The Indian Navy currently boasts 68 vessels and warships on order, together worth about Rs. 2 lakh crore, in line with India’s ongoing quest for building a more effective blue-water force to safeguard its geostrategic interests and counter China’s over-evolving footprint in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR).
The 132-warship Indian Navy, with its 143 aircraft as well as 130 helicopters, has the initial approval or “acceptance of necessity” (popular as AoN) for the following eight corvettes, nine...