Indian Navy - The Future Looks Bright!!

It is the most POWERFUL navy in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR)........

It is one of the very few Navies in operating TWO CARRIER BATTLE GROUPS (CBGs).........

It is the FIFTH largest Navy in the world........

But.....

           That's NOT ENOUGH!!!

You have to constantly keep growing & expanding your areas of "INFLUENCE" if your end goal is to become a Global SUPERPOWER!!!

Well, as the things stand, Indian Navy is well on course....

If it's induction plans are analyzed then probably by 2025-30 time-frame, Indian Navy will be a force that no country can afford to IGNORE.

& Here goes the Shopping List.....

• PROJECT 75 - Six Scorpene class Submarines at around $2 billions (all to be inducted by 2020).
• PROJECT 75I - Six conventional Submarines of a different class at $10 BILLIONS!! Soon the tender will be floated (all to be inducted by 2025/27).
• LEASE OF SECOND AKULA NUCLEAR SUBMARINE! from Russia costing close to $1 billion (Probable date - 2018).
• THREE ARIHANT CLASS NUCLEAR SUBMARINES at $9 billions (by 2025).

• SIX NUCLEAR POWERED ATTACK SUBMARINES (SSN) at $15 billions (by 2030).
• Under PROJECT 17A, seven stealth frigates to be inducted at around $8 BILLIONS! (by 2025).
• PROJECT 28A - four anti-submarine corvette at around $1.5 billions (all by 2020).
• PROJECT 15A - three stealth destroyers at around $4 billions (by 2020).
• PROJECT 15B - follow-up of 15A with four stealth destroyers at around $5 billions (by 2023-25).
• INS VIKRANT & INS VISHAL aircraft carriers at around $9 billions by 2027.
• 65 TEJAS FIGHTERS - By 2023 ($3 billions).
• 150 Naval Utility Helicopters + 139 Naval Multi-Role Helicopters + 8 MRMR aircraft + 12 P-8Is MMA = $17 billions (by 2027).
• About six LANDING PLATFORM DOCKS (LPD) at $3-4 billions (by 2027).

So, in the next 10-15 years, the Indian Navy will spend around $90-100 BILLIONS!! to increase it's numbers & to add more & more lethal power.

The list just don't end at warships & aircraft, Indian Navy is also constructing important naval bases of great strategic value to complement it's warships..

                                                    Be it the largest Naval Base of Asia at Karwar

                                                                                                        or 

                                                  Nuclear Submarine base at Rambili,

Indian Navy is letting no stone unturned to transform itself from a powerful Navy to Unchallenged Navy!

For Indian Navy ---> Man + Machine + Bases = A GREAT future!

******HJ******