The major combat units of the Indian Navy including the Carrier Battle Group with INS Vikramaditya, nuclear submarines and scores of other ships, submarines and aircraft swiftly transited from exercise to operational deployment mode as tensions between India and Pakistan escalated.
The INS Chakra nuclear submarine was deployed in operational role with the INS Vikramaditya aircraft carrier to tackle any situation’ with Pakistan in wake of the Pulwama attack on February 14.
India had deployed both its submarines during the crisis with Pakistan in their first ever deployment. The Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) sponsored terrorist attack on the CRPF convoy in Pulwama led to a rapid re-deployment of the Indian Navy for Operations in North Arabian Sea.
Admiral Sunil Lanba, chief of the Naval Staff will be in Kochi on Monday to preside over the debriefing of the largest War Game of the Indian Navy’ the Theatre Level Operational Readiness Exercise (TROPEX 19). The exercise had commenced January 7 and was planned to be terminated by March 10.
The major combat units of the Indian Navy including the Carrier Battle Group with INS Vikramaditya, nuclear submarines and scores of other ships, submarines and aircraft swiftly transited from exercise to operational deployment mode as tensions between India and Pakistan escalated.
The INS Chakra nuclear submarine was deployed in operational role with the INS Vikramaditya aircraft carrier to tackle any situation’ with Pakistan in wake of the Pulwama attack on February 14.
India had deployed both its submarines during the crisis with Pakistan in their first ever deployment. The Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) sponsored terrorist attack on the CRPF convoy in Pulwama led to a rapid re-deployment of the Indian Navy for Operations in North Arabian Sea.
Admiral Sunil Lanba, chief of the Naval Staff will be in Kochi on Monday to preside over the debriefing of the largest War Game of the Indian Navy’ the Theatre Level Operational Readiness Exercise (TROPEX 19). The exercise had commenced January 7 and was planned to be terminated by March 10.