Los recortes en la Armada India llegan a los últimos submarinos clase Foxtrot, recibidos hace unos 40 años. El INS Vela, será retirado el 25 de junio de 2010, y el INS Vagli se retirará a finales de año, y son probablemente los submarinos mas antiguos en servicio. El Vela y el Vagli son parte de la segunda tanda de submarinos comprados a la Unión Soviética en los últimos años 60.
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Curtains are being drawn on the last of Navy’s Soviet-era Foxtrot submarines, were commissioned around 40 years ago.
At a ceremony in Vishakhaptnam on Friday, INS Vela, one of the last two Foxtrots left, would be de-commissioned. These were probably the oldest submarines in active service anywhere in the world. The last one - Vagli - is also on its final leg and would be removed from the naval fleet later this year.
Vela and Vagli are also known as the V-class are part of second batch of eight Foxtrots bought by India from the Soviet Union in the late 1960s. The V-class had slightly superior sensors than the first four - the K-class Kurusura, Karanj, Khanderi and Kalvari.
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