Divers are amongst the most elite of all sailors and soldiers. A tough selection process and tougher day to day environment? Which are the different diving units in India?
[01] Unsurprisingly the Indian Navy has the largest, most experienced and well equipped diving cadre in the country. Navy divers are also the talent pool for MARCOS special forces.
I like to follow-up and catalogue topics of my interest in twitter threads. So just to keep them all easily accessible, I am creating a thread of all my threads! 🙏
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A track of Indian Coast Guard's force levels / fleet
Indian Navy and Indian Coast Guard are the top naval forces of the country. But there are other smaller marine/coastal security forces guarding our waters. Lets look at some of them.
Customs is a central govt organisation and operates a large fleet of patrol vessels and motorboats. Interestingly, customs preventive officers wear a white uniform patterned on the Navy.
There is evidence that Indian Navy is following a dissuasive strategy against PLAN in IOR, while forward deploying itself into the South China Sea.
@arzandc #MissionBasedDeployments #IndianNavy
Indian Navy's response to Chinese aggression on LAC was called Operation Ajinkya - revealed in the book "A Decade of Transformation: The Indian Navy 2011-2021"
Shipping Highways of the World
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India's Areas of Maritime Interest
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Indian Ocean Chokepoints
#IndianNavy #MissionBasedDeployment #IndoPacific
Lets track some of the #MissionBasedDeployment. INS Vela - one of the Kalvari class SSKs (Project-75/ Scorpene) did one deployment in her first ever operational tour. One that lasted over 8 months.