"The Indian Navy briefly touches upon the national consciousness every year on December 4 when it celebrates Navy Day to commemorate its successful sea-borne bombing of the Karachi harbour in the 1971 war with Pakistan. Similarly, it now makes news whenever its warships successfully interdict Somali pirates and rescue merchant vessels off the Gulf of Aden or elsewhere.
Otherwise, sadly, the navy remains out of sight and mind, unlike the army and air force. Such situations arise because the army is actively involved in counter-insurgency operations in Jammu & Kashmir, while the air force makes news because its MiG-21 fighter aircraft keep crashing constantly"........READ MORE
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