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Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami at an event to dedicate INS Chennai to the State capital. | Photo Credit: R. Ragu

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/protect-fisherfolk-from-attacks/article18096312.ece
Chief Minister also calls for safeguarding interest in the Exclusive Economic Zone
Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Monday urged that the Indian fishermen must be protected from attacks (by Sri Lankan Navy) and called for safeguarding the maritime interests of the country.

Speaking at an event on board INS Chennai, which was dedicated to the city of Chennai on Monday, Mr. Palaniswami said, “Our fishermen must be protected against attacks so that they are peacefully engaged in the traditional occupation. The interest in the Exclusive Economic Zone must be protected.” However, the Chief Minister didn’t elaborate further.

Observing that the Navy personnel have always assisted the State during natural disasters, the Chief Minister stated that the State would continue to provide necessary support.

Last month, a 21-year old Indian fisherman from Tamil Nadu was shot dead allegedly by the Sri Lankan Navy while fishing in Palk Bay. The Tamil Nadu government had then urged the Centre to take up the issue with Colombo.

Earlier, the Navy’s Guided Missile Destroyer INS Chennai was dedicated to the city of Chennai in a ceremony presided over by the Chief Minister. The Chief Minister was received by Vice Admiral H.C.S. Bisht, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Eastern Naval Command. Ministers D. Jayakumar, S.P. Velumani, M.C. Sampath, K.T. Rajenthra Bhalaji, R. Kamaraj, K.C. Veeramani, K.C. Karuppannan and M. Manikandan were present. Lieutenant General R.K. Anand, General Officer Commanding of Dakshin Bharat Area, Rear Admiral Alok Bhatnagar, Flag Officer Commanding Tamil Nadu and Puducherry Naval area, and Inspector General Rajan Bargotra, Regional Commander of Coast Guard’s Eastern Region witnessed the dedication.

Chief Secretary Girija Vaidyanathan, DGP T.K. Rajendran, ADGP Coastal Security Group C. Sylendra Babu, Greater Chennai Corporation Commissioner D. Karthikeyan and Chennai Police Commissioner Karan Singha were also present during the ceremony.

 

[#hydra#]

Eagerly waiting for project 17b and vishakhapatinam clasd

 

[$@rJen]

Indian Navy may soon approach Government for 2nd Indigenous Aircraft Carrier

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Wednesday, April 19, 2017
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Discussions are on within the Indian Navy over the second aircraft carrier planned to be built in the country and it is likely to approach the government with a proposal in another two to three months, a senior Navy officer said on Tuesday.

Controller of Warship Production and Acquisition Vice Admiral D.M. Deshpande noted that there is a "bit of question mark" from the Defence Ministry's side due to the huge cost involved but added that there was a lot of "positivity".

"Lots of discussions are right now on within the Navy what type of an aircraft carrier we want, right from the tonnage, type of propulsion... We are debating on this. Once this debate is more or less within the Navy... we are clear on exactly what we want, we will take up this case with the ministry," he said at the curtain-raiser event of seminar 'Building India's Future Navy', set to be organised by industry chamber Ficci on May 31-June 1.

Deshpande said everyone wanted to be clear on the "requirement" before a final decision is taken.

"Right now there is a bit of question mark from the ministry's side because we have taken this up with the ministry on a few occasions... it is a huge ticket decision, and before some commitments are made on allocation of these funds everybody wants to be very clear on the requirements... these are being addressed before we take that up with the government for final clearance," he said.

He said there was "positivity", but added that the "big ticket" aircraft carrier will come at the expense of other things.

"There is lot of positivity, both from government side as well as from the Navy. I am sure within two-to-three months, we should be able to take it up with the ministry to get the funds. It is a very big ticket item, it will have to be at the expense of things, we need to take these calls before we can go about doing it," he said.

India at present has only one aircraft carrier, INS Vikramaditya -- a modified Russian Kiev-class aircraft carrier.

The other aircraft carrier -- INS Viraat, a British-built ship serving with the Indian Navy and the oldest carrier in service -- retired on March 6.

India's first indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, a 40,000-tonne ship, is meanwhile being built for the Indian Navy by Cochin Shipyard.

India at any time requires three aircraft carriers, one each on the east and west coasts, and a third one as a replacement for any of the ships that go for refit.

On May 13, 2015, the Defence Acquisition Council cleared construction of a second aircraft carrier and Rs 30 crore was allotted for the preparations.

The second indigenous aircraft carrier is likely to be nuclear-propelled.

 

[$@rJen]

Navy to Sign $4.9Bln Deal With S Korean Firm for Minesweeping Vessels

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Wednesday, April 19, 2017
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In a major announcement, the Indian Navy has said that it will sign $4.9 billion deal with South Korean defense firm Kangnam Corporation for the procurement of 12 new mine countermeasure vehicles (MCMVs) this year.

"Issues between Goa Shipyard and the South Korean collaborator in the project have been sorted out and the deal should be sealed by the end of this year," Vice Admiral DM Deshpande, Controller of Warship Production and Acquisition, said in New Delhi.

Last year, the Indian government had agreed to build 12 new MCMVs with the collaboration of a South Korean company at a shipyard in India. Indian defense ministry has revealed to a parliamentary panel that all the six MCMVs currently operational in Indian Navy will be retired by 2018.

This will leave the world's fifth largest navy without minesweepers, which is essential to detect and destroy mines laid by enemy forces to choke harbors and spread mayhem. India had bought six MCMVs from the erstwhile Soviet Union in the 1970s.
The deal was supposed to be concluded with Indian shipbuilder Goa Shipyard last year but it got delayed due to technology transfer issue. India was expecting delivery of first MCMVs under the contract in 2021 but it may get further delayed, which means the Indian Navy will have to cope without any MCMVs for more than three years at least.

The Indian Navy needs at least 24 MCMVs to plug the shortfall. China, on the other hand, has more than 100 minesweepers and mine countermeasure vehicles.

 

[Alphacharlie]

जय हिंद

 

[sudhir007]

better to go another vikrant class

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

Another challenge for IN. Designing an minesweeper.

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

Go for another 45000 Ton class. The building time is enough for other technologies for Nuke carriers to mature, and even Rafale M can be modified from Ski Jump carriers.

 

[Sankpal]

HAHAHA

what is funny?
if aircraft carriers are useless for India than even for China, Russia and US as well. if you talk about missile or submarine than you might don't know, how a carrier group works.

 

[$@rJen]

Centre will soon release funds for construction of India's Second Aircraft Carrier

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Thursday, April 20, 2017
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The Navy is said to be willing to submit a re-prioritized procurement plan to the government to make funds available for the construction of India's second aircraft carrier. This could mean holding back on other big-ticket purchases in favor of the carrier.

"There is a lot of positivity, both from the government side as well as the Navy. I am sure within two-to-three months; we should be able to take it up, second aircraft carrier plan, with the ministry to get the funds. It is a very big-ticket item, it will have to be at the expense of things, we need to take these calls before we can go about doing it," Controller of Warship Production and Acquisition, Vice Admiral DM Deshpande said.

Finance / Defence Minister Mr. Arun Jaitley has already hinted that the Ministry will be ready within two to three months to release funds for the construction of India's next generation aircraft carrier. The proposed aircraft carrier could be one of the largest in the world.

Indian armed forces are managing procurement at low-level budgetary allocations against the projected demand for the services. “The budgetary allocations for capital acquisition have declined for the three services not only since 2015-16.

Similarly, against a projection of $21.96 billion for the capital budget in 2017-18, only $13 billion have been allocated from annual budget 2017-18 for various Services (Army, Navy, Joint staff, Air force, DGOF, R&D and DGQA). This decline in the allocation for the capital acquisition will definitely affect several procurement proposals and contracts which are to be finalized in 2017-18,” observed a parliamentary panel report on defense.

The procurement plan for capital modernization schemes may have to be reviewed and re-prioritized based on available funds, sources in the Defense Ministry said. Indian Navy has set a target to finalize the deal worth $9 billion deal including minesweepers vessels, Landing Platform Dock by end of this year while it has recently signed a deal worth $2 billion for Barak 8 missile from Israel.

The Navy will commission the country’s first indigenous 40,000-ton aircraft carrier Vikrant, currently being constructed at Kochi, by end-2018. The project has been delayed for many years and it revised the estimated cost to $2.9 billion. After decommissioning of aircraft carrier Virat, the Indian Navy is dependent on the recently acquired INS Vikramaditya (the former Admiral Gorshkov of the Russian Navy).

 

[Archie]

A third carrier is a waste of money unless you have the CBG in place

Navy is better of spending money on Minesweepers, SSNs and ASW Helis, coz thats where we are lagging

we will have 2 CBGs with one deployed at all time, thats more than what the French and The British and The Russians are capable of doing

why spend valuable resources on an Ego boost

 

[RPK]

 

[INDIAISM]

I don't know why i have a feeling that HMS Prince of Charles will be offered to us or maybe France by UK by 2022-23 and the offer will be so attractive that it will be hard for any of us to leave it.....
Which will create hurdle for our 2nd indigenous Aircraft carrier....

 

[Hindustani78]

Ministry of Defence

20-April, 2017 15:55 IST
Chief of Naval staff honours Naval Gallantry and non Gallantry Award winners at Naval Investiture Ceremony

Naval Investiture Ceremony, an annual event for the Indian Navy, was held at Command Parade Ground, Eastern Naval Command Visakhapatnam today, 20 April 2017. Admiral Sunil Lanba PVSM, AVSM, ADC, Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS), conferred Gallantry and non Gallantry Awards to their recipients on behalf of the President of India at an impressive ceremonial parade.

Admiral Sunil Lanba was received at the parade ground by Vice Admiral HCS Bisht, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Naval Command. The CNS inspected a 50 men Armed Guard and reviewed the platoons of Naval and DSC personnel drawn from various ships and establishments of the ENC.

Speaking on the occasion, Admiral Lanba said that the occasion is of special significance, as it allows us to formally acknowledge commendable gallantry as well as devotion to duty of the fellow shipmates. He also thanked the family members of the award winners for their support to the service personnel in their performance of duty. He added that the core values - Duty, Honour and Courage forms the fundamental traits expected from all naval personnel. The award winners have displayed these and many more qualities such as patriotism, courage, fighting spirit, integrity sincerity, perseverance, discipline humility and selflessness that would have come to define our fine service. He also said that he firmly believed that it is the team work and never say die attitude of naval personnel that has made the Indian navy a strong and capable maritime force in the world today. The leadership, foresight and devotion to duty displayed by naval personnel has enabled a steady growth of our service and transformed us into a blue water navy.

Lt Cdr Vikash Kumar Narwal, Lt Cdr Neeraj Kumar, Veer Singh Chief Petty Officer Clearance Diver I and Rakesh Kumar Hull Artificer-4 (posthumously) were awarded Nao Sena Medals (Gallantry) for their indomitable courage, conspicuous gallantry and outstanding professionalism. Other awards presented included eight Nao Sena Medals for Devotion to Duty, sixteen Vishisht Seva Medals, Sarvottam Jeeven Rakshak Padak awarded to Cdr Shishir Kumar Yadavannavar (posthumous), Jeeven Rakshak Padak to Lt Cdr Kapil Kumar Shishodia and Shri Neelkant Ramesh Harikantra LASCAR-1. Captain Ravi Dhir Medal was awarded to Aravind Marisamy Master Chief Air Artificer II and Lieutenant VK Jain Memorial Gold Medal was awarded to Commander Ravi Kumar Singh.

The CNS also presented unit citation to two afloat units and six shore establishments who have delivered exceptional performance over the past one year. These include IN Ships Trikand, Sunayna, IN Air Squadron 312A, Command Clearance Diving Team, Mumbai, INS Eksila at Visakhapatnam, Naval Ship Repair Yard, Karwar, Base Victualling Yard, Kochi and INS Kardip in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. Naval Dockyard, Mumbai and INS Shivaji at Lonavala, Maharastra were awarded with the ‘CNS Trophy for Best Green Practices’ for the environment friendly / green initiatives.

Apart from the relatives of the award winners, the Ceremonial parade was also attended by Flag Officers, Commanding Officers of various ships, submarines and establishments and a large number of service and civilian personnel and their families.

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[Gessler]

I don't know why i have a feeling that HMS Prince of Charles will be offered to us or maybe France by UK by 2022-23 and the offer will be so attractive that it will be hard for any of us to leave it.....
Which will create hurdle for our 2nd indigenous Aircraft carrier....

It'll still be a STOVL carrier which will be useless to us unless we buy F-35B. Or if we spend huge amounts to remodel it for STOBAR/CATOBAR ops. There's no way it can be economically viable. Not happening.