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https://twitter.com/delhidefence/status ... JZAuXLILPw ---> Navy’s proposal to procure upgraded 1,250 kW capacity Marine Gas Turbine Generator for power generation application onboard Kolkata Class of ships was also approved. Also approved - 14 Fast Patrol Vessels (FPVs) for Indian Coast Guard under Buy (Indian-IDDM) with 60% indigenous content.
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Indian Coast Guard Dornier aircraft forced Pakistan Navy warship Alamgir to return to its waters. Happened in 1st half of July as per report below:

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Indian Coast Guard inducts 15th ‘Advanced Light Helicopter’ to ramp up maritime surveillance

To address India’s multi-faceted marine interests and to boost maritime surveillance, the Indian Coast Guard Region has inducted the 15th Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) Mark-III in its Air Enclave in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

Aimed at strengthening coastal security and surveillance, the state-of-art helicopter has been indigenously designed, and developed by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) keeping in line with the government’s initiative towards ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’.

“15th Advance Light Helicopter ALH MK-III has been inducted in Indian Coast Guard Air Enclave, Bhubaneswar today. The state of art aircraft has been indigenously designed, developed and made by HAL keeping with the vision of AatmaNirbharBharat,” the Indian Coast Guard mentioned in a Tweet.

Notably, the advanced ALH MK-III chopper has multifold capabilities like Beyond Visual Range detection, state-of-the-art radar integrated with long-range imaging and identification using the Electro Optical Pad and Automatic Identification System.

In June 2022, the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) Director General VS Pathania commissioned the made-in-India Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) Dhruv Mark III Squadron (CG)-835 at Porbandar, Gujarat, for maritime surveillance capabilities of the force along the border with Pakistan.

Deciphering HAL’s ALH MK III

The made-in-India HAL Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) MK III chopper is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment including advanced Radar, Electro optical sensors, Shakti engines, full glass cockpit, high-intensity searchlight, advanced communication systems, automatic identification system along with SAR homer.

The amalgamation of these advanced features enable the helicopter to undertake maritime reconnaissance as well as carry out Search and Rescue (SAR) coordination at extended ranges even while operating from ships during both day and night.

Notably, the aircraft has the ability to switch roles from an offensive platform with heavy machine gun to that of a benign one carrying a Medical Intensive Care Unit to facilitate transfer of critically ill patients.

The induction of these coppers in ICG has marked a tremendous leap towards self-reliance in the field of Search and Rescue (SAR) and maritime surveillance. So far, 15 ALH MK-III aircrafts have been inducted in the Indian Coast Guard in a phased manner and four of these aircraft are positioned at Porbandar. Since the induction, the squadron has flown over 1,200 hours and conducted numerous operational missions, including the maiden night SAR mission off Diu coast.

ALH Dhruv Mark III is “type –Certified” for Military operations by the Centre for Military Airworthiness Certification (CEMILAC) and civil operations by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). Certification of the utility military variant was completed in 2002 and that of the civil variant was completed in 2004. The deliveries of production series helicopters commenced from 2001-02 onwards. A total of 228 Helicopters have been produced by March 2017 including 216 for the Indian Armed Forces.
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https://twitter.com/livefist/status/159 ... dUPXjl4phQ ---> JUST IN: HAL hands over 16th Dhruv Mk III to @IndiaCoastGuard (completes order), receives letter of intent for 9 more.

https://twitter.com/HALHQBLR/status/159 ... dUPXjl4phQ ---> HAL hands over 16th ALH Mk III, gets letter of intent for nine more from the Indian Coast Guard. All the 16 helicopters delivered at the shortest time with seamless production activities despite COVID-19.

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Coast Guards has issued an LOI for an additional order for 9 ALH-MK-III helicopters
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Cyrano wrote:Indian Coast Guard Dornier aircraft forced Pakistan Navy warship Alamgir to return to its waters. Happened in 1st half of July as per report below:

Read more At:
https://aninews.in/news/world/asia/indi ... 807190643/
We should keep a coastal anti ship batteries, sink the warship in Indian waters and do an Abhinandan with the entire crew.

This is how Pakis win their battles, the warship entering Indian waters is an escalation
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Aditya_V wrote:
Cyrano wrote:Indian Coast Guard Dornier aircraft forced Pakistan Navy warship Alamgir to return to its waters. Happened in 1st half of July as per report below:

Read more At:
https://aninews.in/news/world/asia/indi ... 807190643/
We should keep a coastal anti ship batteries, sink the warship in Indian waters and do an Abhinandan with the entire crew.

This is how Pakis win their battles, the warship entering Indian waters is an escalation
Do you know why it entered?

Do you know what the protocols are in the event something like this happens?

Why are we so blase when the risks are being borne by the men and women in uniform?

Please listen to Adm Vadgoankar on the Blueskies podcast. You will get an idea of the due process. He talks of subs but the same would apply to surface ships.
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You can't go Rambo at the first provocation. Attacking (and possibly disabling/sinking) a naval vessel of another country is an act of war.

In the past (during Admiral Nirmal Verma's tenure) a Pakistan Navy surface combatant came right next to an Indian Navy frigate and glanced her hull. A formal complaint was lodged and that is where it ended. There are certain etiquette and norms that is followed by world navies and while Pakistan does not understand that fact, the very next step is not to attack the vessel.

The greatest asymmetry between India and Pakistan lies between her navies and in an all out war, the Indian Navy will decimate the Pakistan Navy. But war will not be relegated only to the seas. It will spill out on land and up in the air as well. An act of war is not to be taken lightly.
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The nose houses a radar?
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Cybaru wrote:The nose houses a radar?
Yup!! A surface search radar, if memory serves me right.
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Adityaji
I just wonder whether this is assessing the reaction time a la Atlantique type.
We are setting up coastal radar network system isnt it (CSN)
I think it maybe pakis trying to gather info for themselves and their masters about the capability and response
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Rsatchi wrote:Adityaji
I just wonder whether this is assessing the reaction time a la Atlantique type.
We are setting up coastal radar network system isnt it (CSN)
I think it maybe pakis trying to gather info for themselves and their masters about the capability and response
It's easier to fly an elint platform in order to assess the capacity of the radar's. The radar has to operate 24/7/365. The elint system can simply identify the EM spectrum and an analysis of the capacity of the system can enable the enemy to find out any weakness.

The ship intrusion is a provocative action without any real consequences. Because during peace time Pakistan knows that India will not sink the ship.

In that situation the ship returning home safely is a moral victory for Pakistan. For which they didn't have to pay any price.

This victory is ultimately inconsequential.
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I think my kneejerk post is was incorrect, but think it through if we can have a mine with can be only remotely detonated around on command- cannot we set off without an Indian remotely controlled command in the likely ingress points, and then claiming a Pakistani ship had a mysterious detonation in Indian waters and we played the good guys rescuing their crew in our waters will be a propaganda coupe. Given PNS Ghazi, remember the Mumbai-2 New year attack attempt (which our Secular Media tried to project as ordinary fishermen) and other episodes, Pakis will play along with accidental explosion theory, incursions will stop but Paki H&D will be saved.

I am sure many in this forum and general Indian public will have forgotten this and Secular cover up that followed, like Pakistan would have kept quiet if India blew up their ordinary Fishermen without parading their families before camera.

Pakistani boat laden with explosives blows up off Indian coast, India says
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Rakesh wrote: https://twitter.com/livefist/status/159 ... dUPXjl4phQ ---> JUST IN: HAL hands over 16th Dhruv Mk III to @IndiaCoastGuard (completes order), receives letter of intent for 9 more.

https://twitter.com/HALHQBLR/status/159 ... dUPXjl4phQ ---> HAL hands over 16th ALH Mk III, gets letter of intent for nine more from the Indian Coast Guard. All the 16 helicopters delivered at the shortest time with seamless production activities despite COVID-19.
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ICG has the most sensible acquisition program compared to the 3 services. Aim for good, not the great, and emphasize on overall force level through make in india.
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Indian Coast Guard looks for new helicopters, rotary Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/ ... 187739.ece
27 Nov 2022
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Aditya G wrote:
Rakesh wrote: https://twitter.com/livefist/status/159 ... dUPXjl4phQ ---> JUST IN: HAL hands over 16th Dhruv Mk III to @IndiaCoastGuard (completes order), receives letter of intent for 9 more.

https://twitter.com/HALHQBLR/status/159 ... dUPXjl4phQ ---> HAL hands over 16th ALH Mk III, gets letter of intent for nine more from the Indian Coast Guard. All the 16 helicopters delivered at the shortest time with seamless production activities despite COVID-19.
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ICG has the most sensible acquisition program compared to the 3 services. Aim for good, not the great, and emphasize on overall force level through make in india.
+1. They work silently and effectively to acquire Indian-made assets. Over the last decade, their force posture has improved significantly. None of the tamasha-giri & waiting for unobtanium, like we see elsewhere
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Aditya_V wrote:
Cyrano wrote:Indian Coast Guard Dornier aircraft forced Pakistan Navy warship Alamgir to return to its waters. Happened in 1st half of July as per report below:

Read more At:
https://aninews.in/news/world/asia/indi ... 807190643/
We should keep a coastal anti ship batteries, sink the warship in Indian waters and do an Abhinandan with the entire crew.

This is how Pakis win their battles, the warship entering Indian waters is an escalation
A naPaki ship entering Indian waters, 12 miles, is too much. Under war-like conditions our limit should be economic zone i.e. any unidentified vessel in this region is deemed to be hostile and we shoot first as questions (or apologize) later.

Long ago we had SS-N-2 Styx batteries and mobile launchers. We can have mobile Brahmos batteries, if we do not have them by now.
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https://twitter.com/livefist/status/160 ... sKIPujj62A ---> Hard to believe this hasn’t already happened. Shocking, even. The Indian Coast Guard announces procurement of 10 multi-copter drones for surveillance & search and rescue ops and releases the following images:

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https://twitter.com/RETHIK5706/status/1 ... 04864?s=20 ---> ALH Mk3 of ICG are back, test sortie recently carried from the squadron present in Chennai!

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Defence ministry signs contract with HAL for Dornier Aircraft worth Rs 458 cr - ET
The defence ministry on Friday signed a contract with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for procurement of two Dornier Aircraft for Indian Coast Guard (ICG) at an overall cost of Rs 458 crore.

"The addition will further bolster the aerial surveillance capability of maritime areas of responsibilities of the ICG," Ministry of Defence said in a release.

HAL will indigenously manufacture the Dornier Aircraft at their Kanpur facility.

"It will significantly contribute in achieving Aatmanirbharta in defence, in consonance with the ‘Make in India’ initiative of the Government," it further stated.

The aircraft will be fitted with a number of advanced equipment including glass cockpit, maritime patrol radar, electro optic infra-red device, mission management system among other things.

Earlier this year in March, the defence ministry had sealed a deal with HAL to procure six Dornier aircraft at a cost of Rs 667 crore for the Indian Air Force.
The price difference shows the extra equipment on board the ICG Do.
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Any idea how much royalty we pay to Dornier for each aircraft?
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I don't know.

But i recall from a few years ago. The fusalage, wings and tail of 228 were to be built by HAL and shipped to Germany . The completed aircraft to be marketed by Ruag globally.

If that is the still arrangement. Then I don't believe, any royalty should be payable.

But i could be completely wrong.
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Defence Ministry signs contract for construction of the first Indian Coast Guard Training Ship with Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd, Mumbai
https://pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetailm.aspx?PRID=1968467
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https://x.com/ReviewVayu/status/1714248 ... 26779?s=20 ---> MoD signs a contract for construction of one Training Ship for Indian Coast Guard with Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd, Mumbai at a cost of Rs 2,310 crore under Buy (Indian-IDDM) category. This training ship will have a helicopter & modern high tech surveillance/monitoring systems.

https://x.com/Defencematrix1/status/171 ... 48108?s=20 ---> Defence Ministry signs contract for construction of the first Indian Coast Guard Training Ship with Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd.

* The Ministry of Defence signed a contract for the construction of one Training Ship for the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) with Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd (MDL), Mumbai for Rs 310 crore under the Buy (Indian- IDDM) category in New Delhi on October 17.

* This is the first dedicated training platform with integral helicopter capabilities that will provide basic sea training to 70 Coast Guard and other international under-trainee officers to prepare these budding mariners on the multi-dimensional maritime aspects of Coast Guard life.

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First tranche of C-295s for the Navy and the Coast Guard. Was expected.

Indian Coast Guard, Navy to buy 15 C-295 transport aircraft for maritime surveillance
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https://x.com/alpha_defense/status/1737 ... 07474?s=20 ---> Ministry of Defence signs Rs 1,614.89 crore contract with Mazagon Dockyard Shipbuilders Ltd for procurement of six Next Generation Offshore Patrol Vessels for Indian Coast Guard.

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TOI has reported that defence ministry has placed an order for 14 fast patrol crafts for coast guard with MDL for 1070 crores.
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Rupesh wrote: 24 Jan 2024 22:10 TOI has reported that defence ministry has placed an order for 14 fast patrol crafts for coast guard with MDL for 1070 crores.
https://x.com/livefist/status/1750118464692617726?s=20 ---> JUST IN:

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https://x.com/alpha_defense/status/1750 ... 95984?s=20 ---> Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited has signed a contract with the acquisition wing of the Ministry of Defence for construction and delivery of fourteen Fast Patrol Vessels (FPVs) for the Indian Coast Guard at a cost of approximately Rs 1070 crores on 24 Jan 2024.

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https://x.com/BharatShaktiBSI/status/17 ... 87170?s=20 --->

* MoD has signed a contract with @MazagonDockLtd for acquisition of 14 Fast Patrol Vessels for @IndiaCoastGuard

* Contract value: Rs 1070.47 cr

* To be indigenously designed, developed & manufactured by MDL under Buy (Indian-IDDM) category

* Will be delivered in 63 months

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What are the specs and what is the name of the class?
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https://x.com/NewsIADN/status/1753359933800849586?s=20 ---> Indian Coast Guard to install four new Coastal Radar Stations in West Bengal and Odisha by August. Altogether 38 new coastal radar stations are being installed across the country in addition to the 46 existing ones.

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https://x.com/ANI/status/1758408821599355126?s=20 ---> Defence Ministry has given approval for proposal to buy nine maritime surveillance aircraft for the Indian Navy and six maritime patrol aircraft for the Indian Coast Guard. The 15 maritime patrol planes would be built upon the Made in India C-295 transport aircraft and the worth of the projects is around Rs 29,000 crore: Defence sources.
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