Former Navy Chief Admiral L Ramdas writes down why it is necessary for the government to work on INS Viraat lying decomissioned in Mumbai and not play politics over it.
As Pakistan Day approaches, this could be a general security arrangement in our part of the seas. Or, it could be a deployment based on specific intel inputs, including possibly of 'samundari jihad'.
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China has always seen these exercises as attempts to confine it.
Governments may come or go, but the armed forces will always remain.
This is the first of six indigenous Scorpene submarines which will join the fleet by 2020.
India has closely followed the development of France’s new attack submarine for over a decade owing to its potential to transform the navy’s submarine arm.
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Both likeminded nations should keep in mind China’s assault on maritime security and freedom of navigation in the Indo-Pacific region.
While unmanned aerial vehicles can plug some of the gaps in the maritime patrol role, they can’t kill submarines.
It is crushingly embarrassing for the Navy to face the ignominy of a 4,000-ton warship turning turtle in a dry dock.
It will ensure Vietnamese People’s Navy can inflict heavy losses on a maritime aggressor.
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