Indian Navy - News Folder - July 2002

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[Ananth]

Two more Coast Guard Stations in six months

[Ajay K]

Rafales patrolled the Indo-Pak coastline during the stand-off !!!

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Was abandoned Lebanese ship Al-Qaeda?s getaway vehicle?

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_11634,000600010001.htm

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Ship mystery a goof-up by Coast Guard

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=15588961

[kgoan]

Coast Guard should be permanent part of the Navy

[vishal]

Kalam had agreed to missile import in 1996 - Indiatimes
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_ID=15687818

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Konkan coast: 600-km invitation to terror

http://www.indian-express.com/full_story.php?content_id=5703

Defence purchase: MoD plans to make made-in-India a must

http://www.indian-express.com/full_story.php?content_id=5820

DRDO develops 26 anti-N-weapons systems

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?artid=15704809

[MN Kumar]

New navy base to defend Koodankulam N-project

Chinna Muttam harbour, located in Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu and about 1,050 km south of Chennai, will be the site for the new naval base.

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Some Ka-31 news from FI July-9 issue. Don't have a URL for this.

"The Indian navy's first 4 Ka-31s will be ready for delivery later this quarter once the final software problems are resolved. Indian naval personnel are training on the machines in Russia.

The Ka-31's are intended for the ex-Russian navy Admiral Gorhskov aircraft carrier which is being acquired by India, and for 3 Russian built Talvar frigates. India ordered 4 Ka-31's worth $92 million in Aug. 1999, signing a second $108 million contract for 5 more in Feb. last year. The first Indian helicopter, which was assembled at Kumertau based KUMAPE factory, entered test-flights in May of last year.

The Ka-31 has a 6m (19.7ft) antenna under the fuselage, which folds up against the underside for landing and take-off, but provides 360 degree surveillance in-flight. The Oko radar has been developed by Radio Engineering Research Institute in Nizhny Novgorod. It can detect 200 targets and track 20 at a 100-150 km maximum range against airborne targets and 250 km against surface targets.

RET kronshtadt integrated the Indian version's core avionics, including the Kabris satellite-based navigation/mapping system and improved cockpit layout".

The article starts of saying Russia is negotiating sale of Ka-31 with three or four countries with a variant optimised for land rather than over water.

[Vick]

Navy replaces vessel on patrol in Malacca Straits

http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/jul/16josy2.htm

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Flight of the albatross

http://www.the-week.com/22jul28/events3.htm

[ramana]

STRATMAG

Private sector to work on Indian submarine

THE INDIAN military has brought in private participation to work on parts of a highly classified nuclear submarine and test launcher for a nuclear-tipped sub-launched cruise missile (SLCM). According to the Jane's Defence Weekly, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is releasing work to the private sector to make parts of the submarine, known as the Advanced Technology Vessel (ATV) and the test launcher for the Sagarika (Oceanic) nuclear-armed SLCM.

Larsen & Toubro (L&T), based in Bombay, won the contract to build the ATV's hull. L&T has an annual turnover of Rs 80 billion ($1.7 billion). Selected for efficiency and better 'manpower management' than the state-owned facilities, the engineering company has also successfully developed a missile launcher to test the Sagarika, which L&T handed over to the Indian Navy for the first round of trials to be held later this year.

With a projected range of 300 km, the Sagarika has been designed at the Aeronautical Development Establishment under a classified naval weapons programme at Bangalore, southern India, along with "substantial" Russian input. Both L&T projects are based at the Hazira dockyard in Gujarat state, some 350 km north of Bombay. Official sources said L&T had already built sections of the ATV's hull (codename P4102) and floated them on a barge to Visakhapatnam on the east coast, the only Indian naval dockyard to refit submarines. The ATV will eventually be built at Bombay's Mazagon Dockyard.

[JTull]

Navy Propels Private Role In Defence Via Submarine Order For L&T

[VKumar]

Rolls Royce Bags pds. 21 M Indian naval contract.
British Commercial News, July/August 2002, a magazine published by UK High Commission in India.

"Rolls Royce business Syncrolift Inc has won a pds 21 million contract to provide a ship lifting system at a new Indian naval base. The shiplift, first of its kind in India, is scheduled to go into service at the Karwar base, Karnataka, in late 2004.

The lift with a capacity of almost 10,000 tons, is capable of handling all Indian navy vessels, up to and including the Delhi destroyer class. The hoists, platform and associated ship transfer system will be made in India and project manged by Syncrolift Inc, the world leader in shiplift systems with 224 installations in 67 countries."

Accompanying the article is a photo showing a large naval vessel being hauled up, almost like a pallet on a fork-lift!

So, Karwar will be ready by 2004 and much has already been completed, I guess.