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Indian Sub Set to Resume Operations After Russian Refit
The Indian Navy has 15 conventional diesel-electric submarines, including seven Russian kilo-class ships. The navy is facing many challenges in shoring up its underwater capabilities amid the burgeoning power of competitors in the Indian Ocean.
India’s diesel-electric INS Sindhuratna submarine will resume services from next March-April after the Russian Zvyozdochka shipyard completed the refit cum life certification of it, a Defense Ministry document has revealed.

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Besides enhancing the combat potential of the underwater vessel, the service life of the submarine was also extended by ten years to 35 following the repairs and upgrades. Now, the submarine is fitted with a Klub (Kalibr) land attack cruise missile.

The Indian Navy has planned to bring the submarine from Zvyozdochka Shipyard in Severodvinsk to Mumbai by next March using a sealift vessel.

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"Sea transportation of a kilo-class submarine from Severodvinsk, Russia, to Mumbai on a transport dock ship during the time period early Jan 23 to mid Feb 23," the navy document read.
INS Sindhuratna is one of four kilo-class boats selected for medium refit under a $700 million deal signed between Zvezdochka and the Indian Navy in 2018.

basilico:


How is this not a war crimes

Israel vs Egypt. Israel warned Egypt it would bomb Aswan dam if Egypt threatened Israel existence.Flood waters would wipe out many downstream including Cairo.

Civilian targets that result in mass casualties are a no go zone. You can't bomb an ammonia plant and remain in good world standing. You can't bomb a nuclear reactor that's up and running. You can't detonate a nuclear device on the shores to cause a massive tsunami too.

Gtovr:

The repairs and upgrades of the INS Sindhuratna were completed amid the pandemic and the Ukrainian crisis.

The Indian Navy has seven kilo-class boats after it lost one, INS Sindhurakshak, to a massive explosion in the dock in August 2013 and decommissioned INS Sindhudhvaj in July this year.

Gtovr:
The next update is very interesting!

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43 Years Under Sanctions: How Iran Built Drones

stanluiz:
My blame goes to Putin.

Look at the war crimes Ukranazis are committing yet Putin is treating them with kids glove.

Gtovr:
43 Years Under Sanctions: How Iran Built Drones

Although Iran has survived under sanctions for nearly half a century, the country has shown a remarkable ability to produce, reverse engineer, and develop its own unmanned aerial vehicles.

I'll brb, I'm embarking on a short isolation

Gtovr:

Iran became interested in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones for short, in the 1980s during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988). The first family of Iranian drones was the Ababil, which were simple mechanisms called “flying munitions.” Together with reconnaissance UAVs developed somewhat later, they were successfully used on the battle fronts.

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In the post-war period, Tehran decided to concentrate its efforts on the creation and development of unmanned aerial systems. The Iranian aviation industry included several scientific and technical organizations, a number of aircraft construction and aircraft repair plants, as well as numerous related enterprises producing various components. 

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Virtually all the enterprises in this industry, which are supervised by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), are in one way or another involved in the development and production of UAVs.

Iran then started the mass production of drones, which could compensate for the insufficient capacity of Iran's Air Force, including the inability to build fully-fledged combat aircraft.

Gtovr:

Iran has made significant progress in the development and production of a full range of UAVs of all major classes, from light tactical reconnaissance vehicles to heavy reconnaissance and strike systems, both carrying guided aerial bombs and short-range missiles, and barraging munitions, the so-called kamikaze drones.

Gtovr:

Such progress is based on several fundamentals: scientific and technical cooperation, primarily with China; the use of technologies and components for their own production, obtained officially, semi-officially or unofficially (intelligence); and the acquisition of real samples of American and Israeli drones for the purpose of deep study and possible reverse engineering.

Gtovr:

Such progress is based on several fundamentals: scientific and technical cooperation, primarily with China; the use of technologies and components for their own production, obtained officially, semi-officially or unofficially (intelligence); and the acquisition of real samples of American and Israeli drones for the purpose of deep study and possible reverse engineering.

Gtovr:

Iran has so far produced about 40 models of various drones. The main families (lines) of Iranian UAVs are Ababil, Kaman, Kian, Mohajer, and Shahed.
According to experts, Iran's most effective and powerful drones are represented by the Shahed, Mohajer, Kaman, and Kian families.

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President Putin fires rifle on visit to mobilized troops (VIDEO)
https://www.rt.com/russia/565060-putin-visits-mobilized-troops/

Gtovr:

Shahed 129

This drone is considered one of the most capable UAVs in Iran's arsenal. Visually, it strongly resembles the US RQ-1 / MQ-1 Predator. It made its first flight in the spring of 2012.
Purpose - reconnaissance and aerial target strikes (since 2016)

Flight time - 24 hours

Range - 1,700 km

Combat power - 4 Sadid-345 precision-guided munitions, 400 kg payload

Features: This drone is a full piston aircraft with 16 wings and is a replica of the Israeli Elbit Hermes 450 UAV that crashed in Iran. According to other reports, it is a copy of the US Predator UAV and the Chinese Wing Loong II.

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UK claims Russia fired missile near its spy plane

Updates pending.

Gtovr:

British reconnaissance aircraft are now flying with fighter jet escorts, Defence Minister reveals.

A Russian Su-27 fighter jet fired a missile near a British Boeing RC-135 reconnaissance plane over international waters in the Black Sea, Defense Minister Ben Wallace told the UK's Parliament on Thursday.

Gtovr:

According to Wallace, the incident was accidental and Moscow blamed it on a technical malfunction. He added that London had accepted this explanation.

The run-in between the spy plane and the fighter jet occurred on September 29. Following the incident, London temporarily suspended patrols and expressed concerns to Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu, Wallace noted. 

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“A reply by the Russian Minister of Defense on the 10th of October, stated that they have conducted an investigation into the circumstances of the incident and stated it was a technical malfunction of the Su-27 fighter,” he revealed, adding that Moscow “acknowledged that the incident took place in international airspace.”

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British spy planes are now flying with fighter jet escorts to provide them with better security, the minister noted.

So far, Russia has remained silent on the alleged run-in and has not produced any public statements on the incident.

In 2021, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, the number of reconnaissance flights staged by NATO in the Black Sea Region increased by more than 60% compared to 2020.

Gtovr:

Shahed 129

This drone is considered one of the most capable UAVs in Iran's arsenal. Visually, it strongly resembles the US RQ-1 / MQ-1 Predator. It made its first flight in the spring of 2012.
Purpose - reconnaissance and aerial target strikes (since 2016)

Flight time - 24 hours

Range - 1,700 km

Combat power - 4 Sadid-345 precision-guided munitions, 400 kg payload

Features: This drone is a full piston aircraft with 16 wings and is a replica of the Israeli Elbit Hermes 450 UAV that crashed in Iran. According to other reports, it is a copy of the US Predator UAV and the Chinese Wing Loong II.

Gtovr:

43 Years Under Sanctions: How Iran Built Drones (contd)

Shahed 136

Iran's most effective kamikaze drone, first introduced in 2020
Purpose - striking ground targets from the air

Speed - approximately 180 km/h.

Flight time - 10 - 12 hours

Range - 2,000 km (declared by the manufacturers), but according to US experts, its real range is several hundred kilometers

Combat power - 40-50 kg of explosives