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With Over 50 Navies Participating, India Concludes 2016 International Fleet Review ( Source- The Diplomat / Author- Ankit Panda)

International Fleet Review-2016 ( Image credits- Indian navy)  Source- The Diplomat Author- Ankit Panda India’s Eastern Naval Command hosted the navies of approximately 52 countries for five days last week for the International Fleet Review. More than 100 naval vessels participated in the review, which involves a ceremonial inspection to showcase naval readiness among other activities. Warships and sailors from the Indian, U.S., Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Australian, and South Korean navies, among others, participated. The 2016 fleet review was held in the Bay of Bengal, off the coastal city of Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Pranab Mukherjee, and Chief of Naval Staff R.K. Dhowan were in attendance. India last hosted an International Fleet Review in 2001 off the coast of Mumbai, with the participation of 29 countries. India’s naval fleet reviews occur once during the tenure of each president. This year’s review marks th

India: International Fleet Review 2016 – Analysis (Source- Eurasia Review / Author- Commdore RS Vasan IN (Retd) /SAAG)

Indian navy western fleet ( Source- Wikimedia Commons / Indian navy) Source- Eurasia Review Author- Commdore RS Vasan IN (Retd) /SAAG The IFR 2016 will indeed be a grand spectacle as more than one hundred ships from the navies of over fifty countries will participate in this exercise that is carried out every five years. The event which in the initial years was mostly limited to the participation of ships from the Indian Navy, Indian Coast Guard and the merchant navy transformed in to an international event with a major maritime event conducted in 2001 under the initiative of then Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Susheel Kumar. The marching of the naval officers and sailors from ships around the world along the marine drive in Mumbai and the presence of many ships from around the world signaled a new era in maritime diplomacy. The intentions of a maritime India to occupy center stage in both regional and global missions by using the Indian Navy as an instrument of national po