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Индийский "Тарантул" погиб в столкновении
Странно, но вроде бы об этом в отечественной прессе почти не сообщалось (как и о столкновении фрегата "Trishul" c судном "Ambuja Laxmi" у Мумбая 27 декабря).
В общем, в ночь с 21 на 22 апреля с.г. индийский ракетный катер K 98 "Prahar" пр. 1241РЭ (лицензионной постройки, в строю с 1997 г.) погиб в результате столкновения с индийским же контейнеровозом "Rajiv Gandhi" (21963 брт) в 19 милях от Гоа. Все 73 члена экипажа (что там делало так много народу?? - штатный экипаж 41 чел) спасены.
По предварительным данным расследования, столкновение произошло при скандальных обстоятельствах и при совершенно курьезном рас..ве на индийском РКА. Камандира катера на мостике не было и такое ощущение, что вахту вообще никто не нес (!). Контейнеровоз протаранил катер, зацепил его за ПУ ПКР и 10 минут на скорости 16 уз тащил борт о борт, пока на катере не догадались, что происходит что-то неладное (!). На самом контейнеровозе вообще ничего не заметили и остановили машины только тогда, когда один из офицеров РКА вскарабкался на борт судна и прибежал на его мостик.
Статейка из газеты "The Indian Express" с изложением подробностей:
‘Prahar bridge unmanned at time of collision’
Thursday, April 27
Lt Cdr Yogesh Tripathi, the commanding officer of Naval missile corvette INS Prahar which sank off the Goa coast after a collision with SCI-owned merchant vessel Rajiv Gandhi last Friday, is under the scanner for indiscipline and dereliction of duty.
Though investigations by the Board of Inquiry (BoI) ordered by Western Naval Command are still at a preliminary stage, it’s learnt there’s prima facie
evidence that there may have been no command on the warship’s bridge at the time of the collision, implying gross violation of set rules.
The inquiry into this alleged lapse comes just three months after another Naval officer, Commander Sunil David, was made to relinquish command of stealth frigate INS Trishul which collided with a merchant vessel Ambuja Laxmi outside the Mumbai harbour on December 27 last year. The inquiry into that incident is still not formally over.
Officially, the Navy has said that only exhaustive investigations will allow the BoI to draw conclusions into the Prahar’s sinking, as detailed provisions of international rules of the road will need to be invoked to pin-point the cause.
For now, the Navy has rejected the SCI’s unofficial opinion that the Naval ship did not follow navigational rules to avoid a collision in open sea. The Navy has also dismissed the idea that its navigational training needs to be revamped, and indicated that such incidents have happened with other Navies as well.
Though all 73 personnel on board the warship were rescued, its sinking has caused concern in the Navy. Consider the following:
• The 56 m-long INS Prahar (Veer-class pennant number K98, 22 Sqn) was dragged for over 10 minutes by MV Rajiv Gandhi before the collision was even noticed by the personnel on board the warship.
• There was no recorded malfunction of the ship’s modified Russian Garpun BEL-E surface radar. This is principally why the BoI feels there was absence of command on the bridge.
• One of Prahar’s missile tubes (it is equipped with P-20s and Strela-2Ms) got stuck in the merchant vessel’s hull, which is why it was dragged.
• The merchant ship, moving at about 16 knots switched off its engines only after an officer from Prahar, who first noticed the collision, clambered onto the Rajiv Gandhi, proceeded to the ship’s bridge and informed them of what was happening below.
• Most officers and sailors on Prahar embarked the merchant vessel, while others got into lifeboats after which a search operation was initiated by six Naval vessels, two Coast Guard ships, passing merchant vessels, one Dornier-228 aircraft and two Chetak helicopters.
С уважением, Exeter