India needs a home-built Navy

The Indian Navy, which celebrates Navy Day today and Submarine Day on December 8, and will be holding a grand President’s review of the fleet in Mumbai on December 20, would look back with somejustifiable pride on its recent achievements, including the unglamorous task of coastal security and anti-piracy operations, while simultaneously proudly displaying the tricolour in its overseas deployments.However, the Indian Navy’s traditional record on indigenous force augmentation needs “help”

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