According to a report from the ITAR-TASS news agency this week, Admiralty Shipyards Director-General Alexandre Bouzakov said that “The date of the start of construction of two [Project 636] submarines to… [Algeria] has been fixed, the contract is underway.” Interfax went on to say that the new submarines will be delivered by 2018 with a contract valued at more than $1.2 billion. […]
The complex salvage operation to extricate unexploded missiles and torpedoes from INS Sindhurakshak is now finally beginning, six months after the 3,000-tonne submarine sank due to internal explosions that killed three officers and 15 sailors at the Mumbai naval dockyard, reports Times of India. Defence ministry sources on 12FEB14 said the almost Rs 240 crore salvage […]
Satellite imagery acquired by Digital Globe on 14 August 2013 shows the return of Algeria’s Kilo submarine from the nearby floating dry dock, confirming the completion of routine maintenance noted in imagery from 31 January 2013. The submarine relocated to its regular deployment position shown above. Algeria’s Kilo are deployed to Mers-El-Kevir, Algeria’s second military region naval […]
Although Iran’s Veleyat 91 naval war games have come and gone, recent statements and historical satellite imagery continue to reiterate Iran’s long term goal of projecting substantial force into the Sea of Oman. Almost every year commercial satellite imagery has shown the Ghadir coastal submarines mobilizing at Bander Abbas for the Velayat naval war games. […]
Years of civil war have severely affected Algeria’s Navy leaving it underfunded. The last naval modernization program was in the 1980s, which means many of its ships are ageing. In recent years, one of the cheaper buys to upgrade naval capability has been submarines. In 2010, Russia delivered two additional Kilo Type 636 submarines to the Algerian Navy, […]
