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Thursday, September 30, 2010

US senate approves sale of 2 Osprey-class minehunters to India

Osprey-class minehunterThe US Senate has cleared the sale of two Osprey-class minehunters to India, which would boost up Navy's efforts to ramp up coastal security post 26/11.

The sale of the Osprey-class warships, which are world's second largest minehunters was approved by the Senate, with India among the list of countries to which the sales could be made.

With this the decks have been cleared for the sale of two minehunters -- Kingfisher (MHC-56) and Cormorant (MHC-57) which were decommissioned in 2007.

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