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Adding to its growing naval might and blue water capabilities, India has inducted a new Russian-built multi-role stealth frigate that carries the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile into its fleet. INS Tarkash, handed over by Russia late last week, will join the Mumbai-based Western Fleet of the Indian Navy by the end of December this year.
Captain Antony George, an anti-submarine warfare specialist, will be its first commander. The new guided missile frigate was handed over to the Indian Navy by Russia's United Shipping Corporation at Kaliningrad in western Russia, where the Yantar Shipyard is located on the Baltic Sea.
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Following the establishment of the newly-elected Egyptian government, India and Egypt will soon carry out their debut joint military exercise in Alexandria. Indian Navy will be fronting warships of the Mumbai-based western fleet which will visit various countries after the Egyptian drill including Spain and France. As for the joint exercises, Indian warships will undertake a basic exercise with their Egyptian counterparts as part of the westward deployment of the naval fleet. Various destroyers under the command of Western Fleet commander Rear Admiral A R Karve will be deployed in the naval drill.
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Following the docking of four warships in Shanghai after a six year gap, Indian Navy is now preparing the departure of several other warships to cover the entire Indian Ocean Region. The Indian Navy is sending four warships on an overseas deployment to the Horn of Africa, Red Sea and the western Mediterranean to enhance its blue-water capability. Besides, Indian warships are also headed towards Seychelles, Mauritius and Maldives offering surveillance and anti-piracy patrolling.
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INS Tarkash, a modern frigate that Russia is building for the Indian Navy, has gone out of the Kaliningrad-based Yantar Shipyard for its sea trials ahead of its induction by the end of 2012. Tarkash is the second ship in the three-ship $1.6-billion order from India to Russia to build upgraded Talwar-class frigates. The first ship in this Talwar class follow-on order, INS Teg, was handed over to India in April this year. The third ship, INS Trikand, is at present under construction at the yard and is scheduled for delivery in mid-2013.
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India added muscle to its naval fleet by formally inducting INS Teg, a guided missile frigate, into service at an impressive ceremony at the Yantar shipyard in Russia's Kaliningrad yesterday. INS Teg, the first of the class to be fitted with BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles under the six Krivak-III Talwar class warships, was commissioned as an Indian naval ship by Vice Admiral KN Sushil, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, India's Southern Naval Command. INS Talwar, INS Trishul and INS Tabar, inducted between 2002 and 2003, do not carry BrahMos, but are equipped with the Klub cruise missiles.
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