{"id":136117,"date":"2021-09-22T18:46:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T13:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=136117"},"modified":"2021-09-25T15:33:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T10:03:11","slug":"submarine-strategy-undersea-naval-prowess-is-shaping-strategic-battles-india-mustnt-lag-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/submarine-strategy-undersea-naval-prowess-is-shaping-strategic-battles-india-mustnt-lag-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"Submarine strategy: Undersea naval prowess is shaping strategic battles, India mustn\u2019t lag behind\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
What is the news?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

Recently, Australia, US and UK held trilateral security pact named as AUKUS<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.\u00a0Under this pact, they are delivering\u00a0nuclear-powered submarines to Canberra. The aim of the security pact is to\u00a0counter\u00a0China\u2019s maritime\u00a0power\u00a0in the Indo-Pacific region.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With China as the focus, the strategic-military power plays of the coming decades will be based on naval power, with submarines playing a vital role.<\/p>\n

How submarines play a key role?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

In coming decades, strategic military power will be based on naval power. Hence, t<\/strong><\/span>o become a naval power, submarines play a vital role.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Submarines can be great levelers in asymmetric military scenarios due to their long range, stealth, strike and force projection capabilities. With nuclear submarines these factors are multiplied further, enabling longer operational periods.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That is why,\u00a0Singapore,\u00a0Indonesia,\u00a0Japan and Taiwan which\u00a0are\u00a0facing the brunt of Beijing\u2019s military intimidation are\u00a0<\/span>inducting submarines to counter Chinese aggression<\/span><\/b>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the present status of India\u2019s underwater fleet?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

First,<\/span><\/b>\u00a0India has natural geographic advantages. Hence, high seas are the only domain in which India can checkmate China.<\/span> But, India\u2019s underwater fleet\u00a0lacks the required to counter China.<\/span><\/p>\n

Second<\/span><\/b>, today the Indian navy has 12 old diesel-electric submarines with only half of them operational<\/strong> at any given point of time.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Third,<\/span><\/b>\u00a0the force has inducted just three of the six projected French\u00a0Scorpene\u00a0submarines. It\u00a0has only\u00a0<\/span>one nuclear-powered submarine with nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles, the INS Arihant.\u00a0<\/span><\/b>In contrast, China already has the world\u2019s largest navy with 350 warships, including 50 conventional and 10 nuclear submarines. We need to\u00a0mitigate the gap to counter China and dominate Indian Ocean.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the target that we need to achieve?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

India should have at least 18 conventional submarines, six nuclear attack submarines and four nuclear submarines with nuclear missiles\u00a0to become a naval power. <\/span><\/p>\n

We are nowhere near that target.\u00a0To achieve its ambitions in the Indo-Pacific,\u00a0the\u00a0defence\u00a0bureaucracy must quickly address this delay.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/strong>:\u00a0This post is based on the article “<\/span>\u00a0Submarine strategy: Undersea naval prowess is shaping strategic\u00a0battles,\u00a0India mustn\u2019t lag\u00a0behind “<\/span><\/b> published in The Times of India<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>on\u00a0<\/span>21st September 2021.<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is the news?\u00a0 Recently, Australia, US and UK held trilateral security pact named as AUKUS.\u00a0Under this pact, they are delivering\u00a0nuclear-powered submarines to Canberra. The aim of the security pact is to\u00a0counter\u00a0China\u2019s maritime\u00a0power\u00a0in the Indo-Pacific region.\u00a0 With China as the focus, the strategic-military power plays of the coming decades will be based on naval power,… Continue reading Submarine strategy: Undersea naval prowess is shaping strategic battles, India mustn\u2019t lag behind\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,9],"tags":[9822,9823,8963],"class_list":["post-136117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-aukus-alliance","tag-australia-us-uk-pact","tag-bilateral-regional-and-global-groupings-and-agreements","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700791946,"cached_date":1704765241},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}