JOINT EXERCISES – Quad Navies Hold 24th Malabar Exercise
After a gap of 13 years, India, US, Australia and Japan conducted their first joint naval drill, called Malabar exercise, from 3 November. It...
Indian Navy’s Exercises with Singaporean, Thai and Sri Lankan Navies
Trilateral Maritime Exercise SITMEX-20
Indian Navy (IN) Ships including indigenously built ASW corvette Kamorta and missile corvette Karmuk participated in the 2nd edition of India,...
NAVY MODERNISATION – Navy Receives New P-8I Surveillance Aircraft
The Indian Navy, on 18 November, received the first of the four new P-8I long-range maritime patrol aircraft, at the naval airbase in Goa,...
NAVY MODERNISATION – Sea Guardian UAVs Leased by the Navy
The Indian Navy has inducted two MQ-9B Sea Guardian unarmed drones procured from the U.S. on lease for one year. All planning, execution and...
NAVY MODERNISATION – Vagir Sub Launched; ASW Corvette Commissioned
Indian Navy's fifth Scorpene-class submarine Vagir, having superior stealth features like the advanced acoustic absorption technique, was launched on 12 November at the Mazagon...
Review of Indian Navy’s Modernisation
The Indian Navy faced a number of challenges during 2020. It undertook its largest ever non-combatant evacuation under Operation Samudra Setu, wherein, nearly 4000...
NAVY MODERNISATION: Indian Navy to Get More P-8Is Surveillance Aircraft
Boost to Indian surveillance and anti-submarine capabilities
The Navy had inducted eight Boeing-manufactured P-8I multi-role aircraft maritime surveillance aircraft under a $2.1 billion deal inked...
DEFENCE RESEARCH: SMART Can Engage Submarines at Longer Ranges
The Supersonic Missile Assisted Release Torpedo (SMART) was successfully test fired for the first time on October 5 from the APJ Abdul Kalam Island...
NAVY MODERNISATION: Six P-75I Conventional Submarines to be Built
Subs Bidding Process Starts 6 October
India is all set to launch the bidding process through a Request for Proposals (RFP), in October, for a...
Rethink Over Third Aircraft Carrier
The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Bipin Rawat, who has been tasked to prioritise military procurement, said, on 17 February, that the cost could...
















