Eye on China, India expands naval footprint in Indian Ocean

The Navy is ramping up its new “mission-based deployments” in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) stretching from the Persian Gulf to the Malacca Strait, with warships on round-the-clock patrols to meet any operational eventuality from conventional threats and maritime terrorism to piracy and humanitarian disaster relief.

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