An Indian Navy Offshore Patrol Vessel (NOPV), INS Sunayna, was flagged off from Karwar naval base on a mission of multinational cooperation on April 5 by Defense Minister Rajnath Singh. INS Sunayna has been renamed Indian Ocean Ship (IOS) Sagar — an acronym for Security and Growth for All in theContinue Reading
India’s maritime aspirations have long revolved around the dream of a blue water navy – one capable of projecting power far from its shores. But as geopolitical realities shift in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR), it is time for New Delhi to rethink the very definition of “blue water” inContinue Reading
On a single day in January this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi commissioned into the Indian Navy three indigenously built capital warships: a destroyer, a frigate, and a submarine. Soon after, another Krivak III-type frigate, built in Russia for India, joined the Indian Navy’s western fleet. While that is aContinue Reading
