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Indian Navy frees Iranian fishing vessel hijacked by pirates, rescues 23 Pakistani crew members
The Indian Navy has freed an Iranian fishing vessel that was hijacked by pirates and rescued its cr…
PTI
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Here’s a detailed recap of the Indian Navy's recent showdown with Somali Pirates
Since the past week, news headlines have been dominated by the Indian Navy's showdown with Somali P…
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IAF's C-17 aircraft executes precision airdrop in Arabian Sea, helps Navy seize hijacked vessel
A C-17 tactical transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) executed a precision airdrop of tw…
PTI
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India is shopping for submarines as China extends its reach into the Indian Ocean
The US has agreed to sell New Delhi surveillance drones that could be paired with the Poseidons and…
Christopher Woody
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Indian Ocean can’t be India’s backyard, says China
"I admit geographically speaking India has a special role to play in stabilising Indian Ocean a…
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The changing direction of India’s maritime strategy
Three points that highlight the change in India’s naval strategy are that for the first time, the I…
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Indian Navy's Blue Water journey: the road ahead
In the recent times India has built one of the largest and most powerful navies in the world with a…
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This Chinese Naval beauty is docked at Mumbai!
The People's Liberation Army Navy vessel will be leaving for Salalah in Oman on July 24. The arriva…
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US vs. Chinese replenishment ships: The workhorses that keep aircraft carriers operating
China is relatively new to replenishment ships and tends to build new vessels. The US Navy has 100 …
Benjamin Brimelow
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A bizarre comment stirred speculation India may try to match China's carrier fleet
India is building a 3rd aircraft carrier and the country's defense minister suggested that more may…
Michael Peck
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The Red Sea shipping crisis has given an unexpected country's elite commandos a chance to shine
Indian commandos played a key role in seizing back a cargo vessel that'd been hijacked by Somalian …
Tom Porter
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US Navy foils gunmen attempting to hijack an Israel-linked tanker off Yemen
A unidentified group of attackers seized the Israel-linked Central Park tanker that was sailing off…
Lloyd Lee
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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps gets powerful ships to confront adversaries well beyond the Persian Gulf
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) added missile corvettes and a mothership for specia…
Benjamin Brimelow
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A first-of-its-kind fighter jet landing shows India's big ambitions for its growing aircraft carrier fleet
India's navy just got its first domestically built aircraft carrier, and it plans to build more of …
Benjamin Brimelow
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Top US military commanders are worried about what China is up to around the world's most important waterways
US officials worry that China's presence around maritime chokepoints could be used to gather valuab…
Christopher Woody
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With a new carrier and rumors of more bases, a vision of China's global presence is getting clearer
Beijing is increasingly looking for facilities to support an overseas presence, and the US is worri…
Christopher Woody
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Despite rising tensions, US and Chinese troops worked together to put out a garbage dump fire, a top US general says
US and Chinese bases in Djibouti are just a few miles apart, and despite broader tensions, "we're c…
Christopher Woody
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India is beefing up its navy to counter China's increasingly powerful fleet
"For India, the concern now is that although it maintained this kind of regional hegemony by defaul…
Christopher Woody
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These maps show how devastating Somali pirates used to be
Piracy in the Western Indian Ocean had an economic cost of $7 billion in 2010, according to non-pro…
Gus Lubin
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How a war between North and South Korea could quickly become a naval showdown
South Korea's navy would have an edge in a conventional conflict, but North Korea's navy, especiall…