{"id":2222,"date":"2009-07-31T12:19:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T20:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2009-07-31T11:31:06","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T19:31:06","slug":"india-and-pakistan-increasing-naval-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/prophecy\/india-and-pakistan-increasing-naval-power\/","title":{"rendered":"India and Pakistan Increasing Naval Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/india.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"174\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/cogwriter.htm\">COGwriter <\/a><\/p>\n<p>India announced plans to increase its naval power while Pakistan is buying naval ships from China:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><!-- BODY,.aolmailheader     {font-size:10pt; color:black; font-family:Arial;} a.aolmailheader:link    {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;} a.aolmailheader:visited {color:magenta; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;} a.aolmailheader:active  {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;} a.aolmailheader:hover   {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;} --><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">India plans to build 100  warships<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><strong>Financial Times<\/strong> &#8211; July 30,  2009<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">India has plans to add about 100 warships to its navy  over the next decade as it seeks to modernise its armed forces, and develop its  low-cost shipbuilding capabilities. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Captain Alok Bhatnagar, director of naval plans at  India\u2019s ministry of defence, said on Thursday that 32 warships and submarines  were under construction in the country\u2019s shipyards. Work on 75 more ships,  including aircraft carriers, destroyers, frigates and amphibious vessels, would  begin over 10 years. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">New Delhi is sensitive to lagging behind Beijing&#8217;s  naval might in the region. China has three times the number of combat vessels as  India and five times the personnel. Officials are wary of port developments in  neighbouring Pakistan and Sri Lanka that offer Chinese warships anchorages and  potentially greater control of the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">However, India has one of the fastest growing navies  in the world. Its fleet of about 120 vessels is the fifth largest&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Pakistan receives  Chinese frigates<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">China on Thursday formally handed over the first of  four new naval frigates built for Pakistan in a deal which highlights the close  ties between the armed forces of the two countries, <span><strong>writes Farhan Bokhari<\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">The launch of the new frigate is part of the F-22P  programme, estimated to be worth $700m (\u20ac497m, \u00a3424m), which includes the supply  of a batch of Chinese helicopters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">\u201cThe addition of these new ships will not only  strengthen the Pakistan navy fleet but will also [enhance] the country&#8217;s  shipbuilding capabilities,\u201d Pakistan&#8217;s navy said. <a title=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/16de2e94-7d22-11de-b8ee-00144feabdc0.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/16de2e94-7d22-11de-b8ee-00144feabdc0.html\">http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/16de2e94-7d22-11de-b8ee-00144feabdc0.html<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But as reported here recently (<a title=\"India &amp; Pakistan Lack Trust, But\u2026\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"\/news\/prophecy\/india-pakistan-lack-trust-but\/\">India &amp; Pakistan Lack Trust, But\u2026<\/a>), it is likely that in the future India, China, and Pakistan will cooperate, instead of compete, militarily.\u00a0 Larger navies would seem to likely facilitate the movement of the prophesied 200,000,000 man army that is mentioned in the Book of Revelation.<\/p>\n<p><em>Two articles of <\/em><em>possibly related interest may include<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/india.htm\">India, Its Biblical Past and Future: Any Witness?<\/a> The Bible discusses the origins of those of Indian heritage and discusses some of the witness to them (including those in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka).<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/china3.htm\">Asia in Prophecy<\/a> What is Ahead for Asia? Who are the \u201cKings of the East\u201d? What will happen to nearly all the Chinese, Russians, Indians, and others of Asia? Who has the 200,000,000 man army related to Armageddon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COGwriter India announced plans to increase its naval power while Pakistan is buying naval ships from China: India plans to build 100 warships Financial Times &#8211; July 30, 2009 India has plans to add about 100 warships to its navy over the next decade as it seeks to modernise its armed forces, and develop its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prophecy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2224,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions\/2224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}