The Indian Navy has released the crest of the its squadron of MiG-29 aircraft.
Tag: Indian Navy
Coastal security: Navy’s report card
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The Indian Navy says it has increased surveillance patrols, joint coastal security exercises and operations and training of personnel.
Crests of the new Indian frigates
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The Indian Navy has released the crests of the three new Talwar class frigates being built in Russia. The Teg, Tarkash and the Trikand are Project 1135.6 modified Krivak III class guided missile frigates.
Blog: China on my mind
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StratPost’s Saurabh Joshi tries to analyze the fortnight-long controversy over intrusions by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army across the Line of Actual Control into India and the larger environment between the two countries from which this flare-up has arisen.
India’s security interest in the Maldives
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The proximity of the country to the Indian island cluster of Lakshadweep makes it important for coastal security. The Maldives can also offer India logistics support and extend the Indian naval footprint and significantly, by offering their facilities, can extend the Indian maritime airspace surveillance capability.
India-China military gap ‘too wide to bridge’: Navy chief
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Admiral Sureesh Mehta, while dismissing the idea of matching China militarily, ‘force for force’, saying the gap was ‘too wide to bridge’, called for ‘harnessing modern technology for developing high situational awareness and creating a reliable stand-off deterrent’ keeping in mind China’s space weapons and cyber warfare capability. At the same time he called for engagement as ‘cooperation with China was preferable to competition or conflict’.
Navy Chief calls for building Indian cyber-war capacity
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The Indian Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Sureesh Mehta has called for leveraging Indian strengths in Information Technology in the building of Indian cyber warfare capabilities, pointing at the increasing threat perception of cyber attacks.
Indian Navy returns from European exercises
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Four ships of the Indian Navy that had been deployed for exercises in European waters since May, have returned home. This was the first time the joint Indo-British naval exercise Konkan and the joint Indo-French naval exercise Varuna have been conducted outside Indian waters. Images inside.
Indian, French navies rescue Indian dhow from pirates
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The INS Godavari and the French warship Aconit have rescued an Indian dhow with a crew of 14 Indians after it was hijacked by pirates off Boosaaso in Somali last Friday. Pirates had attempted to use the dhow, the MV Nafeya, crewed by 14 Indians, as a mother-ship for hijacking the VLCC size Liberian tanker MVA Elephant.
Naval presentation on India’s boomer
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This presentation was made last year by the Indian Navy and the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) to the National Security Advisory Board and the Ministry of Defense, and is published on StratPost courtesy of Shiv Aroor of Headlines Today.
The opposition to a CDS
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The issue of the creation of a Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) for the Indian armed forces is one who’s fate has been the hostage of usually reluctant government discussions and opposition from various quarters. StratPost analyzes this opposition to a CDS that has so far precluded jointsmanship and strategic planning.
Being gay still a crime in the military
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While the Delhi High Court’s unprecedented judgment, striking down the applicability of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) in the case of consenting adults, essentially decriminalizes homosexuality, the Indian armed forces will still consider it a punishable offense.
Images: Indian Navy in the Mediterranean
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The Indian Navy on deployment in the Mediterranean Sea.
Indian Navy on extensive western deployment
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A squadron of four ships is on an extensive tour of ports in the Arabian Sea, Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic Ocean, North Sea and the Baltic Sea. The ships will also conduct major exercises with Russia, the UK and France.
Images: Pirates attacking MV Maude
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Source: Indian Navy
