INS Tabar.
Posted on 11/18/2008 10:33:23 PM PST by MyTwoCopperCoins
NEW DELHI: Even as the world's largest supertanker the Saudi Sirius Star continues to be in the grip of pirates of the coast of Somalia, the Indian navy appears to have taken the lead in the fight against pirates.
After a successful operation against pirates last week when the Indian navy warship INS Tabar sank a Somalian pirate ship of the Gulf of Aden, at about 10 pm last night the navy spotted another pirate ship; it challenged the pirate ship which had several speed boats accompanying it, according to TV channel Times Now.
The pirate’s ship tried to ram the Tabar at which point the Tabar opened fire. No casualties have been reported on the Indian side.
The stealth frigate successfully repulsed the attack by the pirates and sunk their ship, an official said here on Wednesday.
“The pirates fired at INS Tabar, which is patrolling the waters off the Somali coast. The ship retaliated and sank the pirate vessel,” a navy official said.
Meanwhile the Sirius Star has anchored off the coast of Somalia in Eyl, even as pirates took over another Iranian-operated cargo vessel with a Hong Kong flag ‘Delight’. US navy commander Jane Campbell of the Bahrain-based 5th Fleet said the status of the crew and cargo was not known. There are some Indians among the 25-member crew.
In the first-ever action after being deployed in the Gulf of Aden, the Indian navy on November 11 thwarted an attempt by pirates to capture an Indian merchant vessel in the region. The ship, M V Jag Arnav, had recently crossed the Suez Canal and was eastward bound when it was surrounded by pirates, who tried to board and hijack the ship, navy sources in New Delhi said.
When the 38,265-tonne bulk carrier, owned by Mumbai-based Great Eastern Shipping Company, raised an alarm, it caught the attention of the Indian naval warship, INS Tabar, which was patrolling in the Gulf of Aden waters.
this is amusing.
the saudi’s act like hs and their biggest toy is taken from them!
whaaaaaa!
Go Indian Navy! Kill those pirates!
Now we need our US Navy to go in and start taking care of business.
I would think that the US Navy would be highly pleased.
We have LIVE TARGETS!!
I call BS.
Problem solved. Meanwhile, the UN and the diplomats world-wide wring their hands over the “problem” of pirates.
Woooooot!!!! Yay INDIA!
INS Tabar.
We have a SINK?
No nation on earth should help these parasites - the Saudis. They are drowning in oil and oil dollars yet expect other people to spend their money and their lives to protect their right to get richer.
Let them spend their own money and their own lives. It will leave them less money to bankroll Al Quaida and Wahhabist mosques and cleric who preach hatred against the west.
From being abroad and looking at foreign msm, I can tell you these pirates in this area (actually on both sides of Africa) have been going on for awhile now and each attack is getting more brazen than the preceeding one. They also do not discriminate as to who they attack. This is becoming one issue that the world would probably unite on to stop. I don’t see negoiations working for long. It is now where you have to negoiate each time they attack. It has become now a serious problem.
It's an old story. The hyenas mistake the lethargy of the behemoth for impotence, and then the behemoth stirs ...
THought it looked familiar
On 17 November 1997, Russia and India signed a USD $1 billion contract, for three Krivak III Class multi-purpose frigates. The Indian Navy wanted to fill the gap created by the decommissioning of the Leander Class frigates and until the Project 17 Class frigates enter service. After the signing of the contract, Severnoye Design Bureau began a detail design layout and the shipbuilder, Baltisky Zavod of St. Petersburg began preparations for their construction. The project involved around 130 suppliers from Russia, India, Britain, Germany, Denmark, Belarus, Ukraine and other countries including over 30 St. Petersburg-based naval design organizations and institutes. VT Halmatic of the UK has supplied a pair of Pacific 22 Mk.I rigid inflatable boats (RIBs), for use as general ship boats. These RIBs are designed primarily for ASW warfare and for the air defence of naval task forces. There are also a considerable number of Indian component suppliers. According to the original contract schedule, the Talwar was intended for handover in May 2002, with the Trishul to follow in November that year and the Tabar being accepted in May 2003.
Nice looking boat. Effective true.
A big Texas Salute to her Captain and crew. Hit ‘em again.
Someone answer me how you board a super tanker at full speed? Unless of course you have help from the bridge. RPGs and other small weapons are not going to do much damage to a ship this size. A few holes but no real damage.
Can’t you install hellfire missiles on the rails of ships?
It’s not anything physical that’s preventing the tankers from protecting themselves... its bureaucracy... namely the regulations against carrying even .22 pistols on any commercial vessel.
Reminds me of putting a sign in front of your house “no guns in this house” and wondering why your house is the one on the block that is always robbed.
This vessel doesn't look like one to mess-o-round.
It looks like its business is causing flotsam and jetsam.
INS Tabar escorting Jag ArnavIndian Naval Ship Tabar whilst on Anti Piracy Patrol in The Gulf Of Aden on 11 Nov 08 responded swiftly to alarms raised by two merchant ships under attack by pirates approximately 60 nautical miles east of port of Aden. |
Date: 11/12/2008
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Beautiful vessels, both. Thanks for that pic, hamboy.
Well, you’re free to call in witnesses for the defense, but they’re all on the bottom of the sea, in little tiny pieces...
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