INS tabar (F44)

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INS tabar
INS tabar
Overview
Type frigate
Shipyard

Baltysky Sawod / Baltic Shipyard, Saint Petersburg , Russia

Order November 1997
Keel laying May 26, 2000
Launch May 25, 2001
Commissioning July 31, 2004
Technical specifications
Dates See main article Talwar class

The INS Tabar (F44) is the third Talwar-class frigate of the Indian Navy . The Tabar , which has been in service with the Indian West Command of the Indian Navy since 2004, is based on the Soviet design of the Kriwak class from the 1960s, but has limited stealth properties thanks to its new superstructure .

history

The Tabar was with her two sister ships INS Trishul (F43) and INS Talwar (F40) 1997 by India in St. Petersburg Sankt Baltic shipyard for a total price for the three units of then converted 930 million USD ordered, and in May 2000 set to Kiel . The ship was named after a certain Indo-Persian battle ax , the Tabar Zin , two of these crossed axes represent the ship's coat of arms. During the construction there were considerable delays due to problems with the integration of various weapon systems and damage to the fuselage structure, so that she could not go on the transfer trip to India until April 2004, 13 months after the contractual goal. She reached Mumbai on July 31, 2004 .

In October 2008, the Tabar was ordered into the waters around the Horn of Africa to protect the ships using the trade routes there from attacks by Somali pirates . Since the beginning of November she has guided merchant ships through the Gulf of Aden , and on November 11, 2008, fended off two attacks. On November 19, about 530 km southwest of Salalah in Oman , the Tabar was shot at from a suspicious ship during an inspection on the high seas. The tabar returned fire, causing the other ship, known as the "pirate mothership", to catch fire and sank. Part of the crew of the other ship was arrested, while others escaped by means of two speedboats. The so-called "pirate mothership" later turned out to be a Thai fishing cutter hijacked by the pirates.

literature

  • All data without further mentioning from The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World , Naval Institute Press, 15th edition, 2007 ISBN 9781591149552 , p. 293ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Commissioning in India, start of the transfer trip under the Indian flag: April 19, 2004 (see PDF ( Memento of December 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive )).
  2. ^ " INS Tabar - The Indomitable Battle Ax ( Memento of December 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive )", press release of the Indian consulate in Sydney on the occasion of a visit to Tabar 2006.
  3. ^ MoD Reports - 2005 ( Memento of April 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) of the Indian Navy.
  4. ^ " Anti Piracy Action at High Seas ( Memento from December 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive )", press release of the Indian Navy from November 19, 2008.
  5. ↑ " India 'sinks Somali pirate ship' ", BBC report from November 19, 2008, as of 10:13.
  6. ^ RIA Novosti: Indian frigate INS Tabar accidentally sinks fishing cutter, November 25, 2008

Web links

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