Nice one, 61 less pirates on the open sea.
The Indian Navy scores big with this catch, and taking the rejects to Mumbai to be prosecuted even nicer.
Foxnews
The Indian navy captured 61 pirates who jumped into the Arabian Sea to flee a gunfight and fire on the hijacked ship from which they had staged several attacks, a navy statement said Monday.
Two Indian navy ships also rescued 13 crew members from the fishing boat Sunday night, nearly 695 miles (1,100 kilometers) off Kochi in southern India, the statement said.
The pirates had hijacked the Mozambique-flagged Vega 5 in December and had used it as a mother ship — a base from which they staged several attacks in the vast waters between East Africa and India.
A patrol aircraft spotted the mother ship Friday while responding to another vessel reporting a pirate attack, the Indian navy said. The pirates aborted the hijacking attempt and tried to escape in the mother ship.
When the Indian ships closed in Sunday night, the pirates fired on them. The hijacked vessel caught fire when the Indian navy returned fire, the navy said.
The pirates as well as the crew members jumped into the sea from the burning vessel, but were taken out by Indian sailors, the statement said.
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Monday, March 14, 2011
Indian navy captures 61 pirates in Arabian Sea
Friday, February 6, 2009
"Standoff" between Indian and Chinese ships off the coast of Somalia
Considering that just about every country in the world with a navy is sending ships to Somalia to battle islamic pirates, something like this was bound to happen. The incident doesn't seem to be so serious anyways. It appears the Indian submarine was just testing the defenses of the Chinese warships. Hindustan Times
An Indian submarine and two Chinese warships on an anti-piracy mission were recently locked in a tense standoff in the waters off Somalia, Chinese media reports said on Wednesday. The Indian Navy said none of its submarines were in the area.
In a rare reporting of the incident, Qingdao Chenbao, a Chinese daily, said the Indian submarine "stalked" the Chinese warships and they were "locked in a tense standoff for at least half an hour" after which the Indian submarine was forced to surface.
The submarine and the two warships were involved in several rounds of manoeuvring during which both sides evidently tried to test each other's sonar systems for weaknesses. The incident occurred Jan 15 in the waters near the Bab Al-Mandab Strait.
An Indian Navy spokesperson told IANS in New Delhi that "no Indian submarine surfaced in the area".
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Indian Navy Captures 23 Pirates in Gulf of Aden
Way to go Indian navy ! Now we wait and see if they are going to be held for a trial , or let go so they can continue playing "Pirates"
Epoch times....
NEW DELHI—Indian naval forces came to the rescue of a merchant vessel under attack by pirates in the Gulf of Aden on Saturday, capturing 23 of the raiders, India said.
India's INS Mysore and its armed helicopter were on anti-piracy patrol when they received a distress call from the Ethiopian-flagged MV Gibe saying two boats were closing in and firing, a Defence Ministry statement said.
"On sighting the helicopter and Mysore, the boats disengaged from MV Gibe and attempted escape. Mysore closed the vessels and ordered them to stop."
Indian commandos boarded the larger pirate boat, seizing 12 Somali and 11 Yemeni nationals as well as arms and equipment, the statement said.
A surge in piracy this year in the busy Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean off Somalia has driven up insurance costs, earned the gangs tens of millions of dollars in ransoms, and prompted foreign navies to rush to the area to protect shipping.
Several international naval operations are under way off Somalia, including a NATO anti-piracy mission.
The Indian Navy in November said it had sunk the Somali pirate "mother ship", though an anti-piracy watchdog later said the vessel was actually a Thai ship carrying fishing equipment that was being hijacked.
Somalia has seen continuous conflict since 1991 and its weak Western-backed government is still fighting Islamist insurgents.
The chaos has helped fuel the explosion in piracy. There have been nearly 100 attacks in Somali waters this year. Pirates holding about a dozen ships and nearly 300 crewmen in safe havens on the Somali coast.
Among the captured vessels are a Saudi supertanker loaded with $100 million of crude oil, the Sirius Star, and a Ukrainian cargo ship carrying some 30 Soviet-era tanks, the MV Faina.
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