- By KOL News , Written on November 19, 2008
Gulf of Aden, Wednesday 19 November 2008: Within days of preventing the hijack of an Indian merchant vessel, Indian Navy’s warship INS Tabar, after exchange of fire, sank a pirate vessel off the Somali coast.
According to reports, the Indian Navy acted definitively after a group of pirate vessels tried to encircle the Indian warship with the motive to attack it. After a brief exchange of light fire, the warship hit the pirate vessel leading to its sinking. The incident happened at around 9.45 pm Tuesday night. No casualities were reported from the Indian side.
The Indian warship, the INS Tabar, was dispatched to the Gulf of Aden in October after a spike in piracy and hijackings off the coast of Somalia, which is caught up in an Islamic insurgency and has had no functioning government since 1991.
It is the third of the Talwar-class frigates of the Indian Navy. INS Tabar is the first vessel in the Talwar class to be armed with supersonic BrahMos (PJ-10) Anti-ship cruise missiles. (Agency)
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Very well done, and safe return home.
John Chappell.
Customer Support Manager
Naval Aircraft Yard
Kochi
India
Well done. By joint patrolling under UN flag,
this menace should be stopped forever. Piracy
should be seen as an act of war and no mercy
need be shown to the pirates. The navy does not
have to be defensive. Any action against this
menace ought to be offensive, so that they will not dare to continue this robbery.
VERY GOOD,I FEEL A PERMINANT WAR SHIP IS DEPLOYED
IN THAT AREA ,WELL DONE
ROY JACOB
EX NAVY
I wonder why no concerted action has been taken so far that, over 60 ships have been hijacked for demanding ransom. It appears that nations have not taken this seriously.
A solution should also be found for the political situation in Somalia, a country without Govt since 1991. The poverty and unemployment among the people are what induces the people to undertake such criminal activities.