Third Naval Base at Karwar

Issue: Book Excerpt: Transition to Guardianship: The Indian Navy 1991-2000 | Date: 26 March 2012

During the 1970s, the conceptual requirement for a ‘Third Naval Base’ on the West Coast, in addition to Bombay and Cochin, crystallised. The requirements were:

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Indian Coast Guard

Issue: Book Excerpt: Indian Armed Forces | Date: 08 March 2012

The deliberations, in the 1970s, of the United Nations Conferences on the Law of the Sea led to the establishment of India’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). 

On 25 August 1976, India passed the Maritime Zones Act which claimed...

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Indian Navy: Underwater Ranges

Issue: Book Excerpt: Transition to Guardianship: The Indian Navy 1991-2000 | Date: 24 March 2012

The simplest and economical way to incapacitate ships and submarines is to damage their underwater hull by use of explosives so that the hull gets flooded with seawater and it sinks. Two types of weapons can damage the underwater hull of a ship...

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Indian Navy: Anti Missile Defence Systems

Issue: Book Excerpt: Transition to Guardianship: The Indian Navy 1991-2000 | Date: 01 March 2012

In the 1971 Indo–Pakistan War, small 200 ton missile boats acquired from Russia attacked ships patrolling outside Karachi harbour. The radar homing heads of these liquid fuelled missiles successfully homed on, and, with two missiles, in...

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Combat capability of the Naval Air Arm

Issue: Book Excerpt: Transition to Guardianship: The Indian Navy 1991-2000 | Date: 14 February 2012

In the four decades since independence, the nation’s naval air arm had grown substantially to emerge as a prominent fighting force. By 1991, the combat capability of the Air Arm had leapfrogged from the primitive expertise of the 1950s to...

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Making of Indigenous Aircraft Carrier

Issue: Book Excerpt: Transition to Guardianship: The Indian Navy 1991-2000 | Date: 09 February 2012

The project for an Indigenous Aircraft Carrier took shape in 1979. Under the terms of the Indo–French MOU of 1988, an agreement was signed with DCN of France for assistance by its design group, STCAN, in the concept design of the Sea...

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The Emerging Role of the Indian Navy in the New World Order II

Issue: Book Excerpt: Transition to Guardianship: The Indian Navy 1991-2000 | Date: 12 April 2011

Operation Tasha: The Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) was inducted in Sri Lanka in July 1987, as per the Indo–Sri Lanka Accord, to end the ethnic struggle that claimed many lives and ruined the country’s economy. Operation Pawan...

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The Emerging Role of the Indian Navy in the New World Order I

Issue: Book Excerpt: Transition to Guardianship: The Indian Navy 1991-2000 | Date: 11 April 2011

India’s role in the world order has been gradually expanding. From its fledging origins in the early-50s, to the exalted perch at which it finds itself now, there has been a virtual inversion of maritime status and power equations....

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External Naval presence in Indian Ocean

Issue: Book Excerpt: Transition to Guardianship: The Indian Navy 1991-2000 | Date: 16 February 2012

Sea Lines of Communications (SLOCs) in the Indian Ocean, came into prominence in the 90s when forces of globalisation sparked a process of huge economic growth that resulted in increased consumption and competitive trade, creating an upsurge in...

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1971 War: Sinking of the KHUKRI

Issue: Book Excerpt: Transition to Triumph | Date: 01 December 2011

"The Story of the Pakistan Navy" has recounted the events as seen from the submarine HANGAR which sank the KHUKRI.

HANGAR had sailed from Karachi on 22 November for a patrol off the Saurashtra coast. On 1 December, she was...

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