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India nuclear submarine ready by 2009:
navy chief

An Indian-built nuclear-powered submarine will be ready for sea trials in two years, and the navy has ordered 32 new
warships, naval chief Sureesh Mehta said.

India, which carried out a string of nuclear tests in 1998, has already built
ballistic missiles for its army and configured warjets to carry such weapons.
"Our scientists have confirmed that they would have the advance technology vessel (nuclear submarine) project ready
for trials by 2009," Mehta told reporters.
In India's nuclear deterrent plans, "placing of nuclear weapons under the sea is the third triad which at present we
don't have and we hope at one point we will," he said. Mehta also said New Delhi was negotiating with Moscow to
lease a Russian nuclear-powered submarine, which he said was "to enable our men to train on how to operate nuclear
reactors and other platforms."

The announcements came after Mehta said he rejected a Russian request for an additional 1.2 billion dollars to finish a
deal struck in 2004 to refurbish a Soviet-era aircraft carrier, Admiral Gorshkov.
He warned Russia, which accounts for 73 percent of India's military supplies, that delays on the carrier work could
mean that preferential treatment in future arms deals could be scrapped.
"We cannot put all our eggs in one basket and so we must have a multi-vendor opportunity," he said. "This is how we
are going to deal with Russia now."

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DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2007 – 280

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Deem um salto ao shippspotting.com, foram lá colocadas nos ultimos dias muitas fotos de Navios de Guerra Indianos, tiradas em Mumbai(ex-Bombaim)

fica aqui uma do R22 INS Viraat (ex-HMS Hermes) para aguçar o apetite, as fotos são muito boas

http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/mya ... lid=545970

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India - Deaths on board INS Jalashwa
due to gas leakage, says Navy

The deaths of five Navy personnel on board a refurbished ex-U.S. Navy ship on Friday were caused by inhalation of
toxic gas that leaked from a compartment, and not by an explosion or a fire as some reports said.
“Further inputs indicate that the accident was the result of the inadvertent inhalation of H2S [hydrogen sulphide] gas
by the repair party carrying out maintenance in one of the compartments of the ship,” said navy spokesperson Nirad
Sinha.
The ship, recently bought from the U.S., was engaged in an exercise with other Navy units between Visakhapatanam
and Port Blair. A team was trying to trace the source of the leakage when they were overpowered by the fumes.
V.R. Krishna Rao, D.R. Kumar Chaitanya, Ramesh Kumar Nayak, Deepak Shivran and Narendra Yadav died on the
spot. Their bodies have been brought to Port Blair from where they will be airlifted to the mainland by the Air Force
aircraft. Lt. Cdr. Sweth Gupta, Lt. Ruchir Prasad and naval electrician Yatish Pawar were incapacitated and have been
hospitalised.
A court of inquiry has been ordered and it could examine whether the leakage was due to a slip up while the ageing
Austin class LPD (landing platform dock) ship was being refurbished in the U.S. The accident could also decelerate
moves to buy a second LPD — USS Nashville — from the U.S. The ship’s renovation had been affected by cost and
time overruns “because there was more work than anticipated,” a senior U.S. military officer said recently.
He was part of a team that had visited India to “understand” New Delhi’s requirements for military hardware over the
next five years.
The second biggest ship in the navy’s inventory after the aircraft carrier INS Viraat, the acquisition of INS Jalashwa
(earlier USS Trenton) improves the Indian armed forces ability to quickly land a large contingent of troops.
After buying the USS Trenton, India continues to look at the U.S. for military platforms for better troop transportation
ability. The Cabinet Committee on Security recently cleared an Indian Air Force proposal to acquire all-weather 24-
hours troop transportation aircraft from the U.S. in a deal estimated at about $1 billion.


Coincidentally, the last serious accident at sea also occurred on an amphibious warfare vessel in the same month two
years ago. Five sailors aboard INS Magar were killed in an explosion while dumping expired ammunition in the sea
off the coast of Visakhapatanam. A naval submarine recently had a close shave with a merchant vessel but it returned
to the port with no casualties and a damaged antenna. Source : hindu.com

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Mais BRONCA com o ex-USS Trenton

US disarms Indian ship
- Purchase terms disallow use in war, permit American onboard survey
SUJAN DUTTA

New Delhi, March 14: India bought its second-largest warship, the INS Jalashva, from the US after signing away the authority to use the vessel in the event of a war. It has also granted an unprecedented right to the US to board and take an inventory of the ship’s capabilities whenever it wants to.

The acceptance of a “restrictive clause” in the contract for the ship — it cost about $50 million (around Rs 202 crore) — is political dynamite in India. The Left has been suspecting that India is bending, if not breaking, convention to accommodate US interests as it pursues closer military relations with the Pentagon.

By the navy’s definition, a warship is a “sovereign piece of territory in the seas”. But the US has been granted the right to embark the ship even after selling it to the Indian Navy.

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[Carlos Mathias]

Coleirão de adamantium recoberta de titânio.

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acho que a India vai pensar 2 vezes antes de "comprar" mais navios á USN....

[Pedro Gilberto]

Coleirão de adamantium recoberta de titânio.

e tem gente que ainda não acredita.......
agora imagina a coleira dos F-16IN!!!

[]´s

[Carlos Mathias]

Mas coleira americana poooooode.

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Russia to start supplying MiG-29K fighters to India in May

Moscow March 14, 2008 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will start deliveries of MiG-29K Fulcrum-D carrier fighters to India for the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier in May, the chief of the Indian Navy Staff said on Friday.

Admiral Suresh Mehta, who heads a group of Indian military officials that arrived in Russia on Thursday on a week-long visit, inspected on Friday the assembly of MiG-29K Fulcrum-D fighters at a plant near Moscow.

"We are nearing the [aircraft] delivery stage. The first MiG-29K fighter will be transferred in May this year," Mehta said, adding that the deliveries under contract had been "slightly delayed."

The contract, signed on January 20, 2004, stipulates the delivery of 12 single-seat MiG-29K and 4 two-seat MiG-29KUB in the period from 2007 to 2009, to be later deployed on the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier, being refitted in Russia for the Indian Navy.

A MiG spokesman confirmed on Friday the timeframe for the deliveries of MiG fighters to the Indian Navy.
"The contract has been signed, and we are finishing the construction of the first batch of MiG-29K fighters and plan to start deliveries in May," the spokesman said.

Also on the agenda of the Indian delegation's visit are discussions on a controversial contract on modernization of the aircraft carrier.

After long-running delays and disputes, Russia and India agreed in February to raise refit costs for the aircraft carrier, berthed at the Sevmash shipyard in north Russia for the past 12 years.

Vijay Singh, the Indian defense secretary who inspected the Admiral Gorshkov in late February, said there would be "a substantial increase" in the "reworked estimate" for modernization work on the ship.

The minister did not mention any figures, but according to The Times of India, New Delhi is willing to pay another $600-800 million for the 44,570-ton aircraft carrier.

"It should be completed by mid-2010. After that, it will undergo 18 months of extensive sea trials by the Russian Navy to ensure all systems are working properly," he said.

The carrier, renamed the Vikramaditya, is to replace India's INS Viraat carrier, which although still operational is 50 years old.

India contracted the $1.5 billion Admiral Gorshkov for its navy in 2004. Moscow has since demanded an additional $1.2 billion, which New Delhi replied was "exorbitant."

The defense secretary said Vice-Admiral Dilip Deshpande, the controller of warship production and acquisition, would visit Russia to work out "the essentiality and reasonableness of costs" by the end of March.

After it is has been refitted, the Gorshkov is expected to be seaworthy for 30 years.

The contract to deliver the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier to India, which state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport signed with the Indian Navy, covers the modernization of the ship and equipping it with modern weaponry, including MiG-29K Fulcrum aircraft and Ka-27 Helix-A and Ka-31 Helix-B anti-submarine helicopters.

Meanwhile, the chief of the Indian Navy Staff called on Friday "a hoax" reports of a US offer to provide India with a much-sought-after aircraft carrier to replace the outdated INS Viraat.

According to various US sources, Washington was likely to offer the Indian Navy the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier - to be decommissioned in 2008 - for free, provided India agrees to purchase 65 Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornets for onboard deployment.

"These rumors are nothing but a hoax created by the media. As far as I am concerned, our country has never received such an offer," Admiral Suresh Mehta told a news conference.

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1º MIG 29KUB para a Marinha Indiana

[Carlos Mathias]

Porque a MB não pensa nuns desses no SP? Operariam com folga e são infinitamente melhores que qualquer A-4, mesmo reformados. Fazer o quê né?

[Alitson]

Porque a MB não pensa nuns desses no SP? Operariam com folga e são infinitamente melhores que qualquer A-4, mesmo reformados. Fazer o quê né?

Não operam não... Mesmo retirando as catapultas e colocando um Ski Jump, os aparelhos de parada estão em uma pista curta, vamos assim dizer. Precisamos de um NAe maior, talvez até mais leve, mas com mais pista, vamos assim dizer... Antes de tudo, segurança nas operações...

Abraços...

[Carlos Mathias]

Será? Esse avião é bem menor que um SU-33 cara... E se decola de uma rampa, com catapulta é mole. Esse PA operou os Rafale com alguma restrição e SUE liberado geral. Há tanta diferença de peso de um MIG-29K para um SUE?

[Alitson]

Será? Esse avião é bem menor que um SU-33 cara... E se decola de uma rampa, com catapulta é mole. Esse PA operou os Rafale com alguma restrição e SUE liberado geral. Há tanta diferença de peso de um MIG-29K para um SUE?

O A-12 opera com segurança o SEM, A-4 e F-8, apenas...

Já quanto ao peso, bem é praticamente o DOBRO.

SEM:

vazio = 6,5t
carregado = 11,5t

MiG-29

vazio = 11t
carregado = 17t

Abraços...

[Carlos Mathias]

Mas como é que o povo tá implorando Rafale e F-18 pro SP então?