A thread 🧵on the #Petyas of #IndianNavy.

There were 10 sister ships in the Petya class. INS Kamorta was the first ship to be commissioned on 21 Nov 1968 and then came Kadmatt, Katchal, Kavaratti and Kiltan in K group & Andaman, Androth, Arnala, Amini and Anjadwip in A group. Petyas were fitted with 4 anti submarine rocket launchers, each with 16 rocket barrels, 2 turret one on the fore castle and one on the aft. There were 3 torpedo launchers and provisions of depth charger in the aft.
A Sonar dome was fitted at the bottom of the ship for detection +

There lives a Saurashtra in Tamilnadu!

More than five thousand years ago, when Lord Krishna adorned the title of ‘Ranchhod’ and went to Saurashtra region of Gujarat to establish the Golden city of Dwarika. He was welcomed on the pious lands by its natives, the Saurahtrians & + Vaghers. They went on to become the most trusted disciples of the Vasudeva. The Saurashtrians had woven a piece of silk cloth which was presented to the Vasudeva Krishna after he defeated Narakasura and liberated 16100 women from Narakarura’s clutches.

What the fish!  
#UntoldStoryNavy by #MananBhatt 
#SubSunday #SubmarineDiaries
This one is from the time when, I was still wearing the navy blues. INS Shalki, Indian Navy’s Germen(HDW) Designed SSK class submarine was operating somewhere in the Arabian Sea on a regular patrol.+ They were sailing at cruising depth of around 40 meters below the surface of the sea.
At night, the sub’s sonar was picking up a lot of clutter. Captain passed orders: “Stop engines, bring the boat up to periscope depth, take a look around & get a visual confirmation on+

#UntoldStoryNavy by #MananBhatt of a fuelling operation gone wrong.
It was in the months of May-June 2005, #IndianNavy Ships Delhi, Trishul, Ganga and Fleet Tanker Aditya of the Western Fleet were on an Overseas Deployment (OSD) to the South Indian Ocean+

https://twitter.com/INPettyOfficer/status/1608498690343460865/video/1

They had visited Moroni (Comoros) Durban, Cape Town (South Africa), Port Victoria (Seychelles), Port Louis (Mauritius), Reunion (France).The fleet had their last exercise with the South African Navy off Cape Town. While on the way back to our Home Port, Mumbai, INS Trishul+

#UntoldStoriesArmy by #MananBhat #Hindi A 🧵
नब्बे के दशक की बात है..

जम्मू कश्मीर के शोपियां के पास एक गांव के पास महार रेजिमेंट की एक बटालियन तैनात थी। उन दिनों भी दुश्मन देश अफगानीयों को आतंकी तालीम दे कर हमारे यहाँ दहशतगर्दी फैलाने भेजता था ।
स्थानीय कश्मीरियों में + आतंकियों का काफी डर फैला हुआ था । भारतीय सेना से भागते फिर रहे इन दहशतगर्दों को आसरा न देने पर वे गाँवों में निर्दोषों की हत्याएं कर दिया करते थे । पलटन में उस दिन नायक जे एस जाडेजा गार्ड कमांडर ड्यूटी पर तैनात थे। सुबह के करीब तिन बजे होंगे । छावनी के मुख्य दरवाज़े पर तैनात +

It's #NavyDay today!! 🧵
Happy Navy day to those who served and those who are serving.
Navy is traditionally a mixture of extremes. It is the navy which won territories for the nations. Spain, England, Holland, Portugal, France and India were all successful colonial powers only+ because of their respective navies.
On the other hand, sailors - as against the navy - bring to mind fun and frolic. More than any group of people in the world, it is the sailors who are associated with deeds that usually gets shunted by the general conscience: +

#NavyDay2022
The first destroyer of India INS RAJPUT D141, an R class destroyer which was acquired in 1949 from Royal Navy (It also served in world war II as HMS Rotherham H09) During 1971 Indo Pak war Rajput was deployed in eastern coast to pretend as INS Vikrant to misguide + Pakistani Submarine PNS Ghazi to keep her away from INS Vikrant. This ploy eventually led to downing of Pakistan’s pride PNS Ghazi.
That time India had three destroyers in same R class Rajput, Rana and Ranjit. Old INS Rajput was decommissioned in 1976 #IndianNavy. #NavyDay2022

I pay homage to Hav Manubhai Bhaojabhai Dayattar of 11 Grenadiers who made supreme sacrifice at LAC on 29 Nov 22.
#RememberAndNeverForget🇮🇳🙏🏻💐
His mortal remains are being taken to Chichod Vill, Dhoraji, Dist Rajkot today at 7pm from RJT airport for last rites. Correction - He was posted at Drass.

The Kiss of Death

26 years have passed since the bizarre incident but it is still afresh in the memory. In the blistering heat of May 99, in the middle of Kargil War, Lance Dafedar Hari Ram of Indian Army’s Armoured Corps was forward deployed somewhere in d mighty Thar Desert+ Thar Desert of Rajasthan. Hari Ram’s Sentry duty was till 12 o’clock, midnight. Those days, every soldier in the Desert carried a Desi water bottle made of thick cotton cloth – locally known as “मशक”. It kept the water cool. As the Sun set, the desert began to cool, Hari Ram and+

रक्षा मंत्रालय की प्रेस रिलीज:
भारतीय सेना ने वीर नारियों के कल्याण और शिकायतों के निवारण के लिए "वीरांगना सेवा केंद्र" (वीएसके) नामक एकल खिड़की सुविधा शुरू की। VSK भारतीय सेना के वेटरन्स पोर्टल 
indianarmyveterans.gov.in 
पर सेवा के रूप में उपलब्ध होगा। + यह प्रणाली आवेदक को ट्रैकिंग, निगरानी और फीडबैक के साथ शिकायतें दर्ज करने की सुविधा प्रदान करती है। वीर नारियों / निकटतम परिजन के पास phone, SMS, POST, EMAIL और सहायता प्राप्त करने के लिए वॉक-इन के माध्यम से वीरांगना सेवा केंद्र से संपर्क करने के लिए कई साधन होंगे। +

INS Sindhurakshak in her prime.

Unfortunately, she went down on 14 August 2013 with 18 of her crew. 29/01/2013 Severodvinsk, Russia. INS Sindhurakshak

Let me narrate a true story: How the Life Savers called Military Doctors saves lives..
Dafedar Ram Lakhan from 41 Armoured Regiment (deployed in Rajasthan Desert) was bitten on shoulder by a highly vanomous Desert Krait Snake while sleeping in his tent in the wee hours of night.+ He was lucky as it was the time for sentry changing and two men proceeding to sentry post were awake and had torches with them. A panicky and worried Ram Lakhan informed them, "Mujhe kandhe pe kuchh kata hai."
The other Soldiers saw the bite marks, it was a definite snake bite.+

A hero emerges in INS #Andaman Tregedy:
Chief MA Bansode saved the lives of at least 40 Officers and Sailors, but, he himself lost the battle at last.
Here INS Cuddalore is receiving the mortal remains of Bansode sir.
#IndianNavy #Andaman + On 21 Aug 1990, INS Andaman sunk 150 nautical miles off Visakhapatnam, the navy suffered a weakening of its anti-submarine arm.
The tragedy unfolded on the evening of August 20 when the 950-tonne Andaman, and five other warships, including its sister ship Arnala, Himgiri +

How To Simulate Life In The Navy?
A thread:

1. Buy a steel container, paint it gray and then live in it for 6 months straight. 2. Run all of the piping and wiring in your house on the outside of the walls & Keep the bathroom valves hidden so that only Freshwater Tanky knows about them.

India-China Chumar Standoff 2014
It began on Aug 18, 2014 as China protested against build-up of an irrigation canal under MNREGA in Demchok. Chinese claimed the area to be theirs and protested. Pertinent to mention that China has built-up massive infrastructure in the region. + On Sept 08, 2014 Indian troops erected their observation hut on a hillock in Chumar. The post overlooked Chinese campsites & a dirt road up to the area. By Sept 09 around 500 PLA troops crossed into the area and built a 2 km road. By night, the Indian soldiers dug up the road.

Let's remember and pay homage to the 194 Braves of #INSKhukri
In December 1971, India and Pakistan were at war. The war was fought on two fronts; on the western front in the Arabian Sea and on the eastern front in the Bay of Bengal.

A #Thread on #Khukri On 9 December 1971, Khukri was sailing in the Arabian Sea off the Gujarat Coast in company with another warship INS Kirpan; also an antisubmarine warship. The two frigates were on antisubmarine duties. Pakistani submarines were suspected of having been deployed at Arabian sea.

#IndoChinaFaceoff #NationalSecurityScare #SmartPhones #Thread
Recent events have brought to the vanguard the susceptibility and threat vector smartphones present. In the recent past, we saw some very senior service officers getting caught in honey traps -- - through social media and the watchdogs caught unaware. The incidents came into light only after these culprits were already able to compromise our secrets. The quantum of leaked information has resulted in a major security headache for the Armed Forces.