the administrative and operational control of the Commander, District Headquarters No. 06 (COMDIS 6), Visakhapatnam.
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Don't know with what happened to the 6 MMMA aircraft that ICG was planning to buy.

But now CAG is going to design and develop a desi MMMA. [click] and [click]. Some points:

1. The MMMA shall have a Maritime Patrol Radar (MPR) capable of performing the following functionalities:

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        - Capable of Detection, Localization, Classification, Tracking and Recording of Aerial and Surface targets.
        - Capable of having auto tracking features (TWS) for detected targets.
        - Enhanced Target Tracking, update and warning feature for alterations in speed and course 
          (marine targets) based on operator selected threshold.
In addition the MPR should have the following Features:
        - Synthetic Aperture Radar (Spot and Strip) (SAR)
        - Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR)
        - Range Signature (RS)
        - Moving Target Indication (MTI)
        - Sea
        - Air
        - Ground
        - Secondary back up weather avoidance (and navigation mode with real beam mapping
        - The MPR must have Long Range Surveillance and small target detection mode (for search and rescue mission, life rafts)
        - The MPR shall offer a beacon SART (X-band Transponder) mode
        - The MPR shall be capable of interfacing for operation with IFF Mk XII ’S’.
        - The MPR shall have ECCM Resistant features
2. The MMMA shall have a Electro-Optic/Infrared (EO/IR) System capable of performing the following functionalities:

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        - 360 degrees Coverage for day and night surveillance, observation.
        - Detection, reconnaissance, identification and localization
        - Auto tracking capability
        - Thermal imager payload
        - Laser Payload
        - High Definition Camera
3. I don't know if the platform has been chosen yet, but the dates to response to these EOIs are fairly aggressive.

4.The initial requirement is for 10 such units. Another 05 units are envisaged as phase II. The future requirement is for around 10-15 such units.
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^^^ In what way is this MMMA different from the previous tender for MMPRX? just looks like old wine in a new bottle. in this two years of delay, the cost would have gone up and we have become more vulnerable. The numbers also seem to have gone up.
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L&T built interceptor boat C-406 to be launched (or commissioned?) at Hazira on 15 Sep 2013.

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes ... ots-hazira

The article is confusing as it confuses launching with commissioning and/ or induction.
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Cochin Shipyard delivers fast patrol vessel for Coast Guard.

Cochin Shipyard Ltd has delivered the first of the series of 20 fast patrol vessels built for the Indian Coast Guard. The vessel was delivered to the Coast Guard after successful completion of all trials.

The commanding Officer of the ship, Commandant S. R. Nagendran, took over the vessel in the presence of DIG Vivek Vajpayee, Principal Director, Materials, Coast Guard. The vessel — Aadesh — will be operated by the Coast Guard station at Tuticorin.

The primary role of the vessel will be fisheries protection and monitoring, patrolling within exclusive economic zone, coastal patrolling, anti-smuggling, search and rescue operations, and anti-piracy operations. The vessels have a secondary role of providing communication link during and war time.
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Cochin Shipyard launches fast patrol vessel.

The Cochin Shipyard has launched the fourth Fast Patrol Vessel (FPV) for the Indian Coast Guard (ICG). The vessel ‘Abhiraj’ was launched by Dr Ranjini Raghavan in the presence of DIG Satish Chandran, Commandant, Coast Guard District Headquarters 4, and DIG TP Sadanandan, CGRPS (K) of Indian Coast Guard. Capt R S Sundar, Director (Operations) CSL, Dr K N Raghavan, Commissioner of Customs, senior officials of the Coast Guard, Indian Navy, and Cochin Shipyard were present.

It is the fourth in a series of 20 FPVs being built by the Cochin Shipyard for the Coast Guard. The vessels are being built under the dual classification requirements of ABS and IRS.The primary roles of the vessel include fisheries protection and monitoring, patrol within exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and coastal patrol, anti-smuggling, search, rescue operations and anti-piracy operations.
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X Posted with a hat tip to Pushkar Bhat from the Indian Naval Discussion thread.

Our Coast Guard detains US owned vessel sailing under a Sierra Leone flag of convenience holding 25 armed crewmen in “possession of sophisticated arms and ammunition, which included semi-automatic weapons and self-loading rifles” :

Ship with armed guards detained in Indian waters
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Pipavav set to win Rs 920-cr Coast Guard order for fast petrol vessels.

Pipavav Defence and Offshore Engineering Company Ltd is set to win a Rs920-crore order for building 14 fast petrol vessels (FPVs) for the Indian Coast Guard, with the private sector shipbuilder emerging as the lowest bidder.

The company said in a filing with the stock exchanges that the Indian Coast Guard has declared it as the lowest bidder for design and construction of 14 FPVs under the competitive bidding process.

FPVs are used for patrol within exclusive economic zone, coastal patrol, anti-smuggling, anti-piracy and search and rescue operations.

Pipavav had earlier secured a much larger contract, worth about Rs2,975 crore, from the defence ministry for building five ships for the Indian Navy. And, with the government focusing on enhanced local defence production with private participation, Pipavav expects more orders to follow.

The Navy and the Indian coast guard together are expected to spend over Rs50,000 crore on vessels and equipment over the next 10-15 years.

With the global economic downturn casting a shadow on building merchant vessels, the competition for a pie of the defence contracts is expected to hot up.

Pipavav Defence has, meanwhile, formed a joint venture with state-run Mazagon Docks Ltd to build warships for the Indian Navy.

The government cleared the proposal in July this year after deferring a decision on it in September last year, following objections by other shipbuilders and for lack of transparency.

Pipavav had, earlier, said it was looking forward to joint marketing initiatives to tap the growing global demand for warships and submarines through its joint venture with Mazagon Dock.

The company said it had ''submitted bids worth $2 billion in various countries with respective local partners.''
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Indian Coast Guard ships arrive in Trincomalee for marine exercise
Two Indian Coast Guard ships have arrived in the eastern Sri Lankan port of Trincomalee to participate in a three-nation marine exercise.

ICGS Vishwast and ICGS Rajkamal were welcomed in accordance with naval traditions on arrival.

The ships are in Sri Lanka to participate in a trilateral table top exercise involving India, Maldives and Sri Lanka.
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ICGS Abheek commissioned

The Indian Coast Guard Ship Abheek, the second in the series of twenty fast patrol vessels (fpvs), designed and built by Cochin Shipyard Limited, was commissioned on 31 Dec 13 at Kochi by AK Antony.
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Meanwhile, back at the ranch.........


Mumbai: Gun on Coast Guard ship goes off, building damaged
December 30, 2013

In a freak mishap, a 30 mm gun on board a Coast Guard ship went off accidentally when it was being repaired, damaging a portion of the Western Naval Command headquarters building in Mumbai.

A Board of Inquiry is looking into the incident that occurred early this month, the sources said, adding no loss of life has been reported.

The practice round hit the 3rd floor of the high security building when the gun went off accidentally while undergoing repair on board the warship ICGS Samrat in presence of the Mumbai-based Naval Armament Depot personnel, they said.

ICGS Samrat carries two indigenous 30mm CRN 91 Gun along with fire control system.

This is the fifth reported incident where naval assets have suffered damage including the INS Sindhurakshak accident where the vessel sank inside the Mumbai harbour after an explosion in its torpedo section.

The BoI is headed by a Commodore-rank officer from the Coast Guard and also includes two naval officers, the sources said. In a recent incident earlier this month, the INS Talwar collided with an unlit fishing trawler near Ratnagiri coast in Maharashtra in which four fishermen suffered injuries prompting the navy to order an inquiry.

There was a fire incident on board the only aircraft carrier INS Viraat off the coast of Mumbai earlier this year. INS Konkan, a newly commissioned minesweeper vessel of the navy, also suffered damage due to a fire incident in the first week of the month in Vishakhapatnam.
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isnt this a bit comical...why attempt to repair a gun with loaded ammo in dock?
some people could easily have been killed.
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Pipavav Defence is lowest bidder for Indian Coast Guard order
Mumbai: Ship maker Pipavav Defence and Offshore Engineering Co. Ltd on Monday said the company had been declared the lowest bidder by the Indian Coast Guard for construction of one training ship worth Rs.221 crore. Last year, the company had emerged as the lowest bidder for the design and construction of 14 fast patrol vessels worth Rs.920 crore.
The training ship is intended to provide basic sea training to all Coast Guard (ministry of defence) personnel and is a one of its kind having integral helicopter, capable of operations in all maritime zones of India. Pipavav Defence said in a filing to BSE that the latest order to build a training ship is under the “buy Indian category” of ministry of defence and was awarded on a competitive basis.
Securing contracts to build warships has emerged as an option for local shipyards seeking to navigate through the global downturn in the industry. The navy and the Indian coast guard have lined up projects worth at least Rs.50,000 crore in the next 10-15 years to patrol the country’s coastline that stretches over 7,400km, according to the defence ministry. The government is also focusing on enhancing local defence production with private participation.
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Coast Guard Inventory Pegged at 300 Ships, Aircraft
Making steady additions to its inventory, the Indian Coast Guard will boast of an impressive fleet of 200 ships and 100 aircraft by 2020, an officer said here Saturday.

"We have been and will continue inducting new ships, vessels and aircraft into our inventory," Coast Guard Regional Commander (Northeast) and Inspector General K. C. Pande told reporters during the concluding session of a coastal security awareness campaign.

"The vision is to have a fleet of 200 ships and 100 aircraft by 2020 and we are steadily progressing in the right direction," he said, adding that orders had been placed for more than 100 ships and aircraft.

This will add to its fleet of over 100 ships and boats, 14 air cushion vehicles (ACVs) and over 60 aircraft including the Dornier Do 228 maritime surveillance aircraft, he added.
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^^^Wow, 300 ships and 100 planes is really impressive... With coast guard, SSB and state Marine police taking over all sea policing duties closer to the "Coast", IN can better focus on more critical tasks... This will also save on wear and tear of our principal combatants and also provide us the cushion to take our ships off for routine maintenance and MLUs.

Overall A great development, KEEP IT UP ICG!!! :)
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Abhiraj, (BY 504), the the fourth in a series of 20 FPV's under construction at CSL was delivered to the ICG on Tuesday, 04 March 2014. Abhiraj was launched on 30 Sep 2013. Abhiraj is also the 100th ship built at CSL. The FPV is to be based in Tuticorin.
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Cochin Shipyard Ltd deliveres sixth of the series of 20 fast patrol vessels to Coast Guard.

Cochin Shipyard Ltd (CSL) on Friday delivered the sixth in the series of 20 Fast Patrol Vessels (FPVs) being built for the Indian Coast Guard.

The protocol of delivery and acceptance was signed by Vinayakumar P, director (technical), on behalf of CSL and commanding officer (designate) of the vessel Cmdt (JG) Umed Singh of the Indian Coast Guard. Cmdt K Subramaniam, C&MD, CSL, DIG Vivek Vajpayee, principal director (Materials), Indian Coast Guard and DIG T P Sadanandan, CGRPS (Kochi), Capt RS Sundar, director (operations), CSL, Paul Ranjan, director (finance), CSL, were present on the occasion.

The vessel is named ‘CGS AGRIM’ and will be operated by the Coast Guard station in Mumbai. Cochin Shipyard had signed the contract for the construction of the 20 FPVs for the Coast Guard.

Like its sister ships, ‘AGRIM’ is a FPV capable of speed upto 33 knots and will be very effective in supporting the Coast Guard in its anti-smuggling, anti-piracy operations, fisheries protection and monitoring.

Since speed of the vessel is crucial in coastal security operations, the superstructure of these ships is made of aluminium.

A considerable amount of innovation in welding and fabrication techniques were undertaken by CSL to achieve a very high-quality product.

The ship is propelled by water jets powered by three main engines, each of 2720 KW capacity and built to the dual classification requirements of ABS and IRS.

Apart from the 20 FPVs for the Coast Guard, the CSL is also constructing the most prestigious warship of the country, the Indigenous Aircraft Carrier, one Offshore Support Vessel for Norwegian owner and one Buoy Tender Vessel for Directorate of Light Houses and Light Ship
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ICGS Achook and ICGS Agrim, the fifth and sixth vessels of a series of twenty fast patrol vessels built by Cochin Shipyard Ltd. have been commissioned into the Coast Guard:

Two Indian Coastguard Ships Commissioned by Arun Jaitley
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Goa Shipyard to launch 3 Coast Guard patrol vessels this year.

Goa Shipyard Ltd (GSL), a south Goa-based defence shipyard, is in the process of construction of six Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs) for the Indian Coast Guard and it plans to launch three OPVs in succession from September – December this year.

Mr. Shekhar Mital, Chairman and Managing Director, GSL indicated this on Wednesday at the handing-over ceremony of the fourth of the 105 m class of Naval Offshore Patrol Vessel (NOPV), ‘INS SUMITRA,’ indigenously designed and built by GSL, to the Indian Navy.

With this, GSL has delivered three OPVs in last ten months, 15 OPVs till date and nine more are under construction, said an official spokesperson of GSL on Thursday.

Mr. Mital said that the first OPV will be ready for delivery as per schedule by October 2015 and all six vessels will be delivered to Indian Coast Guard by November 2017.

GSL is implementing a massive modernisation programme at an outlay of over Rs.700 crores for the production of cutting edge technology warships to meet the requirements of the nation’s Naval defence, he said.

The vessel was handed over by Mr. Shekhar Mital, Chairman and Managing Director, GSL to Cdr Milind Mokashi, Commanding Officer Designate, “INS SUMITRA” in presence of Cmde Saurabh Dev, CEO, HQENC in south Goa.

INS SUMITRA, the Indian Navy’s largest OPV, is fitted with large number of state-of-the-art indigenous electronic, communication and weapon systems. It is considered suitable for monitoring sea lanes of communication, defence of offshore oil installations and other critical offshore national assets. Besides, the vessel can be deployed for escorting high value ships and fleet support operations, said an official spokesperson of GSL on Thursday.

In order to reinforce the country’s maritime defence, four NOPVs were contracted to GSL. The first, second and third of the series of 105 metre class of NOPV — INS SARYU, SUNAYNA and SUMEDHA — were earlier handed over to the Indian Navy by GSL on December 21, 2012, September 2, 2013 and January 14, 2014, respectively.
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International Maritime Organistaion commends Indian Coast Guard officer For bravery

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A subordinate officer of the Indian coast guard, Uttam Adhikari Mahavir Singh has been commended by the International Maritime Organistaion for display of exceptional bravery at sea while assisting in the fire fighting operations onboard merchant vessel MOL Comfort, thus avoiding a pollution incident.
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Indian Coast Guard helicopter rescues stranded fire brigade personnel

Indian Navy too had pressed a Seaking C helicopter into service which was launched at around 2:30 PM. The helicopter was not used as the fire was controlled by the fire fighters. :wink: (Coast Guard press release)

Japanese Coast Guard training Ship Kojima visits Kochi

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