The Indian Navy will be hosting its largest-ever multilateral exercise – “Milan – 2024” – from February 19 to February 27. The 12th edition of exercise, will be hosted by the Visakhapatnam-headquartered Eastern Naval Command in the Bay of Bengal. Read More

This comes at a time when the Houthi rebels in Yemen banned on all Israel-linked ships sailing in the Red Sea and Somali pirates hijacked a cargo ship near the Gulf of Aden. Read More

The Indian Navy said its “mission deployed” platforms responded to a distress call sent by a Malta-flagged vessel, MV Ruen, in the Arabian Sea. The Navy, suspecting a piracy attempt, said it diverted a maritime patrol aircraft and a warship on anti-piracy patrol in the region towards the ship. Read More

Indian Navy’s corvette INS Kadmatt INS Kadmatt, which is currently on a long-range operational deployment in the West Philippine Sea, undertook a maritime partnership exercise with BRP Ramon Alcaraz of the Philippine Navy in the disputed South China Sea. Read More

Lockheed Martin said it has delivered the sixth MH-60R “Romeo” helicopter to the Indian Navy. The US-based defence behemoth also said it expects to complete the delivery of all the MH-60R choppers that India ordered by 2025. Read More

The Indian Navy formally recommissioned INS Tarmugli, a refurbished 22-year-old fast-attack craft with a unique history spanning two nations and three names, at the naval dockyard in Visakhapatnam. Vice Admiral Sandeep Naithani, the Navy’s chief of materiel, was the chief guest of the event. Read More

Amid tension between the Philippines and China in the South China sea, Indian Navy’s corvette INS Kadmatt arrived at Manila. The INS warship’s port call to the capital of the Philippines is a part of the Navy’s ongoing long-range operational deployment. Read More

During his Navy Day speech, PM Narendra Modi announced that Indian Navy’s ranks will be renamed to junk “slave mentality” and bring them in alignment with Indian tradition. Read More

The country is celebrating the Indian Navy Day on Monday, December 4. Learn about why Navy Day is celebrated on December 4 every year. Read More

In a watershed in India’s maritime history, a woman officer has been appointed the commanding officer of a warship, Navy chief Admiral R Hari Kumar has said on Friday. Read More