India sinks Somali pirate ship

[+ghostrider883]

Larger Indian warship to fight pirates off Aden

 

New Delhi (IANS): The Indian Navy will be sending guided-missile destroyer INS Mysore to the Gulf of Aden for patrolling the waterways hit by a spate of ship hijackings by Somali pirates, defence sources said Thursday.

 

The move comes after a successful hostile action against Somali pirates in the area by the Indian Navy.

 

A Delhi class destroyer, INS Mysore will replace INS Tabar in the Gulf of Aden, a Navy official told IANS on condition of anonymity. He said the destroyer will set sail from Mumbai soon.

 

The official said a proposal of the shipping ministry to send four more warships to strengthen operations against piracy in that region was still pending.

 

The Indian Navy's stealth frigate INS Tabar Tuesday night engaged the pirates and sank a "mother vessel" that had two speedboats in tow. INS Tabar, which so far has escorted 35 merchant vessels passing through the region, had also staved off pirate attacks on two merchant ships last week.

 

The 6,900-ton Delhi class destroyers are the largest indigenously built warships till date and pack more fire power in them than frigates.

 

INS Mysore carries on board two Sea King helicopters, along with a Cheetah or a Chetak, and stock 16 Uran missiles, 100mm AK 100 Gun, four multi-barrel 30mm AK 630 gun.

 

With Marine Commandos, INS Mysore is said to be a potent force to patrol the Gulf of Aden to stop the pirates from attacking or hijacking merchant vessels.

 

Wouldn't it be a sight to see if the Mysore opens up on a pirate motor boat & tear it to shreds with its AK-630 gun. This comes in wake of another merchant ship manned by Indian crew getting hijacked yesterday .

[Fubar512]

Does anybody else out there think that this would make for a dynamite campaign for the ThirdWire series? "Pirates of the Gulf"

[+Typhoid]

Does anybody else out there think that this would make for a dynamite campaign for the ThirdWire series? "Pirates of the Gulf"

 

oh yea!!

 

:yes:

[Hans Topp]

Indian Navy 1 - Pirates 0

 

Keep the great work!!

[+Typhoid]

Indian Navy 1 - Pirates 0

 

Keep the great work!!

 

actually I think its Indian Navy 3 - Pirates 0

[TX3RN0BILL]

Does anybody know what the exact composition is of all the task forces committed to fight these somali pirates? Would be nice to know... It'll probably be more than enough firepower combined to handle the pirate threat once the ROEs get set to "clear lane- shoot any trespassers on sight"...

[+Typhoid]

Does anybody know what the exact composition is of all the task forces committed to fight these somali pirates? Would be nice to know... It'll probably be more than enough firepower combined to handle the pirate threat once the ROEs get set to "clear lane- shoot any trespassers on sight"...

 

not that can be discussed here

[JediMaster]

I'm going to guess it consists of sailors and ships and aircraft, all armed.

[+Typhoid]

I'm going to guess it consists of sailors and ships and aircraft, all armed.

 

one or two

[+SkippyBing]

The general composition is available through most news agencies i.e. which ships etc. Suffice to say you could probably figure out the general capabilities from that, the limitations are ROE and the capabilities of the weapons systems involved. You're basically stuck with guns and line of sight weaponry due to the size of the pirate vessels and the ROE (it helps if they shoot first), which leads to the second problem, there aren't enough ships to cover the area the pirates operate in effectively. Well not since they've started operating 450NM off shore anyway.

It's a big ass ocean to misquote Billy B Thornton in Armageddon.

[+Typhoid]

Saudi Arabia just announced that they are going to join the anti-piracy fleet.

 

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...refer=worldwide

 

a real and very bloody fight is brewing

[+ghostrider883]

India is planning to send two Navy Dornier/HAL Do-228s for aerial surveilance of the area. They are to be based in either Oman or Djibouti.

[+ghostrider883]

 

The Indian Navy stealth frigate INS Tabar used its A-190 100-mm cannon to smash this pirate mothership to bits on the evening of 18 November, 385 nautical miles south-west of Salalah port in Oman.

Edited November 25, 2008 by ghostrider883

[+ghostrider883]

Navy within law to sink pirated ship: Mehta

 

New Delhi, Dec 2 (PTI) Strongly defending the sinking of a Thai fishing trawler in Gulf of Aden a fortnight ago, Indian Navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta today said the Indian warship was within law and had done nothing wrong by striking at a pirated ship in self defence.

"I want to set the record straight, there is nothing that the navy has done wrong. And it is perfectly within law. Even if the ship had been pirated just at that morning," Mehta told reporters here.

 

He said INS Tabar, a stealth guided missile frigate, had been in anti-piracy patrol for over a month now and it had done a commendable work.

 

However, he expressed unhappiness over the claims of a Thai fishing company, and said the ship had been pirated and was put to use by the Somali sea brigands for activities that was against the laws of the seas.

 

"The fact remains that the Thai trawler was a pirated trawler. For all practical purposes and all rules of engagement the world over is that if they fire at men of war, we jolly well retaliate," Mehta said.

 

He asserted that further investigation had clearly revealed that the fishing trawler was used in the Gulf of Aden for a very long time for activities it should not have been doing.

 

Questioning the motives of the fishing trawler, the Navy chief said the ship had stocked large quantities of ammunition that led to it breaking into a huge, bright fireball after the Indian Navy warship fired at it. PTI

[JediMaster]

"The Thai gov't said, 'We don't care, we want our money!!!' while holding a Glock sideways at India."

[+Typhoid]

Navy within law to sink pirated ship: Mehta

 

New Delhi, Dec 2 (PTI) Strongly defending the sinking of a Thai fishing trawler in Gulf of Aden a fortnight ago, Indian Navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta today said the Indian warship was within law and had done nothing wrong by striking at a pirated ship in self defence.

"I want to set the record straight, there is nothing that the navy has done wrong. And it is perfectly within law. Even if the ship had been pirated just at that morning," Mehta told reporters here.

 

He said INS Tabar, a stealth guided missile frigate, had been in anti-piracy patrol for over a month now and it had done a commendable work.

 

However, he expressed unhappiness over the claims of a Thai fishing company, and said the ship had been pirated and was put to use by the Somali sea brigands for activities that was against the laws of the seas.

 

"The fact remains that the Thai trawler was a pirated trawler. For all practical purposes and all rules of engagement the world over is that if they fire at men of war, we jolly well retaliate," Mehta said.

 

He asserted that further investigation had clearly revealed that the fishing trawler was used in the Gulf of Aden for a very long time for activities it should not have been doing.

 

Questioning the motives of the fishing trawler, the Navy chief said the ship had stocked large quantities of ammunition that led to it breaking into a huge, bright fireball after the Indian Navy warship fired at it. PTI

 

concur. The fact that it had been a fishing trawler is completely irrelevant. It was, at the time of the sinking, a pirate ship and subject to the appropriate actions taken by the INS Tabar. Good on you India and don't back down! The issue of compensation for the loss of the ship is something for the lawyers to work out, but in my opinion the appropriate parties to the lawsuit are the pirates who hijacked the ship and then used it for their own nefarious purposes. The Thai owners should take the pirates to court (good luck with that!), not the Indian government.

 

Goes back to that old practical law of the sea. When you take a shot at an armed warship, plane, sub, etc. (of whatever navy), you better be prepared to suffer the consequences.

[FastCargo]

Thailand has a lot bigger problems (like the fact that their 2 major airports are completely shutdown due to an unhappy populace) to be worrying about an old commandeered fishing trawler.

 

FC

[Stick]

For those interested well its Article 101 UN Covention on the Laws of the Sea III(1982)-and a pirate ship is a pirate ship any way you look at it!(clauses a to c)

[Atreides]

"The Thai gov't said, 'We don't care, we want our money!!!' while holding a Glock sideways at India."

 

[+ghostrider883]

Indian Navy beats up Somali Pirates again

 

INS Mysore(D60), one of navy's Delhi class destroyer, is currently in the Gulf of Aden for Anti-Piracy Patrol Operations which are being conducted under the control of the Western Naval Command. Whilst escorting merchant vessels in the Gulf of Aden, the ship received a distress call on MMB Channel 16 from MV Gibe (Ethiopian Flag) at about 1100 hours on 13 Dec 08. MV Gibe reported that she was under attack by two boats closing her and firing small arms. MV Gibe opened retaliatory fire with small arms that were held onboard the vessel. The position reported by the merchant vessel was 13 nautical miles from Mysore at that time. The ship altered course to close MV Gibe and also launched her integral armed helicopter.

 

On sighting the helicopter and Mysore, the boats disengaged from MV Gibe and attempted escape. Mysore closed the vessels and ordered them to stop. The larger boat was a dhow was of green colour and 8-10m in length. It had taken the second smaller boat (a skiff) under tow. Subsequently, the name of the dhow was identified as ‘Salahaddin’, Hull No 758(2).

 

The dhow was boarded at 1230h by the ship’s Marine Commandos and a search carried out. 23 personnel (12 Somali and 11 Yemeni) surrendered on boarding. The search of dhow revealed a substantial cache of arms and equipment, including seven AK-47 and three other automatic rifles, along with thirteen loaded magazines; a rocket-propelled grenade-launcher along with rockets, cartridges and grenades; as many as three Outboard Motors (OBMs), a GPS Receiver, etc.

 

The personnel, arms, ammunition and equipment have been taken into custody by INS Mysore and will be handed over to appropriate authorities ashore and the ship will return to her patrol-duties.

 

 

 

 

[Jarhead1]

Pirate ship????? We all know that all those weapons are for their self protection, lol.

[macelena]

If they open fire, they are pirates. If they don´t, they are well disciplined pirates

 

PS. These weapons are for fishing http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk6Puz_sdts

Edited December 13, 2008 by macelena

[Shaolin]

The weapons look like they are more dangerous for their users than the victims...

[Ruggbutt]

The people who owned those guns should have been shot as well. Look at all the rust.

[Viggen]

Even an AK will likely have a problem with that about of rust. What are the closest rifles in that picture?

 

Nice work by the Indian Navy