{"id":147464,"date":"2021-11-18T20:44:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T15:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=147464"},"modified":"2021-11-18T20:44:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T15:14:23","slug":"naval-ambition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/naval-ambition\/","title":{"rendered":"Naval Ambition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Indian navy aims to become a 170-warship force from its current strength of 130 warships over the next decade.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the significance of India&#8217;s naval plan?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Firstly,<\/strong> there is a high possibility that the most consequential<strong> strategic battles of this century<\/strong> will be played out on the high seas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Secondly, China&#8217;s agressiveness<\/strong> in the Indo-Pacific and building the world\u2019s largest navy. China already has 355 warships, including at least 50 conventional and 10 nuclear submarines.<\/p>\n<p>Third, A <strong>collusive threat of China-Pakistan. China <\/strong>recently transferred its largest and most advanced warship to Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fourth, Reorientation of India&#8217;s military<\/strong> \u2013 India has traditionally been focused on land-based forces. Now it requires boosting its naval prowess. India currently has just one nuclear-powered submarine, the INS Arihant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the challenges in front of India?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s target of 170 ships seems achievable, as 39 naval ships and submarines are already under construction in various Indian shipyards. However, it may not be sufficient, India&#8217;s initial plan was for a 200-plus naval force, it was reduced to 170 ships, and that too with an extension of timeline by 5 years.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, considering the present circumstances, India needs to increase the <strong>pace of India\u2019s naval modernization<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> This post is based on the article \u201c<strong>Naval Ambition<\/strong>\u201d published in <strong>Times Of India<\/strong> on 18th November 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Indian navy aims to become a 170-warship force from its current strength of 130 warships over the next decade. What is the significance of India&#8217;s naval plan?\u00a0 Firstly, there is a high possibility that the most consequential strategic battles of this century will be played out on the high seas. Secondly, China&#8217;s agressiveness in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/naval-ambition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Naval Ambition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-147464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704905382},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147464","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\/10335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}