SP's Naval Forces Dec 2011
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December 2011-January 2012 Volume 6 No 6 `100.00 (India-based Buyer only) SP’s AN SP GUIDE PUBLICATION TREASURE inDiAn nAvY SpeCiAl /6<:, Turn to page 16 www.spsnavalforces.net ROUnDUp PAGe 4 Force for Good the Indian Navy must take baby steps to provide safety of the sLocs, provide extended sAr and HAND operations, at least across the entire North Indian ocean, as a regional commitment and to signal affirmation of delivering on commitments of an emerging power Commodore (Retd) Sujeet Samaddar PAGe 6 Minister of Defence India and Israel Boost Naval Ties India I am glad to know that SP Guide Publications, New Delhi is bringing out special editions separately for Indian Air Force, Indian Navy and Indian Army. Since Shri Sukhdeo Prasad Baranwal founded SP Guide Publications in 1964, it has come a long way in publishing monthly journals and magazines of repute on defence and strategic matters. In this context, its flagship publication SP’s Military Yearbook deserves a special mention. I send my best wishes for the successful publication of these special editions on Indian Armed Forces. India shares some common strategic and security threats with Israel and its desire to A.K. Antony get closer to the Us has also helped in mov - ing the ties forward. lt General (Retd) naresh Chand PAGe 10 cover story All-weather Long-range Detection & Tracking the Indian Navy has issued a request for infor - mation for induction of state-of-the-art tech - nology ‘3D c/D band’ air surveillance radar for ships, which are 3,000 tonnes and above. the War Without Rules PhotograPh: US Navy radar is required to detect aircraft, helicopters and sea-skimming missiles including auto - matic tracking in three dimensions. lt General (Retd) naresh Chand PAGe 12 Making a Difference resource allocation and funding support seems to be the least of the problems of IcG. What however remains the major challenge, if not a bottleneck, are the elephantine acquisi - tion procedures and processes contributing to the delays. Guided missile destroyer USS Cole (DDG 67) prepares Rear Admiral (Retd) Sushil Ramsay to moor pierside during homecoming celebrations, at the conclusion of their deployment in support of the global war of terrorism (GWOT). Cole was attacked by PLUS terrorists on October 12, 2000, in Aden, Yemen. Be-200 Under a lucky Star 9 First / TecKnow 13 There is a very thin line between asymmetrical warfare and terrorism. India has been news in Brief 14 calling it low-intensity conflict when used against military targets and terrorism where civilians have been targeted. 6/2011 1 cover story l Terrorism has come to stay as a tool of warfare in Mumbai thus an exposure on maritime terrorism and Indian Navy’s requirement of multi-function globally and India has suffered it for many as the lead article is a reminder of the urgency of radars. We wrap up this issue with the usual A decades. The Western powers were not con - expediting the implementation of the countermea - News Digest and wish you readers a very Happy i vinced till it reached their doorsteps especially sures as early as possible. This issue coincides Navy Day and New Year. With this issue, SP’s after 9/11 and now new weapons, force structure with the Navy Day and thus it is appropriate that Naval Forces has completed six successful years R and tactics are being designed. Maritime terrorism an article on the Indian Navy’s rich heritage and which was only possible with the active coopera - is relatively a new phenomenon and not as its future force architecture is included in which tion and good wishes of the Indian Navy and you O omnipresent as the threat from land due to the the author reiterates its glorious past and sug - readers. Happy reading! special training and equipment required for it. gests a blueprint for the future to match with the T India is very vulnerable to maritime terrorism as it national aspirations. He emphasises that the has a 7,516-km-long coastline, spread across acquisition plans must achieve risk reduction by i nine Indian states and four union territories. It also creating a balanced force that offsets any regional has a total of 1,197 islands up to a stretch of 2,094 inequities, maintains credible capability and com - D km additional border or coastline. There are about mensurate with India’s growing status as a e 12 major ports through which 71 per cent of the responsible maritime power. Indo-Israel defence maritime traffic passes. There are also about 199 ties have become very strong and are only going non-major ports. The total trade handled by the forward in terms of volume of trade and joint ven - Jayant Baranwa L 6Th AnniveRSARY major ports was 530.8 million tonnes in 2008-09. tures and so an overview on it. This issue gives Publisher & Editor-in-Chief iSSUe Threat from the sea has already shown its fangs you an exposure on Indian Coast Guard Aviation n LT GENERAL (RETD) NARESH CHAND Maritime Terrorism During the same year, he planned to attack Al-Nashiri is currently on trial before a Maritime terrorism has been defined by the a US vessel using a boat full of explosives. military tribunal in Guantanamo on charges S Per The UNITeD Nations Council for Security Cooperation in the Al-Nashiri was then tasked by Laden to that carry the death penalty. Al-Nashiri Conference on Trade and Devel - Asia-Pacific working as an “undertaking of attack the US or Western oil tankers off the based his maritime terrorist tactics on the opment, more than 80 per cent terrorist acts and activities within the mar - coast of Yemen. As he found difficulty in following: of international trade in goods itime environment, using or against vessels finding targets along the western coast of l Using a zodiac speed boat packed with is carried by sea and more than or fixed platforms at sea or in port, or Yemen, his operations were shifted to the explosives to ram warships or other Aone-third of the seaborne merchandise is against any one of their passengers or per - port of Aden to target the US navy vessels. ships made up of crude oil and petroleum prod - sonnel, against coastal facilities or settle - The average refuelling stop of a US military l Using medium sized boats as bombs to ucts. By the beginning of 2010, the total ments, including tourist resorts, port areas vessel in the port of Aden was just less than be blown up near slips or ports world merchant fleet had expanded to reach and port towns or cities”. four hours. Al-Nashiri appreciated that for l having underwater demolition teams 1.276 billion deadweight tonnes. There are The above does not define the terrorist the operation to be successful, reliable and about 46,000 ships touching 4,000 ports and act and is silent on the inclusion of military timely intelligence was the key. Thus he set An Ode to USS Cole there are more than 15 million containers in vessels and infrastructure. It should actually up a network of informers who were work - Celebrating the bombing of the USS Cole dur - use. Add to this the military navies of the include all civil as well as military vessels ing in the Port of Aden or along the red Sea. ing his son’s wedding in January 2001, world moving on the high seas or berthed at and maritime infrastructure, and all mar - his first attempt on USS The Sullivans Osama bin Laden recited the following poem: ports and you have thousands of maritime itime means that are used in transportation failed, as the boat carrying the explosives targets for terrorists to bomb, extort, or of personnel and resources that are used for sank due to overload. The next attempt was “A destroyer: even the brave fear it’s might blackmail to achieve their goals. promoting terrorism. Maritime terrorism on USS Cole on October 12, 2000, which It inspires horror in the harbour and in the like any other terrorism is motivated for was making a routine refuelling halt at open sea Terrorism achieving political goals beyond the imme - Aden. The attack was carried out by two She sails into the waves flanked by “By indirection find directions out.” diate act of attacking a maritime target. Saudi suicide terrorists, hassan al Khamri arrogance, haughtiness and false power —William Shakespeare Although piracy is defined in Article 101 of and Ibrahim al-Thawar who exploded a To her doom she moves slowly The above quote from Hamlet has many the 1982 United Nations Convention on the small craft alongside the USS Cole with 270 A dinghy awaits her, riding the waves” interpretations including “one can adopt an Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), it can still be used kg of C-4 explosives killing 17 US sailors indirect approach to arrive at a desired as a tool of terrorism to finance the terror - and injuring 37. This success brought him Tactics : The example of USS Cole has result”. Some security analysts believe that ism organisation, disrupt lanes of communi - fame and respect within Al-Qaeda, and Al- shown that a terrorist organisation with rel - asymmetrical warfare is fought between cations to disrupt trade, coercion and black Nashiri became the chief of operations for atively small amounts of funds (estimated groups, countries or other entities, in an mail. Maritime terrorism requires special the Arabian Peninsula. he then planned the about $40,000 in this case) can cause very environment of combat power mismatch skills in seaman ship, acquiring of special attack on the French oil tanker VLCC MV heavy material damage.