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Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Last of Foxtrot submarines to retire on Dec 9

Foxtrot class (Project 641)The Foxtrot class of submarines, the first to have joined the Indian naval fleet, will bid adieu to the elite services after 36 years in service.

The last of the Indian Navy's Soviet-built Foxtrot submarines, with which the navy's submarine arm came into being, will retire on December 9, bringing an era to an end. With the decommissioning, the already dwindling submarine strength of the force would dip further.

INS Vagli, the oldest operational submarine of the Indian Navy, undertook its last dive on July 21 and is presently berthed at Visakhapatnam. The submarine will be decommissioned on Thursday, a day after the Indian Navy marks its Submarine Day.

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