India Flexes Muscle in Red Sea, Sends Ten Warships to Deter Houthis

John Hayward | Breitbart — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 21:23:20 +0000

India declined to join President Joe Biden’s “Operation Prosperity Guardian” security initiative for the Red Sea, but senior Indian Navy officials said they had dispatched ten warships on Monday to deter the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen and other pirates.

“Indian warships are deployed all over the region to enhance surveillance and deterrence against the twin threats from pirates and drone strikes. The aim is to help stabilize the situation in the Arabian Sea and promote net maritime security,” an Indian naval officer told the Times of India (TOI) on Monday.

TOI reported India has dispatched three more guided-missile destroyers plus two frigates to join the INS Chennai, the guided-missile destroyer that foiled a hijacking attempt by pirates off the coast of Somalia on Thursday. The Indian Navy said the incident, combined with a hijacking and drone attack in December, made it clear that threats were moving closer to India’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).

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Source: https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/01/09/india-flexes-muscle-in-red-sea-sends-ten-warships-to-deter-houthis/

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INS Vikrant: Inside India’s newly-commissioned aircraft carrier

BBC News — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 21:13:22 +0000

India has commissioned its first indigenously-built aircraft carrier, Vikrant, at a ceremony in the southern state of Kerala. The BBC’s Jugal Purohit took a tour of the vessel ahead of its induction into the Indian navy.

On Friday morning, the 45,000-tonne Vikrant got the prefix INS (Indian Naval Ship) at a formal commissioning ceremony, attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

It is a moment that was 13 years in the making.

The vessel – 262m (860ft) long and almost 60m (197ft) tall – is the first aircraft carrier India has designed and built on its own. It has the capacity to hold 30 fighter planes and helicopters.

Mr Modi called the carrier “a floating city” and the “symbol of indigenous potential”.

“With INS Vikrant, India has joined the list of countries which manufacture huge aircraft carriers with indigenous technology. It has filled the country with a new confidence,” he said at the commissioning ceremony.

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Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-62749345

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India Flexes Muscle in Red Sea, Sends Ten Warships to Deter Houthis

INS Vikrant: Inside India’s newly-commissioned aircraft carrier

India has commissioned its first indigenously-built aircraft carrier, Vikrant, at a ceremony in the southern state of Kerala. The BBC’s Jugal Purohit took a tour of the vessel ahead of its induction into the Indian navy.