The list of deployments of the Indian Navy from 2013.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Indian Navy's deployments outside the Indian Ocean were largely limited to delivery of new vessels. Over years, the Indian leadership looked at the Navy as an effective tool for foreign policy and this was reflected in the pattern of Indian navy deployments. The Indian Navy hosted its first International Fleet Review in February 2001. This event was termed "Bridges of Friendship" and was attended by 24 warships form 19 countries. An office dedicated to international co-operation was created in 2005. This term has been used by the Navy since then to undertake humanitarian and security missions by engaging with nations primarily in the Indian Ocean littoral region and South-east Asia. These engagements include mutual port visits, international forums and joint naval exercises.[1] [2] [3] [4]
In late 2017, the Indian Navy adopted a new plan for deployment of warships which was aimed to counter the increasing presence of Chinese presence in the Indian Ocean. Under the new plan, 14–15 mission ready warships are deployed across multiple regions including the Malacca Strait and Andaman Sea; North Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal (Bangladesh and Myanmar), Lakshadweep islands and Maldives; Madagascar; the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea.[5]
Year | List of countries visited | Number of countries visited | |
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2013 | Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, Oman, | 9 | |
2014 | Indonesia, China, United States, Australia, Philippines, Russia, Japan, Maldives, Kenya, South Africa, France, Mauritius, Seychelles, Mozambique, Madagascar | 15 | |
2015 | Sri Lanka, Spain, Indonesia, Egypt, France, United Kingdom, United States, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, Cambodia, Thailand, Seychelles, Iran, UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, South Korea, Vietnam, Djibouti, Malta, Philippines, Israel, Turkey, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Portugal | 31 | |
2016 | Bangladesh, Brunei, Fiji, Indonesia, Kuwait, Kenya, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mozambique, New Zealand, South Africa, Russia, South Korea, Japan, Mauritius, Madagascar, Micronesia, Qatar, Sri Lanka, Seychelles, Singapore, Thailand, Tanzania, Oman, Philippines, UAE, United States, Vietnam | 29 | |
2017 | UAE, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Greece, France, United Kingdom, Egypt, Indonesia, Israel, Singapore, Malaysia, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Angola, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Namibia, South Africa, China, Oman, Vietnam, Philippines, Japan, Maldives, Russia, Tanzania. Thailand, Cambodia, Brunei, New Zealand, Spain | 36 | |
2018 | Falkland Islands (UK) and United Kingdom, Thailand, Seychelles, South Africa, Mauritius, Qatar, UAE, Tanzania, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Reunion Islands (France) and France, Maldives, Comoros, Malaysia, Madagascar, Vietnam, Malta, Portugal, Yemen, Indonesia, United States, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Djibouti, Iran, Norway, Fiji, Myanmar, Australia, Kenya, South Korea, Denmark, Netherlands | 34 |
The following is a list of naval deployments, CORPAT's and naval exercises of the Indian Navy.
Fleet | Deployment | Ships | Date | Port Visited | Notes and References |
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2013 | |||||
India-Myanmar CORPAT 2013 | 9 – 13 March | Visakhapatnam, India | [6] [7] | ||
Indo-Thai CORPAT 2013 | April | ||||
Southern Naval Command | Visit to Sri Lanka – Captain Vinay Kumar Sawhney
| INS Sujata
ICGS Varuna | 17 – 21 April | Colombo, Sri Lanka | [8] [9] |
India-Indonesia CORPAT 2013 | May | ||||
Eastern Naval Command | South China Sea and Western Pacific – Rear Admiral P. Ajit Kumar | 16 – 23 May | Singapore | IMDEX and SIMBEX 2013[10] [11] | |
26 -31 May | Port Klang, Malaysia | [12] | |||
5 – 8 June | Danang, Vietnam | [13] | |||
12 – 15 June | Manila, Philippines | [14] [15] | |||
Western Naval Command | Persian Gulf – Rear Admiral Anil Kumar Chawla
| 9 – 12 September | Kuwait City, Kuwait | [16] | |
10 – 13 September | Doha, Qatar | [17] | |||
15 – 18 September | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | [18] [19] | |||
19 – 26 September | Muscat, Oman | Naseem Al Bahar IX[20] [21] | |||
India-Indonesia CORPAT 2013 | September | ||||
Western Naval Command | Konkan 2013
| 14 – 19 October | Goa, India | [22] | |
Indo-Thai CORPAT 2013 | November | ||||
Eastern Naval Command | Malabar 2013 | 5 – 11 November | Chennai, India | [23] [24] [25] | |
SLINEX 2013 | November | ||||
Eastern Naval Command | JIMEX 2013 | 19 – 22 December | Bay of Bengal | [26] | |
2014 | |||||
Andaman & Nicobar Command | MILAN 2014
| INS Investigator | 4 – 9 February | Port Blair, India | [27] [28] |
MH-370 Search | 13 – 20 March | Bay of Bengal | [29] [30] | ||
INS Saryu | |||||
Andaman & Nicobar Command | Exercise KOMODO 2014 | 28 March – 3 April | Batam, Indonesia | [31] [32] | |
International Fleet Review | INS Shivalik | 20 – 25 April | Qingdao, China | [33] | |
Eastern Naval Command | SIMBEX 2014 | 22 – 28 May | Port Blair, India | [34] | |
Eastern Naval Command | Western Pacific
| 10 – 13 June | Darwin, Australia | [35] | |
1 July – 2 August | Hawaii, United States | RIMPAC 2014[36] | |||
20 – 24 August | Manila, Philippines | [37] | |||
Eastern Naval Command | Western Pacific- Rear Admiral Atul Kumar Jain | 14 – 19 July | Vladivostok, Russia | Indra 2014[38] | |
23 – 30 July | Sasebo, Japan | Malabar 2014[39] | |||
Southern Naval Command | Persian Gulf – Vice Admiral Surinder Pal Singh Cheema | 12 – October | Port Sultan Qaboos, Oman | [40] | |
Western Naval Command | East Africa and South Indian Ocean – Rear Admiral R. Hari Kumar | 9 – 12 October | Antsiranana, Madagascar | [41] [42] | |
15 October | Mombasa, Kenya | [43] [44] | |||
20 October – 10 November | Simon's Town, South Africa | IBSAMAR 2014[45] | |||
27 October | Saint-Denis, Reunion | [46] | |||
31 October | Port Louis, Mauritius | [47] | |||
6 – 9 November | Port Victoria, Seychelles | [48] | |||
17 November | Nacala, Mozambique | [49] | |||
Maldives Water Crisis | 5 – 12 December | Male, Maldives | [50] [51] | ||
2015 | |||||
Southern Naval Command | Lokayan 2015
| INS Tarangini | 27 April | Kochi, India | [52] [53] |
14 – 17 May | Salalah, Oman | [54] [55] | |||
2 – 4 June | Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | [56] | |||
10 – 12 June | Alexandria, Egypt | [57] | |||
21 June | Valletta, Malta | [58] [59] | |||
Cadiz, Spain | [60] | ||||
Plymouth, United Kingdom | [61] | ||||
Kristiansand, Norway | [62] | ||||
Aalborg, Denmark | [63] | ||||
Rostock, Germany | [64] | ||||
Bremerhaven, Germany | [65] | ||||
Amsterdam, Netherlands | |||||
Le Havre, France | [66] | ||||
Lisbon, Portugal | [67] | ||||
Valletta, Malta | |||||
Port Said, Egypt | [68] | ||||
Djibouti | [69] | ||||
22 -24 November | Port Sultan Qaboos, Oman | [70] | |||
4 December | Kochi, India | ||||
Andaman & Nicobar Command | ARF-DiREx 2015
| 24 – 28 May | Penang, Malaysia | [71] | |
Eastern Naval Command | South Indian Ocean and South China Sea – Rear Admiral Ajendra Bahadur Singh
| 18 – 26 May | Singapore | IMDEX and SIMBEX-15[73] [74] | |
22 – 26 May | Singapore | ||||
31 May – 4 June | Jakarta, Indonesia | [75] | |||
17 – 21 June | Kuantan, Malaysia | [76] | |||
4 – 6 June | Fremantle, Australia | [77] [78] | |||
23 – 26 June | Sihanoukville, Cambodia | [79] | |||
28 – 30 June | Sattahip, Thailand | [80] | |||
Western Naval Command | Seychelles' National Day celebrations
| INS Teg | 26 June – 9 July | Port Victoria, Seychelles | [81] |
Western Naval Command | Visit to Iran | INS Beas | 28 July – 1 August | Bandar Abbas, Iran | [82] |
Eastern Naval Command | AUSINDEX 2015 – Rear Admiral Ajendra Bahadur Singh | INS Ranvijay | 11 – 16 September | Visakhapatnam, India | [83] |
Western Naval Command | Persian Gulf | 5 – 8 September | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | [84] | |
INS Tabar | 9 – 12 September | Manama, Bahrain | [85] | ||
INS Trishul | 10 – 13 September | Jubail, Saudi Arabia | [86] | ||
INS Tabar | 13 – 16 September | Kuwait City, Kuwait | [87] | ||
INS Trishul | 14 – 17 September | Doha, Qatar | [88] | ||
19 – 22 September | Muscat, Oman | [89] | |||
Eastern Naval Command | North West Pacific region and South China Sea
| 2 – 5 October | Danang, Vietnam | [90] | |
23 – 37 October | Incheon, South Korea | [91] | |||
2 – 4 November | Manila, Philippines | [92] | |||
Western Naval Command | West Asia, Africa and Europe
| 10 – 13 August | Djibouti, Djibouti | [93] | |
19 – 23 August | Haifa, Israel | [94] | |||
5 – 11 September | Devonport, United Kingdom | Konkan 2015[95] | |||
26 – 28 September | Toulon, France | [96] | |||
4 – 6 October | Istanbul, Turkey | [97] | |||
11 – 13 October | Safaga, Egypt | [98] | |||
Andaman & Nicobar Command | India-Indonesian CORPAT-2015 26th Edition | 1 – 21 October | Port Belawan, Indonesia | [99] | |
SLINEX-2015 4th Edition
| INS Kora | 27 October – 1 November | Trincomalee, Sri Lanka | [100] | |
Hydro-graphic survey | 8 November – 8 December | Port Victoria, Seychelles | [101] | ||
2016 | |||||
Western Naval Command | Exercise Naseem Al Bahr X | 22 – 27 January | Goa, India | [102] | |
Western Naval Command | Visit to Sri Lanka – Rear Admiral Ravneet Singh[103]
| 21 – 23 January | Colombo, Sri Lanka | ||
15 – 18 February | Male, Maldives | [104] | |||
Southern Naval Command | Indo-Myanmar CORPAT 2016
| 17 – 19 February | Yangon, Myanmar | [105] | |
Western Naval Command | IBSAMAR V | INS Trishul | 19 – 26 February | Goa, India | [106] |
Western Naval Command | Mauritius National Day celebrations[107]
| 10–12 March | Port Louis, Mauritius | ||
Eastern Naval Command &Andaman & Nicobar Command | Exercise Jal Prahar 2016
| INS Jalashwa
LCU 36, 38 & 39 | 27 March – 18 April 2016 | Andaman & Nicobar Islands, India | [108] [109] |
Western Naval Command | DIMDEX 2016
| 28 March – 2 April | Doha, Qatar | ||
Southern Naval Command | South East Asia – Vice Admiral Girish Luthra
| ICGS Varuna | 4 – 8 April | Phuket, Thailand | [110] |
ICGS Varuna | 15 – 18 April | Colombo, Sri Lanka | [111] | ||
Andaman & Nicobar Command | Indo-Thai CORPAT-2016 22nd Edition[112]
| 19 – 27 April | Andaman Sea | ||
Andaman & Nicobar Command | India-Indonesian CORPAT-2016 27th Edition[113]
| 29 April – 16 May | Port Belawan, Indonesia | ||
ASEAN ADMM Plus
| INS Airavat | 1 – 9 May | Brunei | [114] | |
Western Naval Command | Anti-piracy patrol in Gulf of Aden | 2 May | Duqm, Oman | [115] [116] | |
Western Naval Command | Persian Gulf – Rear Admiral Ravneet Singh[117]
| INS Tarkash | 12–15 May | Kuwait City, Kuwait | [118] [119] |
18–19 May | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | [120] | |||
21–24 May | Muscat, Oman | ||||
Eastern Naval Command | South China Sea and the Western Pacific Ocean – Rear Admiral S. V. Bhokare[121]
| 30 May – 2 June | Subic Bay, Philippines | [125] [126] [127] | |
30 May – 3 June | Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam | ||||
INS Sahyadri | 14–17 June | Sasebo, Japan | Malabar 2016[128] | ||
21–25 June | Busan, South Korea | [129] [130] | |||
27 June – 1 July | Vladivostok, Russia | [131] [132] | |||
30 June – 4 August | Hawaii, United States | 25th edition of the RIMPAC Exercise[133] [134] | |||
INS Sahyadri | 15 – 18 July | Port Klang, Malaysia | |||
13 – 15 August | Port Majuro, Marshall Islands | [135] [136] | |||
18 – 20 August | Pohnpei, Micronesia | [137] | |||
31 August – 3 September | Singapore | [138] [139] | |||
Western Naval Command | East Africa and the Southern Indian Ocean – Rear Admiral Ravneet Singh[140]
| 28 – 30 August | Port Victoria, Seychelles | Enhance defence ties with the Seychelles People Defense Forces[142] [143] | |
31 August-3 September | Antsirananna, Madagascar | Relief material for people affected by bush fires.[144] [145] | |||
1 – 4 September | Port Louis, Mauritius | [146] [147] [148] | |||
6 – 9 September | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | [149] [150] | |||
10 – 13 September | Mombasa, Kenya | [151] [152] | |||
17 – 20 September | Maputo, Mozambique | [153] | |||
20 – 23 September | Durban, South Africa | [154] [155] | |||
South Western Pacific Ocean
| 10 – 12 October | Surabaya, Indonesia | [156] | ||
26 – 29 October | Suva, Fiji | [157] | |||
4 – 7 November | Sydney, Australia | [158] | |||
16 – 22 November | Auckland, New Zealand | [159] | |||
6 – 9 December | Darwin, Australia | [160] | |||
16 December | Jakarta, Indonesia | ||||
Andaman & Nicobar Command | India-Indonesian CORPAT-2016 28th Edition
| 10 – 27 October | Belawan, Indonesia | [161] | |
Southern Naval Command | South East Asia – Vice Admiral AR Karve
| ICGS Varuna | 27 – 31 October | Phuket, Thailand | [162] |
2 – 6 November | Yangon, Myanmar | [163] | |||
11 – 15 November | Chittagong, Bangladesh | [164] | |||
Hydro-graphic survey
| 28 October – 29 November | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | [166] | ||
3 December – 3 January | Port Louis, Mauritius | [167] | |||
Eastern Naval Command | SIMBEX 2016 – Rear Admiral Biswajit Dasgupta
| Sindhugosh-class submarine | 31 October – 5 November | Visakhapatnam, India | [168] |
Southern Indian Ocean
| 8 – 10 November | Port Louis, Mauritius | [169] | ||
23 November | Port Victoria, Seychelles | [170] | |||
Sailing race
| INSV Mhadei | 9 November | Goa, India | [171] | |
23 December – 1 January | Cape Town, South Africa | [172] | |||
May 2017 | Goa, India | ||||
Western Naval Command | Konkan 2016 | 5 – 16 December | Mumbai, India | [173] | |
Eastern Naval Command | Operation Madad – Vice Admiral HCS Bisht | 12 December | Chennai, India | HADR Operation for Cyclone Vardah[174] | |
Eastern Naval Command | Indra 2016 | 14 – 21 December | Visakhapatnam, India | [175] | |
Western Naval Command | PASSEX with Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force | 22 December | Goa, India | [176] [177] | |
Exercise Sagar Kavach | 15 – 17 December | Kerala & Lakshdweep, India | Joint Exercise with other agencies[178] | ||
Eastern Naval Command &Andaman & Nicobar Command | Exercise Jal Prahar – Rear Admiral Biswajit Dasgupta | 22 December | Kakinada, India | Amphibious exercise with 108 Mountain Brigade and 91 Infantry Brigade[179] [180] | |
2017 | |||||
Eastern Naval Command & Western Naval Command | Exercise Taiyaar 2017 | January | [181] | ||
Eastern Naval Command & Western Naval Command | TROPEX 2017 – Admiral Sunil Lanba
| 24 January – 23 February | Arabian Sea and North Central Indian Ocean | A month long exercise with Indian Coast Guard, Indian Army and Indian Air Force[182] [183] | |
IDEX 2017 & NAVDEX 2017 | INS Sunayna | 18 February – 12 March | Abu Dabhi, UAE | [184] | |
Eastern Naval Command | Hydro-graphic survey
| 3 March – 12 May | Colombo & Galle, Sri Lanka | [185] [186] [187] | |
Southern Naval Command | Southern Indian Ocean – Vice Admiral AR Karve
| ICGS Sarathi | 11 March | Port Louis, Mauritius | [188] |
18 March | Port Victoria, Seychelles | [189] | |||
29 March – 2 April | Male, Maldives | [190] | |||
5 March – 4 April | Port Victoria, Seychelles | ||||
Andaman & Nicobar Command | Indo-Myanmar CORPAT 2017 – 5th Edition
| INS Bangaram | 12 – 18 March | Yangon, Myanmar | [191] [192] |
Southern Indian Ocean EEZ Surveillance
| 8 – 26 March | Port Louis, Mauritius | [193] | ||
27 March – Mid April | Port Victoria, Seychelles | ||||
Joint Amphibious Workup
| 19 – 31 March | Karwar, India | |||
Andaman & Nicobar Command | LIMA 2017 | 20 – 26 March | Langkawi, Malaysia | ||
Assistance to MV MSC Daniela
| ICGS Shoor | 4 – 6 April | Colombo, Sri Lanka | ||
Andaman & Nicobar Command | Indo-Thai CORPAT-2016 24th Edition[194] | 9 – 21 April | Port Blair, India | [195] [196] | |
Western Naval Command | West Africa and Mediterranean Sea – Rear Admiral R. B. Pandit | 18 – 21 April | Souda Bay, Greece | PASSEX with H | |
24 – 30 April | Toulon, France | VARUNA 2017 with French Navy[202] | |||
Valencia, Spain | [203] | ||||
2 – 5 May | Plymouth, United Kingdom | KONKAN 2017 with Royal Navy[204] [205] [206] [207] | |||
5 – 8 May | Alexandria, Egypt | [208] | |||
7 – 10 May | London, United Kingdom | [209] [210] | |||
9 -12 May | Haifa, Israel | [211] [212] [213] | |||
14 – 17 May | Lisbon, Portugal | [214] | |||
16 – 20 May | Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | [215] | |||
19 May | Casablanca, Morocco | [216] | |||
31 May | Lagos, Nigeria | [217] [218] [219] | |||
10 June | Luanda, Angola | [220] [221] | |||
15 – 18 June | Walvis Bay, Namibia | [222] [223] | |||
21 – 24 June | Cape Town, South Africa | [224] [225] [226] [227] | |||
3 – 6 July | Port Louis, Mauritius | [228] [229] | |||
Andaman & Nicobar Command | India-Indonesian CORPAT-2017 29th Edition | 9 – 12 May | Port Blair, India | [230] | |
22 – 25 May | Belawan, Indonesia | [231] | |||
Eastern Naval Command | – Captain R A Shah | 11 – 13 May | Yangon, Myanmar | Operational Turn around (OTR)[232] | |
Eastern Naval Command | South East Asia – Rear Admiral Biswajit Dasgupta[233]
| 11 – 24 May | Singapore | International Maritime Review and SIMBEX 2017[234] | |
14 – 19 May | Kuantan, Malaysia | [235] | |||
21 – 24 May | Singapore | SIMBEX 2017[236] | |||
26 – 30 May | Jakarta, Indonesia | [237] | |||
1 – 5 June | Surabaya, Indonesia | [238] | |||
12 – 15 June | Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea | [239] | |||
13 – 17 June | Fremantle, Australia | AUSINDEX 2017[240] [241] [242] | |||
Western Naval Command | Joint Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) Exercise – Karavali Karunya | 18 – 20 May | Karwar, India | [243] [244] | |
Maria3 landing craft search | 20 May | Maldives | [245] [246] [247] | ||
Southern Naval Command | Training Mission | 21 – 24 May | Colombo, Sri Lanka | [248] | |
Eastern Naval Command | HADR to Sri Lanka | 27 May | Colombo, Sri Lanka | [249] [250] [251] | |
Eastern Naval Command | SAR during Cyclone Mora in Bay of Bengal
| 30 May – 2 June | Chittagong, Bangladesh | [252] [253] | |
31 May – 2 June | [254] | ||||
6 – 8 June | Yangon, Myanmar | [255] [256] | |||
Western Naval Command | Deployment to Mauritius EEZ
| 3 – 6 June | Port Louis, Mauritius | [257] | |
Southern Naval Command |
| 6 June | Port Louis, Mauritius | [258] | |
Western Naval Command | SAR for Mexican Sail Training Ship (STS) Cuauhtemoc
| 12 – 13 June | Arabian Sea | [259] | |
Southern Naval Command | Seychelles National Day Celebrations | INS Sunyana | 26 – 30 June | Port Victoria, Seychelles | [260] [261] |
Southern Naval Command | PASSEX with HMAS Newcastle | INS Sunyana | 7 July | Kochi, India | [262] [263] |
Eastern Naval Command | Malabar 2017 | 10 – 17 July | Chennai, India | [264] | |
Eastern Naval Command | – Captain R Ashok | 24 – 27 July | Chittagong, Bangladesh | [265] [266] | |
Guangzhou Nansha International Regatta | 28 – 30 July | Guangzhou city, China | [267] [268] | ||
Western Naval Command | Anti-Piracy Patrol | 1 August | Gulf of Aden | [269] | |
Eastern Naval Command | SLINEX 2017 | 7 – 14 September | Visakhapatnam, India | [270] [271] | |
Southern Naval Command | Navika Sagar Parikrama
| 10 September | Goa, India | [272] [273] | |
23 October – 5 November | Fremantle, Australia | [274] [275] | |||
29 November – 12 December | Lyttleton, New Zealand | [276] | |||
22 January – 4 February (2018) | Port Stanley, Falkland Islands | [277] [278] | |||
2 – 14 March (2018) | Cape Town, South Africa | [279] | |||
18 – 26 April (2018) | Port Louis, Mauritius | Unscheduled repair stop[280] | |||
21 May (2018) | Goa, India | [281] | |||
Eastern Naval Command | East and South-East Asia
| 14 – 17 September | Singapore | [282] [283] [284] [285] | |
23 – 26 September | Haiphong, Vietnam | [286] [287] | |||
3 – 6 October | Manila, Philippines | [288] [289] | |||
12 – 15 October | Sasebo, Japan | [290] [291] | |||
18 – 29 October | Vladivostok, Russia | INDRA 2017[292] [293] [294] | |||
6 November | Sea of Japan | PASSEX with USN[295] | |||
17 – 22 November | Pattaya, Thailand | ASEAN IFR[296] [297] [298] | |||
24 – 26 November | Sihanoukville, Cambodia | [299] | |||
25 – 28 November | Muara, Brunei | [300] [301] | |||
30 November – 2 December | Belawan, Indonesia | [302] | |||
2 – 5 December | Malaysia | HADR exercise and PASSEX[303] [304] | |||
Western Naval Command | Western Arabian Sea and Southern Indian Ocean | 20 September | Duqm, Oman | [305] [306] [307] | |
Eastern Naval Command | Operation Insaniyat – HADR Bangladesh for Rohingya crisis
| 25 – 29 September | Chittagong, Bangladesh | [308] [309] [310] [311] | |
Western Naval Command | Northern Arabian Sea | 5 October | Arabian Sea | [312] [313] | |
Southern Naval Command | South-East Asia
| ICGS Sarathi | 3 – 12 October | Penang, Malaysia | [314] |
18 – 22 October | Jakarta, Indonesia | [315] | |||
1 – 6 November | Colombo, Sri Lanka | [316] [317] | |||
3 October – 7 November | Jakarta, Indonesia | ||||
Andaman & Nicobar Command | 8 – 15 October | Male, Maldives | [318] [319] | ||
Andaman & Nicobar Command | India-Indonesian CORPAT-2017 30th Edition | 24 October – 5 November | Belawan, Indonesia | [320] [321] [322] | |
Southern Naval Command | Hydrographic Survey of Southern and Western coast | 26 October – 21 December | Colombo, Sri Lanka | [323] [324] [325] | |
Western Naval Command | EEZ Surveillance | 21 October – 1 November | Port Victoria, Seychelles | ||
2 – 9 November | Port Louis, Mauritius | [326] | |||
Southern Naval Command | Hydrographic Survey of Pemba Island
| 15 November | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | [327] [328] | |
Western Naval Command | National Day Celebrations and Presence-Surveillance mission | 18 – 25 November | Muscat, Oman | [329] [330] [331] | |
Andaman & Nicobar Command | DANX | 20 – 24 November | Andaman & Nicobar Islands, India | [332] | |
Eastern Naval Command | IMMSAREX | 26 – 28 November | Chittagong, Bangladesh | [333] | |
Southern Naval Command and Western Naval Command | HADR and SAR for Cyclone Okhi
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ICGS Samar ICGS Sarathi ICGS Sanklap ICGS Samrat ICGS Shoor ICGS Abhinav ICGS Aadesh ICGS Abhiraaj ICGS Kasturba Gandhi ICGS Kasturba Gandhi | 30 November – 10 December | Vizhinjam and Lakshadweep, India | [334] [335] [336] [337] [338] [339] [340] [341] |
Western Naval Command | Anti-piracy deployment in Gulf of Aden
| 4 December | Salalah, Oman | [342] | |
Western Naval Command | Persian Gulf
| 17 – 23 December | Muscat, Oman | Exercise Naseem Al Bahr XI[343] [344] | |
23 – 26 December | Abu Dabhi, UAE | [345] | |||
Western Naval Command | PASSEX with French Navy | 24 December | Goa, India | [346] | |
Hydrographic Survey | 30 December | Port Louis, Mauritius | [347] | ||
2018 | |||||
Western Naval Command | Operational Exercise | 8 – 9 January | Arabian sea | [348] [349] | |
Eastern Naval Command, Western Naval Command, Andaman & Nicobar Command and Indian Coast Guard | Eastern Naval Command Operational Readiness Exercise (Encore) | January – 7 February | Indian Ocean Region | [350] | |
Western Naval Command | SAR operation for ONGC Helicopter
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T11 T45 ICGS Samudra Prahari ICGS Agrim ICGS Achook | 13 January | Mumbai High North | [351] [352] [353] |
Andaman & Nicobar Command | India-Thai CORPAT-2018 25th Edition – Commodore A Ridhorkar
| 23 – 31 January | Phuket, Thailand | [354] [355] [356] [357] | |
Eastern Naval Command | PASSEX with Bangladesh Navy | INS Khukri | 12 – 14 February | Chennai, India | [358] |
Western Naval Command and Eastern Naval Command | Paschim Lehar – Tri service exercise with Indian Air Force, Indian Army and Indian Coast Guard | 12 February – 1 March | Arabian sea | [360] [361] [362] | |
Southern Naval Command | Southern Indian Ocean
| ICGS Sarathi | 20 – 28 February | Port Victoria, Seychelles | [363] [364] |
10 March | Port Louis, Mauritius | [365] | |||
20 March | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | [366] | |||
Andaman & Nicobar Command | MILAN 2018
| 6 – 13 March | Port Blair, India | [367] [368] | |
Western Naval Command | Persian Gulf
| 11 – 15 March | Doha, Qatar | DIMDEX and PASSEX with Qatari Emiri Navy[369] [370] | |
18 – 22 March | Port Zayed, UAE | Gulf Star 1 naval exercise[371] | |||
Andaman & Nicobar Command | Indo-Myanmar CORPAT 6th Edition | INS Kulish | 14 – 18 March | Port Blair, India | [372] [373] |
Western Naval Command | Varuna 2018 (Phase I) with French Navy | 15 – 24 March | Goa, India | [374] [375] | |
Eastern Naval Command | INMEX 1st Edition with Myanmar Navy
| 25 March – 3 April | Visakhapatnam, India | [376] | |
Western Naval Command | Training Exercise with US Navy | 26 March | Persian Gulf | [377] | |
Western Naval Command | Operational exercise | 4 April | Arabian sea | [378] | |
Southern Naval Command | Exercise Chakravath – HADR | 5 – 6 April | Kochi, India | [379] [380] | |
Eastern Naval Command | Varuna 2018 (Phase II) with French Navy | INS Kirch | 7 – 8 April | Chennai, India | [381] [382] |
Eastern Naval Command | DefExpo 2018
| 13 – 15 April | Chennai, India | [383] [384] | |
Southern Naval Command | Lokayan 2018
| 11 April | Kochi, India | [385] [386] [387] | |
22 April | Salalah, Oman | [388] | |||
6 – 9 May | Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | [389] [390] | |||
27 May | Valletta, Malta | [391] | |||
4 – 6 June | Lisbon, Portugal | [392] | |||
14 June | Bordeaux, France | Tall Regatta Ship Festival[393] | |||
13 July | Sunderland, United Kingdom | Tall Ship Races[394] | |||
[395] | |||||
Stavanger, Norway | |||||
Harlingen, Netherlands | |||||
Amsterdam, Netherlands | |||||
Le Havre, France | |||||
30 October | Kochi, India | [396] | |||
Western Naval Command | Southern Indian Ocean | 23 April | Port Victoria, Seychelles | [397] | |
1 May | Port Louis, Mauritius | [398] | |||
1 – 7 May | Réunion, France | Varuna 2018 (Phase II|) with French Navy[399] [400] |-|13 May|Moroni, Comoros|[401] |-|18 May|Antsiranana, Madagascar|[402] |-|Southern Naval Command|Exercise Sagar Kavach||24 – 26 April|Kochi, India|[403] |-||Exercise Ekatha 2018 with MNDF
||28 April – 15 May|Maafilhafushi, Maldives|[404] |-| rowspan="9" |Eastern Naval Command| rowspan="9" |East and South-East Asia – Rear Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi
| INS Shakti|6 – 8 May|Singapore|[405] |-|INS Shakti|13 – 16 May|Sattahip, Thailand|[406] |-|INS Kamorta|14 – 17 May|Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia|PASSEX with Royal Malaysian Navy[407] [408] [409] |-| rowspan="2" | INS Shakti|21 – 25 May|Da Nang, Vietnam|[410] |-|7 – 15 June|Guam, United States|Malabar 2018 exercise with US Navy and JMSDF[411] [412] |-|INS Kamorta|24- 26 June|Makassar, Indonesia|[413] |-| rowspan="3" ||27 June – 2 August|Pearl Harbor, United States|Exercise RIMPAC 2018[414] [415] |-|13 – 16 August|Suva, Fiji|[416] [417] |-|29 August – 15 September|Darwin, Australia|Exercise Kakadu 2018[418] |-|Andaman & Nicobar Command|Economic Zone (EEZ) Surveillance (9–17 May) ||11 -12 May|Male, Maldives||-| rowspan="2" |Andaman & Nicobar Command| rowspan="2" |India-Indonesian CORPAT-2018 31st Edition – Commodore Ashutosh Ridhorkar
| rowspan="2" |INS Kulish|24 – 25 May|Port Blair, India| rowspan="2" |[419] |-|6 – 9 June|Belawan, Indonesia|-|Eastern Naval Command|South east Asia deployment ||2 June|Singapore|[420] [421] |-|Southern Naval Command|Operation Nistar – HADR for cyclone Mekenu ||3 June|Socotra, Yemen|[422] |-|Andaman & Nicobar Command|India-Thai CORPAT-2018 26th Edition ||16 – 22 June|Port Blair, India|[423] [424] |-|Eastern Naval Command|India-Bangladesh CORPAT-2018 1st Edition ||27 June|Chittagong, Bangladesh|[425] |-|Western Naval Command|
||7 – 9 July|Colombo, Sri Lanka|[426] [427] |-|Andaman & Nicobar Command|Malacca straits operational deployment
||11 July|Sabang, Indonesia|[428] |-|Western Naval Command|Anti-piracy patrol in Gulf of Aden under Combined Task Force ||16 July|Djibouti, Djibouti|[429] [430] |-| rowspan="2" |Western Naval Command| rowspan="2" |Arabian Sea operational deployment | rowspan="2" ||18 July|Mombasa, Kenya|[431] |-|24 – 26 July|Bandar Abbas, Iran|[432] |-|Eastern Naval Command|Operational Turn-around
||18 – 20 August|Yangon, Myanmar|[433] [434] |-|Eastern Naval Command|SLINEX 2018 – Rear Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi INS Cora Divh|7 – 13 September|Trincomalee, Sri Lanka|[435] |-| rowspan="2" |Western Naval Command| rowspan="2" |East Africa and the Southern Indian Ocean – Vice Admiral Girish Luthra
| rowspan="2" |INS Kolkata|15 – 18 September|Mombasa, Kenya|[436] [437] |-|1 -13 October|Simon's Town, South Africa|IBSAMAR IV[438] |-|Western Naval Command|West Asia
||19 – 21 September|Hamad, Qatar|[439] |-|Eastern Naval Command|Southern Indian Ocean deployment and Golden Globe Rescue Mission
||21 September – 2 October|South Indian Ocean|[440] |-|Andaman & Nicobar Command|Indo-Myanmar CORPAT 7th Edition
|INS KulishINS Battimalv|24 – 26 September|Yangon, Myanmar|[441] |-|Southern Naval Command| INS Tir|30 September – 2 October|Singapore|[442] |-| rowspan="3" |Eastern Naval Command| rowspan="3" |Operational deployment to the North West Pacific
| rowspan="3" ||27 – 30 September|Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam|[443] |-|8 – 15 October|Jeju Naval Base, South Korea|IFR and PASSEX[444] |-|12 – 18 November|Surabaya, Indonesia|Exercise Samudra Shakti[445] |-|Eastern Naval Command|JIMEX 18 – Rear Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi | INS Shakti|7 – 15 October|Visakhapatnam, India|[446] |-| rowspan="2" |Southern Naval Command| rowspan="2" |Anti-piracy patrol in Gulf of Aden
| rowspan="2" |INS Sunayna|11 October|Djibouti, Djibouti|[447] [448] |-|18 November|Gulf of Aden|PASSEX with JMSDF[449] |-|Eastern Naval Command|Operational deployment to Central Indian Ocean Region |INS Rajput|11 October|Colombo, Sri Lanka|[450] |-|Andaman & Nicobar Command|India-Indonesian CORPAT-2018 32nd Edition – Commodore Ashutosh Ridhorkar
||11 – 27 October|Belawan, Indonesia|[451] |-|Eastern Naval Command|SIMBEX-2018 25th Edition – Rear Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi
INS Sindhukirti|10 – 21 November|Port Blair and Visakhapatnam, India|[452] |-|Western Naval Command|Konkan 2018 with Royal Navy
|INS Kolkata|28 November – 6 December|Goa, India|[453] |} References |