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Indian Navy sends P-8I aircraft in Hawaii for Exercise Rimpac

The Indian Navy has deployed a P-8I long-range maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine-warfare aircraft to Hawaii to take part in the Rim of the Pacific (Rimpac) 2026 exercise, the world’s largest multinational maritime exercise. Read More

What are INS Mahendragiri and INS Malvan? Indian Navy to commission two indigenous warships in July

Indian Navy to add INS Mahendragiri, INS Malvan in July

The stealth frigate INS Mahendragiri and the anti-submarine warfare vessel INS Malvan are set to join the fleet next month. It reinforces India’s push for maritime self-reliance as strategic competition intensifies in the Indian Ocean. Read More

Prime Minister Narendra Modi commissions three indigenous warships, INS Dunagiri, INS Sanshodhak and INS Agray in Kolkata

India commissions INS Dunagiri, INS Sanshodhak and INS Agray

The simultaneous induction of a stealth frigate, a survey vessel and an anti-submarine warfare craft, all designed and built in India, signals a decisive shift in the country’s defence manufacturing ambitions. Read More

Indian Navy defuses live missile warhead on oil tanker ‘Olympic Life’ near Kochi

Indian Navy defuses live missile warhead on oil tanker near Kochi

The Indian Navy’s EOD team successfully neutralized a live missile warhead found inside oil tanker MT Olympic Life off the Omani coast, preventing a major maritime disaster near Kochi. Read More

India shelves INS Baaz expansion, clears way for Galathea Bay airport

India has formally abandoned a five-year effort to expand the INS Baaz naval air station at Campbell Bay, clearing the path for a greenfield international airport at Galathea Bay in the Nicobar Islands. Read More

Meet Ghaziabad sisters Astha and Akanksha Tyagi commissioned as Indian Navy officers in consecutive years

Meet Ghaziabad sisters commissioned as Navy officers in consecutive years

Two sisters from Ghaziabad, Sub Lieutenant Astha Tyagi and Sub Lieutenant Akanksha Tyagi, have been commissioned into the Indian Navy in consecutive years through different cadres, becoming the first in their family to join the armed forces. Read More