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Friday, September 24, 2010

First Eastern Fleet warship sets sails to fight pirates

INS Rajput (Kashin II)INS Rajput, one of navy's oldest destroyers, today set sails for the Gulf of Aden to take over responsibility of anti-piracy operations there from INS Delhi.

This will be the first time in the past two years that a warship from the navy's Visakhapatnam-based Eastern Fleet will be deployed in the fight against the sea brigands in the Gulf of Aden.

Rajput, which underwent a major retrofitting of its sensors and weapons systems two years ago, will "take over on task" from Delhi, another guided missile destroyer, on September 26, a senior navy officer told PTI here.

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