Posted on 03/17/2024 6:28:16 AM PDT by george76
The major disruption caused by Yemeni Houthis in the Red Sea is hardly the only trouble spot in the world’s increasingly dangerous seas.
An Indian navy warship has intercepted a hijacked cargo ship in the Indian Ocean, safely rescued all 17 crew members, and detained all 35 Somali pirates.
The Indian navy vessel INS Kolkata came to the rescue of the Bulgarian ship MV Ruen, which was hijacked by pirates back on December 14, 2023. The operation lasted no less than 40 hours.
The hijacking of the Ruen was the first successful action by Somali pirates in the past six years, despite several international navies’ efforts to stop piracy in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.
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Until the Ruen was seized, there had been no successful hijacking of a merchant ship by Somali pirates since 2017.
Times of India reported:
“Assisted by INS Subhadra, [the Kolkata navy ship] on Saturday rescued all 17 crew-members without injury and forced all 35 pirates to surrender in a rescue operation that lasted 40 hours.
Kolkata had carried out the interception of the Pirate Ship Ruen almost [1600 miles] from the Indian Coast, and forced the pirate ship to stop through calibrated actions which were augmented by the [ship] Subhadra, [Drones] HALE RPA, P8I maritime patrol aircraft & [Marine Commandos] Marcos Prahars air-dropped by C-17 aircraft.”
The vessel was secured for the presence of illegal arms, ammunition, and contraband.
Good on India.
Someone needs to stop the anarchy.
I love to see the gentle sway of a Pirate hanging from a yardarm, in the wind.
For pirates, the appropriate response should have been to have them walk the plank in shark infested waters.
Streamed live on YouTube of course.
If they wanted to make a statement of deterrence.
I prefer the Russian method. Put them on a lifeboat then do target practice with a mini-gun.
Works for me. I was thinking the same thing.
That works, too.
I recall a few years ago a Russian ship was hijacked by Somali pirates. The Russian navy and special forces recaptured the ship, put all the pirates on their boat and sank it in a barrage of gunfire making a widely circulated video of the incident. I doubt any Russian flagged ships have been attacked by the Somali pirates since.
I support the Thomas Jefferson actions. IF a US flagged ship is attacked by these pirates, they need to meet the same fate as the Barbary Coast pirates.
The Indian Navy did a great job rescuing and treating the crew of the cargo ship Propel Fortune, and racing the injured to a hospital, several days ago.
What’s become of the stricken ship and the 2 dead that the Indians were not able to retrieve, I don’t know. Last I heard the Propel Fortune was afire and drifting.
Could it be our own overlords like piracy?
Why are the Somali pirates in custody?
You want to end this stuff? Feed them to the sharks.
Who knew India had a navy?
India has 4 aircraft carriers. Rafael fighter planes. Ballistic missile submarines. Maybe not a match for China, but not negligible either.
That would send a MUCH stronger message.
India has 2 carriers with a third cleared for construction. 26 Rafale-M will be equipping the new Carrier and the one just commissioned last year, with MiG-29s making up the rest of the complement. These 2 carriers are designed and built in India.
The Indian Navy operates an Akula class Nuclear sub leased from Russia for training. It carries non-nuke Indian made armament. 2 Indian designed and built nuclear subs - SSNs - the INS Arihant and the INS Arighat are operational and the K6 nuclear missile is almost ready to be deployed on these. In addition to these, there are Frigates, Destroyers, Corvettes and Land bases on the Andaman Islands astride the Chinese lines of communication in the Malacca Straits and a new one just commissioned off the South-Western seaboard in Minicoy Island where some of the 12 P8Is will be based along with a few missile corvettes.
I normally hate posting Wiki, but
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_Indian_Navy_ships
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