Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Monday, Dec 15, 2003
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Monday, Dec 15, 2003 |
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Security Coast guard vessels showcase skills Our Bureau
Mangalore , Dec. 14 THE offshore patrol vessels, INS Sujata and INS Sharda, exhibited their prowess in defending the coastal region at the `Day at Sea' programme, organised by the Southern Naval Command, Kochi, in Mangalore. Apart from these vessels, the versatile helicopter of Indian Navy, Chetak, and the inshore minesweepers, INS Malpe and INS Mahe, and the coast guard ship, `Sarojini Naidu', also gave a splendid performance in the sea. Nearly 200 persons on INS Sujata and INS Sharda witnessed daredevil acrobatics of the Indian Navy. The inshore minesweepers, INS Malpe and INS Mahe, which are designed for search, location, and destruction of moored, ground, acoustic, magnetic and contact mines close to the coast, aptly demonstrated their role in clearing mines. In the search and rescue operation demonstration, Chetak helicopter of the Indian Navy, which disembarked from INS Sharda, "rescued" a person stranded in the sea. Chetak's acrobatic in the sky was a feast for the eyes of spectators. This all-terrain all-weather helicopter, which can operate from the decks of Indian naval ships, has been modified to carry torpedoes and depth charges for anti-submarine warfare. The offshore patrol vessels, mounted with Bofors guns and medium and light machine guns, demonstrated how they could be used in anti-aircraft missile launching operation. The water propelled coast guard ship, Sarojini Naidu, which was accompanying the INS Sujata and INS Sharda, displayed its manoeuvrability in the sea. In the jackstay event, the offshore patrol vessels, which came side-by-side with a distance of 100 metres between them, transported persons from one ship to another. Later, addressing presspersons on the deck, the Naval Officer in-charge (Karnataka), Capt. Kushal Dang, stated that the Navy Day is celebrated to commemorate the exploits of the Indian Navy in the 1971 war. On December 4, 1971, the decisive action by the Indian Naval missile boats on Karachi withered the war-making potential of the adversaries. He said that Sea Bird Naval Project in Karwar is likely to be completed by 2010. The Captain of INS Sujata, Cdr K.K. Shankar, said his ship was the seventh and the last of the four offshore vessels indigenously built at Hindustan Shipyard Ltd. Commissioned on November 3, 1993, it has patrolled the country's territorial waters and exclusive economic zones for 20,536 hours covering 2,47,579 nautical miles, he said. The ship has been instrumental in monitoring and surveillance of sea lanes of communications and maintaining presence in the areas of nation's interests, he added.
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