jal hans(water swan)-----Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel launched Jal Hans, the first seaplane of Pawan Hans Helicopters Limited, at a ceremony held in Mumbai today.
Patel said the government planned to expand the service to India’s popular island and coastal destinations. The Centre was permitting 100 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in this sector and service providers like Pawan Hans should float a subsidiary to run a fleet of seaplanes, he added.
Seaplanes would also be introduced in other areas of India like Lakshadweep, Goa, Orissa. Seaplane, a fixed-wing aircraft capable of taking off and landing on water, is ideal when island is far from land or when there is no landing strip. Unlike regular aircraft, these do not require a large runway.
This is the first time that seaplane operations have been introduced in India. Jal Hans is a Cessna Caravan 208 A Amphibian fitted with modern navigation features of any large jet. With a seating capacity of 10, of which eight are passenger seats, it can travel up to 250 km in about an hour and land on most calm waters. It can also land on ground using the wheels configuration.
The first seaplane service will be operationalised in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands as per an MoU signed between the Andaman and Nicobar Administration and Pawan Hans Helicopters. It will connect Port Blair with Havelock and subsequently other islands in north Andaman.
At Port Blair, it will operate from the airport, at Havelock and Diglipur, it will operate from a waterdromme. Facilities for ferrying passengers from the shore to pontoons, sanitisation of the waterdromme before take-off and landing, speed boats with 10-passenger capacity, a standby inflatable Gemini boat and one floating jetty (pontoon) will be provided at each location.
According to officials, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands have been witnessing steady increase in tourist inflow, as the tropical rain forests and waters of the Bay of Bengal are home to a vast collection of plants, animals and marine life. Adventure tourism, including trekking, island camping, snokelling and scuba diving are also becoming popular there. Seaplane operations are expected to boost tourism, they add.
Know the amphibian
l Fixed-wing aircraft can take off from and land on water and earth surface
l Has a seating capacity of 10 and can travel up to 250 km in an hour
l Equipped with modern navigation features
l First service to be operationalised in Andamans
INS Tarkash, a stealth frigate that recently joined the Western fleet is built with the
help of _________?
[A]United States
[B]France
[C]Israel
[D]Russia
Russia
The Indian Navy got a major fillip to its firepower with the arrival of INS Tarkash, a
stealth frigate that arrived off the coast of Mumbai to join the Western fleet. Built by
the Yantar shipyard, Kaliningrad, Russia, INS Tarkash was commissioned on
November 9 by Vice-Admiral Shekhar Sinha, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief,
Western Naval Command. Tarkash is the second of three project 1135.6 (follow-on
Talwar class) ships ordered by Indian Navy, the first being INS Teg, which joined the
fleet in June this year. Trikand, the third stealth frigate, is likely to be delivered by
mid-2013. INS Teg is a modern and contemporary warship with advanced
technologies. She is hailed as an icon of Indo-Russian military co-operation,
heralding a new dimension on the partnership. INS Tarkash is armed with an
advanced combat suite, comprising an optimal blend of Russian and Indian cuttingedge
technologies. Her arsenal includes the BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles,
surface-to-air missile system, torpedoes and anti-submarine rockets.
Indian Coast Guard Ship H-189
• It is the 3rd of the series of 12 Air Cushion Vehicles (ACVs) designed and built by Griffon Hoverworks
Limited (GHL), UK. It was recently commissioned at Mumbai.
• The ACV is capable of undertaking multifarious tasks such as surveillance, interdiction, search and rescue
and rendering assistance to small boats/craft in distress at sea.
INS Tarkash commissioned into Navy
November 13th, 2012
Russia-built multirole stealth frigate INS Tarkash
- Tarkash belongs to the second batch of three
modified Krivak-III (Talwar) class frigates India ordered from Russia in 2006 under a $1.6-billion contract.
- The first frigate of the batch, INS Teg, was delivered in April and the third one, INS Trikand, is undergoing dock trials and is expected to be handed over next summer after completing sea trials in the Baltic Sea.
- The ship’s sonar and its entire communications set-up are Indian
- Russia ready to discuss shifting construction of warships to India
India's recently commissioned INS Tarkash stealth frigate has been constructed
in which among the following countries?
[A]Russia
[B]USA
[C]France
[D]Japan
Russia
Enhancing its firepower, the Indian Navy commissioned 'INS Tarkash', the second of
its three stealth frigates being built in Russia, at the Yantar shipyard in Kaliningrad.
INDIAN COAST GUARD SHIP(ICGS) VIJIT, THE SECOND IN THE SERIES OF 90-m OFF SHORE PATROL VESSELS (OPV), WAS COMMISIONED BY MINISTER OF STATE FOR DEFENCE M M PALLAM TAJU AT GOA ON DEC 13,2010
INDIA'S FIRST INDIGENOUSLY BUILT SUBMARINE IS INS SHALKI
AUVs-India is all set to take a giant leap forward
India is all set to take a giant leap forward with the development of multipurposeAutonomous Underwater Vehicles
(AUV) and submadrones, underwater drones.
DRDO) has come a long way in indigenously designing and building a batch of multiple AUVs to meet the Navy’s quality
requirements of 10 such platforms primarily for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), mine mitigation
and sensor deployment.
The Naval Science and Technology Laboratory (NSTL), a DRDO firm based in Visakhapatnam has transformed a bunch
of AUVs from handheld slow-speed ones, to military-class with the competence to serve in the whole range of
maritime security, spanning coastal and port defence to deep-sea operations.
For the time being, the NSTL’s motivated programme ‘Autonomous Sea Vehicle’ (ASV), strives for building under-water
vehicles ranging from Micro-AUVs weighing 10 Kg to giant Unmanned Combat Undersea Vehicles (UCUV) weighing
over 12 tonnes on the tune of the US Navy’s ‘Manta Unmanned Underwater Vehicle’ programme.
Navy
The
Navy and Coast Guard have been asked by the Defense Ministry to complete
the
first phase of the Coastal Radar Network
(CRN) by October, 2012 to monitor
the
movement of suspicious vessels in Indian waters. It aims to plug the loopholes
in
country’s maritime security.
The CRN is a vital constituent of the coastal security
mechanism which
will ensure monitoring and identification of maritime traffic.
| The 8th meeting of Heads of Asian Coast Guard Agencies Meeting (HACGAM) will be held on Oct 03, 2012 in New Delhi. This is the first ever meeting of the HACGAM in the South Asian Region which is being co-hosted by the Indian Coast Guard and Japan Coast Guard under the auspices of Nippon foundation, Japan. HACGAM is an apex level forum facilitating congregation of all the major Coast Guard Agencies of Asian region. Sea Bird Naval Project, which has placed Karwar on the Defence map of the country, is ready for operation. The first ship is expected to arrive at the harbour on December 4 for trial. |
India successfully test fired naval version of Prithvi missile-Dhanush, from a naval
ship off the coast of Balasore, Odisha. The missile is indigenously developed by
DRDO.
Dhanush Missile
Naval version of Prithvi missile
Nuclear capable
Ballistic missile
Range: 350km
/
Indian navy successfully test-fires BrahMos
2012-10-09 01:10:15 Puneet
The Indian Navy successfully test-fired the BrahMos
missile from a warship off the Goa coast. It is a 290- km
range, supersonic cruise missile, capable of carrying a
conventional warhead of 300 kg. The missile is developed
by Indo-Russian joint venture.
The missile was test-fired from guided missile frigate INS
Teg. It is a two-stage missile, the first one solid and the
second one ramjet liquid propellant. It has already been inducted into the Army and
Navy, and the Air Force version is in final stage of trial.
Navy
The Indian Navy Western Fleet, which forms a Sword Arm, received a
fillip to its combat power with the arrival of the latest acquisition — INS Teg. The ship
built by M/s Yantar Shipyard, Russia, is the first of three Talwar class follow-on
ships ordered by the Indian Navy.The frigate was commissioned on April 27 at
Kaliningrad in Russia and has a crew of 24 officers and 229 sailors.
INS Teg is an advanced version of Talwar class frigates. 3.INS Teg is armed with supersonic Brahmos cruise missiles.
Present fleet
Auxiliary fleet
| Class | Photo | Type | Ships | Origin | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fleet Auxiliaries (18 in Service) | |||||
| Deepak class |  | Fleet Tanker | INS Deepak (A50) INS Shakti (A57) |  Italy | 27,500 tonnes |
| Jyoti class |  | Fleet Tanker | INS Jyoti (A58) |  Russia | 35,900 tonnes |
| Aditya class tanker |  | Fleet Tanker | INS Aditya (A59) |  India | 24,612 tonnes |
| Ambika class | Fleet Tanker | INS Ambika | India | Not accounted for by the IISS. May be decommissioned. | |
| Poshak class | Fleet Tanker | INS Palan INS Pushpa INS ??? INS ??? INS ??? INS ??? | |||
| Nicobar Class | Troops Transport | INS Nicobar INS Andamans |  Poland | converted merchant ship for troop ferry | |
| Torpedo Recovery Vessel | INS TRV-72 INS Astravahini | ||||
| Matanga Class | Ocean Tug | INS Matanga (A53) | India | Built by Garden Reach Shipyard | |
| Gaj Class | Ocean Tug | INS Gaj (???) | India | Built by Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL) | |
| Diving Support Vessel | INS Nireekshak (A15) | ||||
| Research and Survey Vessels (10 in Service) | |||||
| Sagardhwani | Research Vessel | INS Sagardhwani (A74) | |||
| Makar class | Survey Vessel | INS Mesh (J34) | India | ||
| Sandhayak Class |  | Survey Vessel | INS Sandhayak (J18) INS Nirdeshak (J19) INS Nirupak (J14) INS Investigator (J15) INS Jamuna (J16) INS Sutlej (J17) INS Darshak (J20) INS Sarvekshak (J22) | India | |
| Training Vessels (4 in Service) | |||||
 | Training Vessel | INS Tir (A86) | India | ||
 | Sail Training Vessels | INS Varuna INS Tarangini INS Sudarshini | India | ||
| Harbour Tug (14 in Service) | |||||
| Bhim Class | Harbour Tug | INS Bhim INS Balshil INS ??? INS ??? INS Ajral | India | ||
| Harbour Tug | INS ??? INS ??? INS ??? INS ??? INS ??? INS ??? INS ??? INS ??? INS ??? | ||||
| Miscellaneous Vessels (7 in Service) | |||||
| Yacht | INS Mhadei | India | Not accounted for by the IISS | ||
| Water Carrier | INS ??? INS ??? | ||||
 | Hospital Ship | INS Lakshadweep | India | Not accounted for by the IISS | |
| Diving Tender | INS ??? INS ??? INS ??? | ||||
recent
The Navy and Coast Guard have been asked by the Defense Ministry to complete
the first phase of the Coastal Radar Network (CRN) by October, 2012 to monitor
the movement of suspicious vessels in Indian waters. It aims to plug the loopholes
in country’s maritime security.
The CRN is a vital constituent of the coastal security mechanism which
will ensure monitoring and identification of maritime traffic.
Coast Guard Station Karaikal, was commissioned
Remote
Operating Stations of the Coastal Radar Network have been inaugurated?
Mumbai and Porbandar
India has recently joined the exclusive club of nations having
'nuclear-tipped submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs)' , also possessed by:
1.US 2.Russia 3.France 4.China
Indian Coast Guard Hovercraft H-187 Commissioned
Indian Coast Guard Hovercraft H-187 commissioned in the force. It is first of the series of 12 Air Cushion Vehicles
(ACVs) designed and built by Griffon Hoverwork Limited (GHL), UK.
Key Specifications of Hovercraft H-187 :
21meters long Air Cushion Vehicle
Displaces 31 tonnes
Maximum speed of 45 knots
Some of its key utilities:
Surveillance
Interdiction
Search and rescue
Providing assistance to small boats/craft in distress at sea.
Navy to commission hi-tech warship INS Teg in Russia
Armed with the surface-to-surface BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, a medium range gun and anti-submarine
rockets, guided missile frigate INS Teg will be commissioned into the Indian Navy today at the Yantar shipyard in
Russia.
INS Teg:
It is a modern warship with advanced technologies to make it stable, fast and stealthy.
The Teg class of ships have been built to meet specific Command and Control needs of Indian Navy for
coordinated surface, air and underwater missions.
Current Affairs Published on www.gktoday.in from January 1, 2012 to
September 10, 2012
INS Teg’s weapons suite includes surface-to-air and surface-to-surface missile systems, 100 mm medium range
gun, close-in weapon system, torpedo tubes and anti-submarine rockets. The BrahMos surface-to-surface missile
system is capable of engaging targets at extended ranges at supersonic speed.
The ship is also armed with an anti-submarine cum airborne early warning helicopter and its weapons suite and
sensors are fully integrated with latest Combat Management System (CMS).
N-Submarine INS Chakra inducted in Indian Navy
INS Chakra, the Nuclear powered attack submarine inducted in the Indian Navy. Defence Minister,
Mr. A.K. Antony held that with the increasing economic interests of India in the Indian ocean, Indian
Navy has to have a reliable existence and he also asserted that this is not aimed against any other
nation.
What is so special about induction of Nuclear Submarine INS Chakra in Indian Navy?
With this induction India has turned into a nuclear navy joining the elite club of P- 5 countries, the US, the UK, Russia,
France and Germany.
India successfully test-fired Prithvi-II ballistic missile from the
Integrated Test Range (ITR) in Chandipur of Balasore district, off
Odisha coast.
Prithvi-II missile
Surface to surface ballistic missile
Indigenously developed by DRDO
Variants: Prithvi-I for the Army; Prithvi-II for the Indian Air
Force; and the Dhanush for the Navy
Single-stage, Liquid-propelled
Advanced inertial navigation, control and guidance system
Payload capacity: 500-1,000 kg
Range: 350 km
“Coastal Radar Network” phase-I
The Navy and Coast Guard have been asked by the Defense Ministry to complete the first phase of the Coastal Radar
Network (CRN) by October, 2012 to monitor the movement of suspicious vessels in Indian waters. It aims to plug the
loopholes in country’s maritime security.
Current Affairs Published on www.gktoday.in from January 1, 2012 to
September 10, 2012
The CRN is a vital constituent of the coastal security mechanism which will ensure monitoring and
identification of maritime traffic.
MV Wisdom is re-floated securely
MV Wisdom: Ship which ran aground on Juhu beach on June11, 2011
Ship re-floated safely
Ship re-floated by SMIT International; a Singapore based Salvage
Company with the help of two powerful tugs
Ship successfully pulled out by the ship SMIT LUMBA, which is equipped with
adequate salvage equipment and manned by qualified and experienced
salvage personnel
Ship taken to Mumbai outer anchorage and thereafter the vessel to be ultimately towed to Alang-
Bhavnagar Gujarat for scrapping
INS TRISHUL BOUGHT BY 2003 IN INDIAN NAVY BUILT BY RUSSIA
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