Navy Day Features

  In an interview with Raksha Anirveda, India’s Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral R Hari Kumar, shed light on the Indian Navy’s various areas of focus such as plans for modernisation, acquisition of deck-based fighter...

  On the Navy Day, December 4, 2020, the then Navy Chief received a greeting from a foreign counterpart saying “Happy 49th Navy Day”. While well intended, it seemed to suggest that Indian Navy had...

  The Indian Navy Day – A Brief Background: Indian Navy Day is celebrated every year on December the 4th. This year will be no different as the guardian of Indian seas and the defenders...

  The Indian Navy, the maritime branch of the Indian Armed Forces is the sixth largest navy in the world. As a blue-water navy, it operates principally in the Persian Gulf Region, the Horn of...

  HENSOLDT Group’s core competence is to recognize threats and to protect End Users from them. We've been pursuing innovative ideas which translate into technologies for the protection of forces across the globe and into...

  In 1963, T.N. Kaul, India’s ambassador in Moscow, asked Russian Defence Minister Marshal Rodion Malinovsky what sort of defence preparedness India needed. The Indian Navy’s official history ‘Transition to Triumph’ records the Russian minister’s...

The global unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) market is predicted to reach around US$ 53 billion by 2030, while the Indian UAV market was projected to cross $900 million by the end of 2021.Most militaries...

  The year 2022 has been a significant year for the Indian Navy. The highlight of the year was the commissioning of the country’s first indigenously built aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, which showcased India’s technological...

  The Indo-Pacific has gained enormous political, strategic, and economic importance and has emerged as a prominent geostrategic landscape in recent years. The strength of the partnership for Indo-Pacific will be determined by the abilities...

‘Submarine life is not a service, but a religion’ - Igor Britanov, Captain of K-219, a Soviet submarine   Aircraft carriers and submarines are the owner’s pride, the neighbour’s envy. Both cost a pile and are...

  Over the past 75 years since Independence, India’s ‘Cinderella Service’ has emerged from its chrysalis, having pulled itself up by its bootstraps and gotten its act together a little better than its sister services....

  Glorious Legacy: The Indian Navy traces its glorious legacy to the 17th century when the great Maratha warrior Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj raised Maratha Navy as the naval wing of his armed forces, which first participated...

  In 1890 in his book The Influence of Sea Power upon History, Alfred T Mahan argued the importance of sea power and made deliberate attempts to advocate controlling the world sea-lanes. His dictum, ‘Whosoever...