Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Stealth ships to give fillip to Indian Navy's Ocean power?
Deccan ChronicleThe Indian Navy deserves to be complimented for receiving the “Project 15B” Kolkata class stealth destroyer Vishakhapatnam on October 31, which incidentally was the 37th death anniversary of Indira Gandhi, who was one of the rare political figures in India who could grasp the supreme importance of sea power. The Indian Navy’s vessels set sail for “Mission in the Ocean”, well served by its in-house directorate of naval design to boost an indigenous production line. The Indian Navy’s finest hour arrived in September 1980 with the induction of the first of five power-packed Soviet-origin 4,950-ton “full load” Kashin class destroyers. In 1989-1990, the West’s attention was focused on New Delhi, not Beijing, thanks to the lingering misjudgement of Kissinger & Co. “That India intends to be dominant regional maritime power ‘from Suez to Malacca’ can no longer be in doubt… Since the US Seventh Fleet sailed uninvited into the Bay of Bengal in 1971, it indicated a wish to be able to challenge superpower supremacy”.
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