Kautilya

The mammoth dock will facilitate the much needed underwater repairs quickly and efficiently. Touted as the ‘edifice of modern India’ by the Indian Navy, the gigantic dry dock has been constructed over 40 lakh man days. According to a video released by the Navy, the megastructure has been constructed using 80,000 metric tons of steel — equivalent to that used to build the Eiffel tower.

India has “forward deployed” some warships, submarines, maritime patrol aircraft and fighter jets to keep track of a major naval exercise by Pakistan in the north Arabian Sea Top defence establishment sources on Wednesday said “close tabs” are being kept on the unfolding Pakistani exercise, with the Indian armed forces also being kept operationally ready “to prevent any misadventure” by the neighbouring country during it.

During the nine-day exercise, the three navies will conduct complex maritime operations in the surface, sub-surface and air domains with a particular focus on anti-submarine warfare, officials said. A significant number of aircraft, naval ships and submarines of the three navies will be part of the annual exercise, considered a major war game in the region.

India has fully paid for the Project 11356 missile frigates, which Russia’s Yantar Shipyard in the Kaliningrad Region is building for the Indian Navy, President of the United Shipbuilding Corporation Alexei Rakhmanov told reporters on Tuesday. Russia and India signed contracts in November 2018 on the delivery of four Project 11356 frigates. Under the deal, two frigates will be built at Russia’s Yantar Shipyard on the Baltic coast (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) and the other two will be constructed at India’s Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL).