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Lethe

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They would be better off developing their own AIP for Kalvari as originally planned.

The indigenous AIP project continues. A contract was signed
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with MDL for manufacture and integration of the DRDO AIP plug, and a further contract was signed last month between MDL and Naval Group for assistance in the integration process.

In other Navy news, India will shortly hold a joint commissioning ceremony for two Project 17A frigates, INS Himgiri and INS Udaygiri. These will be the fourth and fifth major surface combatants to be commissioned into the Indian Navy this year. Needless to say, the PR machine has been in
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Lethe

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The second and third Project 17A frigates, INS Himgiri and INS Udaygiri, were commissioned at Visakhapatnam earlier today in the rain. The Indian Navy now has thirteen destroyers and sixteen frigates in service, excluding INS Brahmaputra which is currently
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. Four more P17A frigates and two more Talwar-class frigates will join the Navy in the next few years, while three Rajput-class destroyers are likely to exit in the same timeframe.

Tacit admission that Indian strategy vis-a-vis Pakistan is not going to be based on re-gaining air superiority, but instead to focus on missile attacks, whether from land or from sea. Pakistan is also much weaker at sea than in the air, so I suspect India will try to involve the naval domain much more in the next round of hostilities.

It's been a good few months for the European defence industry. India is rapidly emerging as a major customer.

The Project 75I submarine contract has been kicking around for
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, including activity in the months prior to recent hostilities. Not everything is about Operation Sindoor and the lessons India did or didn't take from that experience.
 
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Deino

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Guys, let’s take it simple: this thread is a News thread solely related for Kndian Military News!

No postilical BS is allowed, no country bashing, no penis-contest posts of what Pakistani systems might be better or whatever and if you cannot stick to the topic and these simple rules, be prepared for a longer vacation!
 

Gloire_bb

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That discussion is thankfully gone, but i guess contextual picture is useful just to give forum members sense of ranges involved.
Pakistani navy, at current strength, can more or less:

-help deter close blockade or outright tactical landings (though in this role it's deeply secondary to PAF)
-provide close escort to traffic from the gulf, likely relying on benovelent neutrality from Iran. This is literally Pakistan's lifeline.

When submarine order will come, there will be merit in attempting some offensive ambushing off Indian coast, but even that is in the future. Maybe USVs can be used to gain cheap offensive capability from this geography(like Ukraine), but unlike Russia, India shouldn't have any problems with detecting and engaging small moving targets in any weather conditions.
Preventing traffic to India is basically impossible, and the only hope here really is islamic solidarity. But that won't do anything to even Russian tankers coming through red sea, and India has eastern coast.

Anything else is ... sea denial capabiliity is tied to a very modest fleet of submarines(5, of which 3 are adequate), plus PAF aircraft. These aircraft are indeed a very powerful capability, but they lack reach due to limitations of available aircraft - and as you can see, outer player can just choose range. They have absolute freedom of maneuver.
India faces none of that - their navy is big and largely modern(including MPA part), essentially none of their strike(maritime or not) aircraft face range problems, and they aren't squeezed into that triangle in the first place.
 
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