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India's navy mulls buying warships from abroad

April 27, 2004

AFP, NEW DELHI: India's naval chief Madhavendra Singh said Sunday the navy was mulling plans to buy warships from abroad...

Indian Navy inducts fast attack craft

April 19, 2004

PTI, Chennai, April 19. (PTI): Regarded as the fastest surface ship, a T-84 fast attack craft, was today inducted to...

Indian, French Navies To Hold Biggest Ever Exercise

April 6, 2004

AFP, The Indian and French navies will hold their biggest ever joint exercise off the coast of Goa starting April...

Royal Saudi Navy Takes Delivery of Frigate

April 6, 2004

DefenseNews, The Royal Saudi Navy took delivery April 3 of the Mecca, a French-built Lafayette S-3000-class frigate, according to a...

Submarine telecom network to link SE Asia, the Middle East and Europe

March 29, 2004

AFP, SINGAPORE: Sixteen global telecommunications carriers will build a new 500-million-US-dollar submarine cable network to boost high-tech communications between Southeast...

Russia's navy to hold joint exercises with Italy in September

March 29, 2004

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Japan welcomes US Aegis missile system deployment off its shores

March 23, 2004

AFP, TOKYO: The Japanese government on Tuesday welcomed a US plan to deploy a destroyer equipped with the high-tech Aegis...

Russia's top nuclear ship called to port amid safety concerns

March 23, 2004

AFP, MOSCOW: The anguished state of Russia's navy came under the spotlight for the second time in a month Tuesday...

Russia test-fires ICBMs after two failures

March 17, 2004

AFP, MOSCOW: Russia's navy Wednesday successfully fired two test inter-continental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) one month after aborting two attempts during...