– Eurasian Review – Pakistan’s view of India’s navy.

– Defense Technology International – The Indian navy aircraft carrier Vikramaditya is nearing completion at Russia’s Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk. Vice Admiral Nadel Niradjan Kumar, chief manager of production and purchase of warships for the Indian navy who inspected Sevmash this week, says the ship is 85% ready and will be handed over to the navy in December 2012.

– US Naval Institute Proceedings – Based on punitive offensive operations short of nuclear attack, India’s new doctrine against Pakistan flirts with Armageddon.

– Indian Navy – Indian navy seizes pirates’ Indian Ocean mothership – More than 20 pirates have been captured and some two dozen hostages rescued from a hijacked Thai fishing trawler in the Indian Ocean, the Indian defence ministry has said.

– Strategy Page – President Barack Obama’s looming post-election state visit to India is another indication of evolution and maturation — the incremental but genuine change measured in decades that marks the coalescing of U.S. and Indian global interests.

– Deccan Chronicle – The Indian Navy today enhanced its might on Goa shore with induction of two fast attack craft vessels.

– Times of India – Four Indian warships are being dispatched for a two-month-long overseas deployment along the African coast this week, which will culminate in complex trilateral wargames involving the Indian, Brazilian and South African Navies.

Associated Press – Russia leases nuclear sub to India

The Nerpa submarine manned by an Indian crew has sailed to India.

The Diplomat – India Readies for China Fight

For too long Delhi’s policymakers have watched idly as China’s military prowess has grown. Not anymore.

StrategyPage – Go For Gorshkov

An Indian inspection team has concluded that Russian efforts to refurbish the carrier Admiral Gorshkov, for Indian service, is on schedule. Nearly all the structural work is completed, and all the major mechanical items are installed. About half the cable (electrical and other conduits) work is complete. The Indian inspectors concluded that the ship should be ready for harbor trails by early next year. After that, the completed ship would be handed over to India in late 2012.

Defense Technology International –
Indian Navy Sail Ship Back After Solo Circumnavigation

NSV Mhadei returned to Mumbai harbor on May 22 after completing the first solo circumnavigation by an Indian of the Indian Navy.

UPI – India’s emerging maritime clout

The Indian Defense Ministry’s Sixth Land and Naval Defense Systems Exhibition held in New Delhi last month showcased newly inducted equipment by the country’s navy and army.

IANS – Aircraft carrier can’t be sold to India

The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk is not up for sale to the Indian Navy as it has already “outstretched” its life, a senior US Navy officer said Wednesday.

Defense Technology Interactive – Naval Gazing

Saab is revisiting its naval ambitions for the Gripen in the light of India’s release of a request for proposals for carrier fighter. The company first looked at a potential carrier derivative in the mid-1990s.

BBC – India to ‘fence’ naval harbours

India is planning to secure its naval harbours with electronic fences.

Press Trust of India – Navy ship thwarts pirate attack on US tanker in Gulf

An Indian Navy warship today successfully repulsed a pirate attack on a US-owned tanker in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia coast.

PTI – Russian shipyard launches Indian stealth frigates ‘Teg’

Russia’s defence shipyard “Yantar” has launched first of the three Indian stealth frigates – INS Teg (Sabre) – at a colourful ceremony in the Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad.

(Thanks to Harry for the link…)

Defense Technology International – What the Tourists in the Maldives Don’t Know

“Asia Sentinel” an independent website, reports that now India is preparing to reopen the former RAF base in the Maldives islands to surveillance aircraft, helicopters, and possibly ships, to monitor Chinese vessels in the Indian Ocean. Under a deal signed in August, India is also installing radar across the Maldives, linked to its coastal command.

Defense Technology International – Sea Trials For MiG-29K

The new MiG-29K carrier-based fighter started its sea trials on Russia’s only aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, on September 28-29. According to MiG, two aircraft – a MiG-29K single-seater and a two-seat MiG-29KUB – made several take-offs and landings from the carrier in the Barents Sea.

PTI – Navy grounds entire Sea Harrier jet fleet after recent crash

The Indian Navy has grounded the entire Sea Harrier fighter jet fleet against the backdrop of one of the aircraft crashing off Goa last week, rendering its lone aircraft carrier, INS Viraat, without its aerial firepower.

Reuters – Pakistan says Indian submarine harms regional peace

India’s launch of its first nuclear-powered submarine capable of carrying ballistic missiles is “detrimental to regional peace and stability,” Pakistan’s foreign ministry said, vowing to safeguard its own security.

Daily Telegraph – Warship sent to protect Seychelles from pirates

An Indian warship have been sent to protect the Seychelles from Somalian pirates who have attacked eight merchant vessels in the area in the last week.

Defense Tech – Indian-Russian Ties Are Chilling

Norman Polmar describes why the Indian Navy wants to do business with countries beyond Russia…

Defense Technology International – India Lays Keel of Its First Homemade Aircraft Carrier

India laid the keel of its first aircraft carrier on February 28. The ship will be named INS Vikrant, which, in Sanskrit, means “courageous” and “victorious”,

Seattle Post Intelligencer – Boeing wins first military contract with India

India becomes the first country outside the U.S. to purchase the P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft.