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India wants USS Trenton rechristened Jalashva
The Indian Express ^ | 02/11/06 | Shiv Aroor

Posted on 11/04/2006 4:27:17 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki

Navy wants USS Trenton rechristened Jalashva

Shiv Aroor

Posted online: Thursday, November 02, 2006 at 0000 hrs

NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 1: With five months to go for the American warship USS Trenton to join the Indian fleet, the Navy has proposed that the amphibious vessel be rechristened INS Jalashva — Sanskrit for Sea Horse — when it is commissioned in March next year. Still to be approved by President APJ Abdul Kalam, the name was prioritised as the Navy’s top choice among a few others by just retired Navy Chief Admiral Arun Prakash.

The other two large amphibious ships in the Navy are INS Magar (crocodile) and INS Gharial (another reptile from the crocodile family). From a list of names, Jalashva was ticked by the former Navy Chief before the file was sent to Rashtrapati Bhavan, sources said. The USS Trenton, with the motto “No Greater Gator” was commissioned in 1971 and named after the capital of New Jersey state.

The 17,000-ton warship, likely to be based at Visakhapatnam under the Eastern Naval Command, will be the Navy’s second largest vessel after aircraft carrier INS Viraat, which itself will move to second place in size when the Russian aircraft carrier rechristened INS Vikramaditya is commissioned in late 2008.

The Navy got its first taste of American amphibious warfare equipment when it exercised with the US Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG), a task force that included the USS Boxer, Washington’s amphibious flagship, off the Goa coast this week.

About the Trenton, the new Navy Chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta yesterday said, “It brings about a different dimension to our fighting capabilities. We will have a capability to influence the land battle with long-range weapons and the ability to transport large numbers of people from one place to another.”

The Navy is also in negotiations to purchase six H-3 Sea King maritime utility transport helicopters for operations off the Trenton’s deck.


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1 posted on 11/04/2006 4:27:18 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
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2 posted on 11/04/2006 4:44:37 AM PST by gridlock (The GOP will pick up at least TWO seats in the Senate and FOUR seats in the House in 2006)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

I'm curious as to why they like second hand ships.


3 posted on 11/04/2006 4:46:52 AM PST by csvset (Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil & inhumane)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

rechristened


Ahh they actually give Jesus the glory aka Christen.


4 posted on 11/04/2006 4:46:59 AM PST by MARKUSPRIME
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To: csvset

Because you don't have to build them.


5 posted on 11/04/2006 4:50:23 AM PST by usmcobra (I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese, that why I don't sing.)
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To: csvset
Cheaper, and available now, I would guess.

I'm curious as to why they like second hand ships.

6 posted on 11/04/2006 4:52:17 AM PST by Ready4Freddy ("Everyone knows there's a difference between Muslims and terrorists. No one knows what it is, tho...)
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rechristened

Ahh they actually give Jesus the glory aka Christen.


I noticed that too. It's like saying "Let's re-muslim the ship as "The Lord Gotama Buddha".
7 posted on 11/04/2006 4:55:08 AM PST by starbase (Understanding Written Propaganda (click "starbase" to learn 22 manipulating tricks!!))
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To: csvset

Host of reasons-gives you the leeway to train on an old inexpensive platform while you develop the desired spectrum of capabilities for a real amphibious capability.The Trenton would be mean't for just that purpose covering both operational as well as training requirements.Many nations do that when developing their submarine capabilities.Buy an used boat & keep it around for around 5-10 years before your real hardware arrives.

The Russian carrier mentioned here hardly saw meaningful deployment with the Soviet fleet,so when upgraded,you could call it around 75% new.


8 posted on 11/04/2006 5:14:42 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
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To: starbase; MARKUSPRIME
It's like saying "Let's re-muslim the ship

Or the Hindi term he probably used was translated into English as "rechristened"

9 posted on 11/04/2006 5:17:39 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (A planned society is most appealing to those with the arrogance to think they will be the planners)
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To: SauronOfMordor; starbase
All US Navy ships have christening [naming] ceremonies, where the ship is named by the Sponsor, and subsequent commissioning ceremonies, where the ship is accepted for service.
10 posted on 11/04/2006 5:26:39 AM PST by Ready4Freddy ("Everyone knows there's a difference between Muslims and terrorists. No one knows what it is, tho...)
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"Cheaper, and available now, I would guess."

Also superior in quality and reliability than anything they could build or buy elsewhere.

We forget sonmetimes I think that "Yankee-Built" is still the best that money can buy in military hardware, anyway.

11 posted on 11/04/2006 5:48:02 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: csvset

I think a little bit more on the cynical side; we know how they were built, what they contain and how well they operate. In the event our so-called latest "Allies" turn on us (it's happened before and will again), we know better how to destroy these vessels. Am I bad or what?


12 posted on 11/04/2006 5:51:56 AM PST by john drake (Roman military maxim; "oderint dum metuant," i.e., "let them hate, as long as they fear.")
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Because a good Patel knows a bargain when they see one. ;-)


13 posted on 11/04/2006 5:53:15 AM PST by Clemenza (I have such a raging clue!)
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To: csvset
I'm curious as to why they like second hand ships.

Price

14 posted on 11/04/2006 5:55:50 AM PST by A. Pole (Russian proverb: "All are not cooks that walk with long knives")
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In addition, when we sell a ship to another country, we "dumb it down" a bit so it doesn't have the full capabilities of a US-flag ship. They can duke it out with each other, but we know that we will have an edge even if we take them on with the same class vessel.


15 posted on 11/04/2006 5:57:15 AM PST by SlowBoat407 (A living insult to islam since 1959)
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To: A. Pole; Clemenza

Reports are that we sold the Trenton to India for $50 million, not bad for a ship commissioned in 1971, I think.


16 posted on 11/04/2006 6:04:21 AM PST by Ready4Freddy ("Everyone knows there's a difference between Muslims and terrorists. No one knows what it is, tho...)
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To: csvset

The low cost of initial investment.


17 posted on 11/04/2006 6:05:45 AM PST by exnavy (God bless America)
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To: csvset

We put a lot of miles on our ships, but we take very good care of them.


18 posted on 11/04/2006 6:06:30 AM PST by Doohickey (I am not unappeasable. YOU are just too easily appeased.)
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Isn't it bad luck to rename a ship?


19 posted on 11/04/2006 6:16:22 AM PST by disraeligears (How was the CREAM Madison Square Garden Concert?)
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Not bad at all, when you consider the alternative of breaking it down (in India, most likely--LOL) and selling it for scrap.


20 posted on 11/04/2006 6:20:08 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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