A People’s Liberation Army Navy surface action group is continuing its circumnavigation of Japan ahead of the annual G-7 summit later this month in Hiroshima. The surface action group – which includes cruiser CNS Lhasa (102), destroyer CNS Guiyang (119), frigate CNS Zaozhuang (542) and fleet oiler CNS Taihu (889) – was sighted at midnight on […]
Nanggala lost contact shortly after the Indonesian Navy gave it permission to dive at 3:00 a.m. The
Nanggala was in the Bali Strait, a narrow waterway between the islands of Java and Bali. Here’s the Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) notifying civilian aviators of the torpedo exercise: This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.
Aerial searchers discovered an oil slick on the ocean in the vicinity of the sub’s last known location at 7 a.m. on Wednesday.
An Indonesian Submarine Is Missing With 53 People Aboard Kyle Mizokami
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Search-and-rescue teams spotted an oil slick in the area where the sub went missing.
The search is on for a missing Indonesian Navy submarine, which the service declared overdue after it failed to check in following a torpedo-launching exercise on Wednesday.
The sub, KRI
Nanggala-402, last appeared off the island of Bali in the Bali Sea and reportedly has 53 sailors aboard. An international force of rescue ships and aircraft are converging on the island, and U.S. Navy submarine rescue units could also arrive at the scene.
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Nanggala lost contact shortly after the Indonesian Navy gave it permission to dive at 3:00 a.m. The
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Indonesian Attack Submarine Missing After Participating in Exercise Near Bali
KRI Nanggala (402) in 2015. US Navy Photo
Indonesia submarine KRI
Nanggala (402) went missing on Wednesday after it failed to report in while undertaking a simulated torpedo firing in preparation for a live firing later this week.
The Chief of the Indonesian Armed Forces, Air Chief Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto, told various international and Indonesian media outlets that contact with the submarine was lost at 0300 Indonesian time when it was 60 miles north of Bali. He stated that the submarine had received clearance to dive and then immediately lost contact.
Tjahjanto also stated he was heading to Bali and would conduct a press conference there on Thursday morning Indonesian time.