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Showing posts with label FOXTROT CLASS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FOXTROT CLASS. Show all posts

Jun 24, 2010

La Armada India retira submarinos con 40 años de antigüedad/ Indian navy to decommission 40-year-old submarines

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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