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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 ...
The Indian Navy is the maritime branch of the ... Kumar Behera MCPO I as the first Navy MCPO on 1 May 2022. [148 ... in unison during Exercise Tropex 2025.
Agnipath Scheme [1] (also spelled Agneepath Scheme) (Hindi: Agnīpath Yojanā, transl. Agnipath [Fireway] Scheme) is a tour of duty style scheme approved by the Government of India on 14 June 2022 and implemented in the country a few months later in September 2022, for recruitment of soldiers below the rank of commissioned officers into the three services of the armed forces. [2]
Indian Navy Marcos during Op Demo 2025 Indian Navy Marcos during exercise RIMPAC 2024 MARCOS performing a simulated Visit, board, search, and seizure (VBSS) exercise aboard MV Ocean Valor at RIMPAC 2022. MARCOS boarding an Iranian flagged vessel FV Omari held captive by Somali pirates.
INS Vikrant was delivered to the Indian Navy on 28 July 2022. [4] Prime Minister Narendra Modi commissioned INS Vikrant on 2 September 2022 in a grand ceremony at Cochin Shipyard . [ 28 ] [ 102 ] Flight trials of its aircraft complement are expected to be completed by mid-2023, after which the ship will be fully operational.
As of December 2024, the report of the Technical Oversight Committee of the Indian Navy is expected to be submitted by the end of January 2025. [ 81 ] However, another report highlighted that the project could be delayed by over a year as a local competitor has raised "half-dozens of objections" as to whether proper procedures were followed ...
According to the Chief of the Naval Staff's statement in December 2020, [2] India has transformed from a buyer's navy to a builder's navy. [3] As of September 2024, the Indian Navy has 66 ships on order of which 50 are under construction in various stages (early fabrication to sea trials) and 12 ships are to be delivered and commissioned over ...
INS Surat is the fourth ship of the Visakhapatnam-class stealth guided-missile destroyers of the Indian Navy.The ship is not only the last of the Visakhapatnam-class destroyers (P-15B) but also the last of the entire line of destroyers built under the classification of Project 15 which also includes the Delhi-class (P-15) and the Kolkata-class destroyer (P-15A).