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The Indian Navy (IN), which is the naval warfare branch of the Indian Armed Forces, has approximately 135+ warships on active commission. [1]By forethought, the IN's Maritime Capability Perspective Plan (MCPP) for the period 2012-2027 had set the objective of the service becoming a 200-ship fleet by 2035; however, that number has since been reduced to 175 in December 2019 - principally owing ...
Originally commissioned as HMIS (His Majesty's Indian Ship) Delhi: C74 Leander class: 5 July 1948 30 June 1978 [2] Scrapped Purchased from the U.K. Formerly HMS Achilles of the Battle of the River Plate fame. Turrets on Display at Devonport Naval Base, Auckland, New Zealand, and at Indian Military Academy, Dehradun, India. INS Mysore: C60 Fiji ...
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The fleet of the Indian Navy is a mixture of domestic built and foreign vessels, as of May 2023, the surface fleet comprises 2 aircraft carriers, [172] [173] 1 amphibious transport dock, [174] 7 landing ship tanks, [174] [175] 13 destroyers, [172] 13 frigates, [176] [177] 20 corvettes, [176] [178] [179] [180] 10 large offshore patrol vessels ...
The division of the ships was on the basis of two-thirds of the fleet to India, one third to Pakistan. [3] This was then called the Indian Fleet. After her commissioning in 1948, HMIS Delhi (later called INS Delhi) became the Flagship of the Indian Fleet. The Fleet commander was styled as Flag Officer Commanding Indian Fleet (FOCIF).
An Indian frigate, INS Khukri was sunk by submarine PNS Hangor. On the eastern front, the submarine PNS Ghazi was sunk outside Vishakhapatnam harbour. Indian naval aircraft, Sea Hawks and Alizés, from the aircraft carrier INS Vikrant were instrumental in sinking many gunboats and merchant navy vessels in the Bay of Bengal.
The President of India as the Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces reviews the Indian fleet as Head of the Republic. Since India became a Republic in 1950, 12 fleet reviews have taken place. The President's fleet review could also include warships and delegates from other national navies. Of the 12, two were International fleet reviews ...
The increasing interest of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy in the Indian Ocean region [8] has led the Indian Navy to invest more in anti-submarine ships, such as the Kamorta-class corvette, long-range maritime reconnaissance aircraft such as the Boeing P-8 Poseidon and ships such as the Saryu-class patrol vessel [9] and unmanned ...