#印度一驱逐舰爆炸 #
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Remember the rhetoric of the Indian Navy? This includes "two-front operations" against China and Pakistan and the creation of a "world-class navy" comparable to China. However, the performance of the Indian Navy does not seem to be very good, and recently an Indian destroyer exploded again, which is said to be the second accident of the ship in 4 months, and the tragic situation at the scene is unbearable to look at.
(USS Ranville)
According to Russian media sources, this time the accident occurred by the Indian Navy's destroyer "Ranville", which was in the shipyard in Mumbai on January 18, and suddenly exploded, causing serious consequences of 3 deaths and 11 injuries. Reports indicate that the "Ranville" is currently conducting a cross-coastal deployment operation, and the ship is equipped with more than 300 crew members. Sources claim that it was not weapons and ammunition that caused the incident. This is the second accident of the "Ranville" since last year, last October, the ship appeared in the "Malabar" military exercise, and the military exercise was the United States, Japan, India and Australia together, which is considered to be the "show muscle" to China's action, but after the participation in the "Ranville" soon had a fire incident, and caused many injuries.
The "Ranville" is an old ship that has been in service since the 1980s, and some people may think that it is not surprising that such an old ship has an accident, but in the Indian Navy, any accident is possible. For example, India's recent high-profile use of the cutting-edge stealth destroyer "Visakhapatnam", known as India's new stealth warship, but the ship has also erupted in the dock fire, the specific time is 2019, when the accident also killed 1 person, which also led to the development of India's "P15B destroyer" Development progress delayed, until the end of October last year, the 7500 tons displacement of "Visakhapatnam" was officially put into service, and the Chinese Navy's 10,000-ton class 055 drive has been sailing far away.
(Visakhapatnam)
India also often has a variety of strange "basic exercise" incidents, the more famous is the "Sindulaksak" submarine incident in 2013, when it was said that the operator inside the submarine pressed the wrong equipment, resulting in the "club" missile in the boat self-detonation, and then created a miracle that the submarine sank itself with a missile, and it was also the first time that the submarine-launched missile sank the ship (itself). The submarine was salvaged from behind, and India invested $80 million to hope Russia would repair it, but after the failure, India angrily sunk it as a target in 2017.
(The scene of the explosion of the "Sindulaksak")
And in 2016, there was another incomprehensible accident at the Mumbai shipyard, when an Indian frigate "Beitwa" was undergoing maintenance in the dock, and the result is not known what the reason is, the ship flipped directly inside the shipyard, this rollover caused 2 deaths and 14 injuries, and may cause the battleship to suffer heavy damage, although India later announced the repair of the ship, but until 2021, it was found that the ship was still parked inside the shipyard, which means that India may not have successfully repaired it.
(Indian frigate that flattened the ship)
If you want to do something good, you must first use it, and India obviously does not play the basic skills well, but it has to beat the swollen face and fill the fat. And India always likes to compare with China, once it sees what China has, India feels that it must also have, and now India's goal is not only the "sea of stars", but "space in the universe". It is said that India is also going to emulate China in building a space station, and some Indian defense experts claim that according to "historical experience", China can do it, "India can do it". Optimism is certainly a good thing, but it is really not reassuring to be as joyful as India'.