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Originally Posted by Sunroof
... I never knew that India even had a navy!! ...
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Virtually every country with a coastline has a navy of some sort. Most are like our Coast Guard - near shore coastal defense. But, several countries have real-live "Blue Water" Navies.
As an aspiring regional or world power, India - like China - has more than one might think. The Chinese recently 'floated' their plans for a carrier. Several countries have 1 or 2; we have 10 or 11.
Building helicopter type carriers makes sense for many countries - they are well-suited to coastal defense, anti-piracy/hijacking, and to the coming relief ops that will be needed as more and larger coastal cities are hit by storms and flooding. They are also a good R&D project preliminary to building your own big-ass 24 hr. round the clock attack carrier fleet....