List of Indian Naval deployments

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The list of deployments of the Indian Navy from 2013.

Background

In the 1970s and 1980s, Indian Navy's deployments outside the Indian Ocean were largely limited to delivery of new vessels. Over years, the Indian leadership looked at the Navy as an effective tool for foreign policy and this was reflected in the pattern of Indian navy deployments. The Indian Navy hosted its first International Fleet Review in February 2001. This event was termed "Bridges of Friendship" and was attended by 24 warships form 19 countries. An office dedicated to international co-operation was created in 2005. This term has been used by the Navy since then to undertake humanitarian and security missions by engaging with nations primarily in the Indian Ocean littoral region and South-east Asia. These engagements include mutual port visits, international forums and joint naval exercises.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

In late 2017, the Indian Navy adopted a new plan for deployment of warships which was aimed to counter the increasing presence of Chinese presence in the Indian Ocean. Under the new plan, 14–15 mission ready warships are deployed across multiple regions including the Malacca Strait and Andaman Sea; North Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal (Bangladesh and Myanmar), Lakshadweep islands and Maldives; Madagascar; the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea.^[5]

Summary of naval deployments

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Year	List of countries visited	Number of countries visited
2013	Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, Oman,	9
2014	Indonesia, China, United States, Australia, Philippines, Russia, Japan, Maldives, Kenya, South Africa, France, Mauritius, Seychelles, Mozambique, Madagascar	15
2015	Sri Lanka, Spain, Indonesia, Egypt, France, United Kingdom, United States, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, Cambodia, Thailand, Seychelles, Iran, UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, South Korea, Vietnam, Djibouti, Malta, Philippines, Israel, Turkey, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Portugal	31
2016	Bangladesh, Brunei, Fiji, Indonesia, Kuwait, Kenya, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mozambique, New Zealand, South Africa, Russia, South Korea, Japan, Mauritius, Madagascar, Micronesia, Qatar, Sri Lanka, Seychelles, Singapore, Thailand, Tanzania, Oman, Philippines, UAE, United States, Vietnam	29
2017	UAE, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Greece, France, United Kingdom, Egypt, Indonesia, Israel, Singapore, Malaysia, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Angola, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Namibia, South Africa, China, Oman, Vietnam, Philippines, Japan, Maldives, Russia, Tanzania. Thailand, Cambodia, Brunei, New Zealand, Spain	36
2018	Falkland Islands (UK) and United Kingdom, Thailand, Seychelles, South Africa, Mauritius, Qatar, UAE, Tanzania, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Reunion Islands (France) and France, Maldives, Comoros, Malaysia, Madagascar, Vietnam, Malta, Portugal, Yemen, Indonesia, United States, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Djibouti, Iran, Norway, Fiji, Myanmar, Australia, Kenya, South Korea, Denmark, Netherlands	34
2024	Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, Brunei, Japan, USA, Seychelles, Mauritius, Bangladesh, Egypt, Germany, Russia, United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, France, Sri Lanka, Iran, Kenya, Australia, Oman and Morocco	24
2025	Senegal, Nigeria, South Africa, Seychelles, Indonesia, Mauritius, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Morocco, Italy, Papua New Guinea, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Greece, Fiji, Mozambique, Cyprus, Kenya, Italy, South Korea, Japan and United States	24
2026	Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Bahrain, Mauritius, Seychelles, Mozambique, Oman, Egypt, Malta, France, Morocco, Kenya, Australia, Tanzania, Sri Lanka, Spain, Cape Verde, Maldives, Vietnam, Antigua and the United States	21

List of deployments (2013–15)

The following is a list of naval deployments, Coordinated Patrols (CORPATs) and naval exercises of the Indian Navy.

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Fleet	Deployment	Ships	Date	Port Visited	Notes and References
2013
	India-Myanmar CORPAT 2013		9 – 13 March	Visakhapatnam, India	^[6]^[7]
	Indo-Thai CORPAT 2013		April
Southern Naval Command	Visit to Sri Lanka – Captain Vinay Kumar Sawhney INS Sujata – Commander Dalip Singh INS Tarangini – Commander T Sugreev ICGS Varuna – Commander KM Arun Kumar	INS Sujata INS Tarangini ICGS Varuna	17 – 21 April	Colombo, Sri Lanka	^[8]^[9]
	India-Indonesia CORPAT 2013		May
Eastern Naval Command	South China Sea and Western Pacific – Rear Admiral P. Ajit Kumar INS Ranvijay INS Satpura INS Kirch INS Shakti	INS Satpura INS Kirch	16 – 23 May	Singapore	IMDEX and SIMBEX 2013^[10]^[11]
		INS Ranvijay INS Satpura INS Kirch INS Shakti	26 -31 May	Port Klang, Malaysia	^[12]
			5 – 8 June	Danang, Vietnam	^[13]
			12 – 15 June	Manila, Philippines	^[14]^[15]
Western Naval Command	Persian Gulf – Rear Admiral Anil Kumar Chawla INS Mysore INS Tarkash INS Tabar- Captain S. Venkat Raman INS Aditya	INS Mysore INS Tarkash	9 – 12 September	Kuwait City, Kuwait	^[16]
		INS Tabar INS Aditya	10 – 13 September	Doha, Qatar	^[17]
		INS Mysore INS Tarkash INS Tabar INS Aditya	15 – 18 September	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	^[18]^[19]
		INS Mysore INS Tarkash INS Tabar INS Aditya	19 – 26 September	Muscat, Oman	Naseem Al Bahar IX^[20]^[21]
	India-Indonesia CORPAT 2013		September
Western Naval Command	Konkan 2013 INS Delhi – Captain Sandeep Mehta	INS Delhi	14 – 19 October	Goa, India	^[22]
	Indo-Thai CORPAT 2013		November
Eastern Naval Command	Malabar 2013 INS Ranvijay INS Shivalik	INS Ranvijay INS Shivalik	5 – 11 November	Chennai, India	^[23]^[24]^[25]
	SLINEX 2013		November
Eastern Naval Command	JIMEX 2013 INS Ranvijay INS Satpura INS Kuthar	INS Ranvijay INS Satpura INS Kuthar	19 – 22 December	Bay of Bengal	^[26]
2014
Andaman & Nicobar Command	MILAN 2014 INS Saryu INS Kesari INS Investigator INS Batti Malv INS Baratang INS Bangaram	INS Saryu INS Kesari INS Investigator INS Batti Malv INS Baratang INS Bangaram	4 – 9 February	Port Blair, India	^[27]^[28]
	MH-370 Search INS Satpura INS Sahyadri INS Saryu INS Kesari INS Kumbhir INS Batti Malv	INS Satpura INS Sahyadri	13 – 20 March	Bay of Bengal	^[29]^[30]
		INS Saryu INS Kesari INS Kumbhir INS Batti Malv	13 – 20 March	Andaman Sea	^[29]^[30]
Andaman & Nicobar Command	Exercise KOMODO 2014 INS Sukanya	INS Sukanya	28 March – 3 April	Batam, Indonesia	^[31]^[32]
	International Fleet Review INS Shivalik	INS Shivalik	20 – 25 April	Qingdao, China	^[33]
Eastern Naval Command	SIMBEX 2014 INS Karmuk INS Kuthar	INS Karmuk INS Kuthar	22 – 28 May	Port Blair, India	^[34]
Eastern Naval Command	Western Pacific INS Sahyadri'- Captain Jyotin Raina	INS Sahyadri	10 – 13 June	Darwin, Australia	^[35]
			1 July – 2 August	Hawaii, United States	RIMPAC 2014^[36]
			20 – 24 August	Manila, Philippines	^[37]
Eastern Naval Command	Western Pacific- Rear Admiral Atul Kumar Jain INS Ranvijay INS Shivalik INS Shakti	INS Ranvijay INS Shivalik INS Shakti	14 – 19 July	Vladivostok, Russia	Indra 2014^[38]
Eastern Naval Command		INS Ranvijay INS Shivalik INS Shakti	23 – 30 July	Sasebo, Japan	Malabar 2014^[39]
Southern Naval Command	Persian Gulf – Vice Admiral Surinder Pal Singh Cheema INS Tir INS Sujata INS Tarangini	INS Tir INS Sujata INS Tarangini	12 – October	Port Sultan Qaboos, Oman	^[40]
Western Naval Command	East Africa and South Indian Ocean – Rear Admiral R. Hari Kumar INS Mumbai INS Talwar INS Teg INS Deepak	INS Mumbai INS Talwar INS Teg INS Deepak	9 – 12 October	Antsiranana, Madagascar	^[41]^[42]
		INS Mumbai INS Talwar INS Deepak	15 October	Mombasa, Kenya	^[43]^[44]
		INS Teg	20 October – 10 November	Simon's Town, South Africa	IBSAMAR 2014^[45]
		INS Mumbai INS Talwar INS Deepak	27 October	Saint-Denis, Reunion	^[46]
			31 October	Port Louis, Mauritius	^[47]
			6 – 9 November	Port Victoria, Seychelles	^[48]
		INS Teg	17 November	Nacala, Mozambique	^[49]
	Maldives Water Crisis INS Deepak INS Sukanya	INS Deepak INS Sukanya (Commander M. Dorai Babu)	5 – 12 December	Male, Maldives	^[50]^[51]
2015
Southern Naval Command	Lokayan 2015 INS Tarangini – Commander Gaurav Gautam	INS Tarangini	27 April	Kochi, India	^[52]^[53]
			14 – 17 May	Salalah, Oman	^[54]^[55]
			2 – 4 June	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia	^[56]
			10 – 12 June	Alexandria, Egypt	^[57]
			21 June	Valletta, Malta	^[58]^[59]
				Cadiz, Spain	^[60]
				Plymouth, United Kingdom	^[61]
				Kristiansand, Norway	^[62]
				Aalborg, Denmark	^[63]
				Rostock, Germany	^[64]
				Bremerhaven, Germany	^[65]
				Amsterdam, Netherlands
				Le Havre, France	^[66]
				Lisbon, Portugal	^[67]
				Valletta, Malta
				Port Said, Egypt	^[68]
				Djibouti	^[69]
			22 -24 November	Port Sultan Qaboos, Oman	^[70]
			4 December	Kochi, India
Andaman & Nicobar Command	ARF-DiREx 2015 INS Saryu – Commander Sreekumar Pillai	INS Saryu	24 – 28 May	Penang, Malaysia	^[71]
Eastern Naval Command	South Indian Ocean and South China Sea – Rear Admiral Ajendra Bahadur Singh INS Ranvir – Captain Jaswinder Singh INS Satpura – Captain Hari Krishnan^[72] INS Kamorta – Commander Manoj Kumar Jha INS Shakti	INS Satpura INS Kamorta	18 – 26 May	Singapore	IMDEX and SIMBEX-15^[73]^[74]
		INS Ranvir INS Shakti	22 – 26 May	Singapore
		INS Ranvir INS Shakti	31 May – 4 June	Jakarta, Indonesia	^[75]
		INS Ranvir INS Satpura INS Kamorta INS Shakti	17 – 21 June	Kuantan, Malaysia	^[76]
		INS Satpura INS Kamorta	4 – 6 June	Fremantle, Australia	^[75]^[77]^[78]
		INS Ranvir INS Kamorta	23 – 26 June	Sihanoukville, Cambodia	^[79]
		INS Satpura INS Shakti	28 – 30 June	Sattahip, Thailand	^[80]
Western Naval Command	Seychelles' National Day celebrations INS Teg – Captain AY Sardesai	INS Teg	26 June – 9 July	Port Victoria, Seychelles	^[81]
Western Naval Command	Visit to Iran INS Betwa – Captain KM Ramakrishnan INS Beas – Captain Deepak Bhatia	INS Betwa INS Beas	28 July – 1 August	Bandar Abbas, Iran	^[82]
Eastern Naval Command	AUSINDEX 2015 – Rear Admiral Ajendra Bahadur Singh INS Ranvijay INS Shivalik INS Shakti	INS Ranvijay INS Shivalik INS Shakti	11 – 16 September	Visakhapatnam, India	^[83]
Western Naval Command	Persian Gulf INS Delhi INS Tabar INS Trishul INS Deepak	INS Delhi INS Tabar INS Trishul INS Deepak	5 – 8 September	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	^[84]
		INS Tabar INS Deepak	9 – 12 September	Manama, Bahrain	^[85]
		INS Delhi INS Trishul	10 – 13 September	Jubail, Saudi Arabia	^[86]
		INS Tabar INS Deepak	13 – 16 September	Kuwait City, Kuwait	^[87]
		INS Delhi INS Trishul	14 – 17 September	Doha, Qatar	^[88]
		INS Delhi INS Tabar INS Trishul INS Deepak	19 – 22 September	Muscat, Oman	^[89]
Eastern Naval Command	North West Pacific region and South China Sea INS Sahyadri – Captain Kunal Singh Rajkumar	INS Sahyadri	2 – 5 October	Danang, Vietnam	^[90]
			23 – 37 October	Incheon, South Korea	^[91]
			2 – 4 November	Manila, Philippines	^[92]
Western Naval Command	West Asia, Africa and Europe INS Trikand – Captain Vinay Kalia	INS Trikand	10 – 13 August	Djibouti, Djibouti	^[93]
			19 – 23 August	Haifa, Israel	^[94]
			5 – 11 September	Devonport, United Kingdom	Konkan 2015^[95]
			26 – 28 September	Toulon, France	^[96]
			4 – 6 October	Istanbul, Turkey	^[97]
			11 – 13 October	Safaga, Egypt	^[98]
Andaman & Nicobar Command	India-Indonesian CORPAT-2015 26th Edition INS Saryu	INS Saryu	1 – 21 October	Port Belawan, Indonesia	^[99]
	SLINEX-2015 4th Edition INS Kora – Commander Ashok Rao INS Kirpan – Commander Abraham Samuel INS Savitri – Commander Prashant Negi	INS Kora INS Kirpan INS Savitri	27 October – 1 November	Trincomalee, Sri Lanka	^[100]
	Hydro-graphic survey INS Darshak	INS Darshak	8 November – 8 December	Port Victoria, Seychelles	^[101]

List of deployments (2016–20)

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Fleet	Deployment	Ships	Date	Port Visited	Notes and References
2016
Western Naval Command	Exercise Naseem Al Bahr X INS Trikand INS Trishul	INS Trikand INS Trishul	22 – 27 January	Goa, India	^[102]
Western Naval Command	Visit to Sri Lanka – Rear Admiral Ravneet Singh^[103] INS Vikramaditya – Captain Krishna Swaminathan INS Mysore – Captain M Paul Samuel INS Deepak – Captain Sujit Kumar Chhetri	INS Vikramaditya INS Mysore INS Deepak	21 – 23 January	Colombo, Sri Lanka	^[103]
Western Naval Command		INS Vikramaditya INS Mysore INS Deepak	15 – 18 February	Male, Maldives	^[104]
Southern Naval Command	Indo-Myanmar CORPAT 2016 INS Saryu – Commander Sreekumar Pillai INS Bitra	INS Saryu INS Bitra	17 – 19 February	Yangon, Myanmar	^[105]
Western Naval Command	IBSAMAR V INS Mumbai INS Trishul INS Shalki	INS Mumbai INS Trishul INS Shalki	19 – 26 February	Goa, India	^[106]
Western Naval Command	Mauritius National Day celebrations^[107] INS Tabar – Captain Ashutosh Ridhorkar	INS Tabar	10–12 March	Port Louis, Mauritius	^[107]
Eastern Naval Command & Andaman & Nicobar Command	Exercise Jal Prahar 2016 INS Jalashwa INS Airavat INS Kumbhir INS Guldar LCU 36, 38 & 39	INS Jalashwa INS Airavat INS Kumbhir INS Guldar LCU 36, 38 & 39	27 March – 18 April 2016	Andaman & Nicobar Islands, India	^[108]^[109]
Western Naval Command	DIMDEX 2016 INS Beas – Captain Deepak Bhatia	INS Beas	28 March – 2 April	Doha, Qatar
Southern Naval Command	South East Asia – Vice Admiral Girish Luthra INS Tir – Captain S.R. Ayyar INS Sujata INS Sudarshini ICGS Varuna	INS Tir INS Sujata INS Sudarshini ICGS Varuna	4 – 8 April	Phuket, Thailand	^[110]
Southern Naval Command		INS Tir INS Sujata ICGS Varuna	15 – 18 April	Colombo, Sri Lanka	^[111]
Andaman & Nicobar Command	Indo-Thai CORPAT-2016 22nd Edition^[112] INS Karmuk – Commodore Girish Kumar Garg	INS Karmuk	19 – 27 April	Andaman Sea	^[112]
Andaman & Nicobar Command	India-Indonesian CORPAT-2016 27th Edition^[113] INS Karmuk – Commodore Girish Kumar Garg	INS Karmuk	29 April – 16 May	Port Belawan, Indonesia	^[113]
	ASEAN ADMM Plus INS Airavat – Commander Jayant Mahadik	INS Airavat	1 – 9 May	Brunei	^[114]
Western Naval Command	Anti-piracy patrol in Gulf of Aden INS Sharda	INS Sharda	2 May	Duqm, Oman	^[115]^[116]
Western Naval Command	Persian Gulf – Rear Admiral Ravneet Singh^[117] INS Delhi – Captain Sandeep Singh Sandhu^[117] INS Tarkash – Captain Pradeep Singh^[117] INS Deepak – Captain Sujit Kumar Chhetri^[117]	INS Delhi INS Tarkash INS Deepak	12–15 May	Kuwait City, Kuwait	^[118]^[119]
			18–19 May	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	^[120]
			21–24 May	Muscat, Oman	^[117]
Eastern Naval Command	South China Sea and the Western Pacific Ocean – Rear Admiral S. V. Bhokare^[121] INS Satpura – Captain A. N. Pramod^[122]^[123] INS Sahyadri – Captain K S Rajkumar^[124] INS Kirch – Commander Sharad Sinsunwal^[124] INS Shakti – Captain Gagan Kaushal^[124]	INS Sahyadri INS Shakti	30 May – 2 June	Subic Bay, Philippines	^[125]^[126]^[127]
		INS Satpura INS Kirch	30 May – 3 June	Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam	^[123]
		INS Sahyadri INS Kirch INS Shakti	14–17 June	Sasebo, Japan	Malabar 2016^[128]
			21–25 June	Busan, South Korea	^[129]^[130]
			27 June – 1 July	Vladivostok, Russia	^[131]^[132]
		INS Satpura	30 June – 4 August	Hawaii, United States	25th edition of the RIMPAC Exercise^[133]^[134]
		INS Sahyadri INS Kirch INS Shakti	15 – 18 July	Port Klang, Malaysia	^[124]
		INS Satpura	13 – 15 August	Port Majuro, Marshall Islands	^[135]^[136]
			18 – 20 August	Pohnpei, Micronesia	^[137]
			31 August – 3 September	Singapore	^[138]^[139]
Western Naval Command	East Africa and the Southern Indian Ocean – Rear Admiral Ravneet Singh^[140] INS Kolkata – Captain Rahul Vilas Gokhale^[141] INS Trikand – Captain Arjun Dev Nair^[141] INS Aditya – Captain Vidyanshu Srivastava^[140]	INS Kolkata INS Aditya	28 – 30 August	Port Victoria, Seychelles	Enhance defence ties with the Seychelles People Defense Forces^[142]^[143]
		INS Trikand	31 August-3 September	Antsirananna, Madagascar	Relief material for people affected by bush fires.^[144]^[145]
		INS Kolkata INS Aditya	1 – 4 September	Port Louis, Mauritius	^[146]^[147]^[148]
		INS Trikand	6 – 9 September	Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	^[149]^[150]
		INS Kolkata INS Aditya	10 – 13 September	Mombasa, Kenya	^[151]^[152]
		INS Trikand	17 – 20 September	Maputo, Mozambique	^[153]
		INS Kolkata INS Trikand INS Aditya	20 – 23 September	Durban, South Africa	^[154]^[155]
	South Western Pacific Ocean INS Sumitra – Commander KP Shreeshan	INS Sumitra	10 – 12 October	Surabaya, Indonesia	^[156]
			26 – 29 October	Suva, Fiji	^[157]
			4 – 7 November	Sydney, Australia	^[158]
			16 – 22 November	Auckland, New Zealand	^[159]
			6 – 9 December	Darwin, Australia	^[160]
			16 December	Jakarta, Indonesia
Andaman & Nicobar Command	India-Indonesian CORPAT-2016 28th Edition INS Karmuk – Commodore Girish Kumar Garg	INS Karmuk	10 – 27 October	Belawan, Indonesia	^[161]
Southern Naval Command	South East Asia – Vice Admiral AR Karve INS Tir – Captain DJ Revar INS Sujata INS Sudarshini ICGS Varuna	INS Tir INS Sujata INS Sudarshini ICGS Varuna	27 – 31 October	Phuket, Thailand	^[162]
			2 – 6 November	Yangon, Myanmar	^[163]
			11 – 15 November	Chittagong, Bangladesh	^[164]
	Hydro-graphic survey INS Darshak – Captain Peush Pawsey^[165]	INS Darshak	28 October – 29 November	Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	^[166]
		INS Darshak	3 December – 3 January	Port Louis, Mauritius	^[167]
Eastern Naval Command	SIMBEX 2016 – Rear Admiral Biswajit Dasgupta INS Ranvijay INS Kamorta Sindhugosh-class submarine	INS Ranvijay INS Kamorta Sindhugosh-class submarine	31 October – 5 November	Visakhapatnam, India	^[168]
	Southern Indian Ocean INS Shardul – Commander Abhishek Kumar	INS Shardul	8 – 10 November	Port Louis, Mauritius	^[169]
		INS Shardul	23 November	Port Victoria, Seychelles	^[170]
	Sailing race INSV Mhadei – Lt Commander Vartika Joshi	INSV Mhadei	9 November	Goa, India	^[171]
			23 December – 1 January	Cape Town, South Africa	^[172]
			May 2017	Goa, India
Western Naval Command	Konkan 2016		5 – 16 December	Mumbai, India	^[173]
Eastern Naval Command	Operation Madad – Vice Admiral HCS Bisht INS Shivalik INS Kadmatt	INS Shivalik INS Kadmatt	12 December	Chennai, India	HADR Operation for Cyclone Vardah^[174]
Eastern Naval Command	Indra 2016 INS Ranvir INS Satpura INS Kamorta	INS Ranvir INS Satpura INS Kamorta	14 – 21 December	Visakhapatnam, India	^[175]
Western Naval Command	PASSEX with Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force INS Trishul	INS Trishul	22 December	Goa, India	^[176]^[177]
	Exercise Sagar Kavach		15 – 17 December	Kerala & Lakshdweep, India	Joint Exercise with other agencies^[178]
Eastern Naval Command & Andaman & Nicobar Command	Exercise Jal Prahar – Rear Admiral Biswajit Dasgupta INS Jalashwa INS Gharial INS Cheetah	INS Jalashwa INS Gharial INS Cheetah	22 December	Kakinada, India	Amphibious exercise with 108 Mountain Brigade and 91 Infantry Brigade^[179]^[180]
2017
Eastern Naval Command & Western Naval Command	Exercise Taiyaar 2017		January		^[181]
Eastern Naval Command & Western Naval Command	TROPEX 2017 – Admiral Sunil Lanba 60 ships 5 submarines 70 naval aircraft		24 January – 23 February	Arabian Sea and North Central Indian Ocean	A month long exercise with Indian Coast Guard, Indian Army and Indian Air Force^[182]^[183]
	IDEX 2017 & NAVDEX 2017 INS Sunayna	INS Sunayna	18 February – 12 March	Abu Dabhi, UAE	^[184]
Eastern Naval Command	Hydro-graphic survey INS Darshak – Captain Peush Pawsey	INS Darshak	3 March – 12 May	Colombo & Galle, Sri Lanka	^[185]^[186]^[187]
Southern Naval Command	Southern Indian Ocean – Vice Admiral AR Karve INS Tir INS Sujata INS Shardul INS Sudarshini ICGS Sarathi	INS Tir INS Sujata INS Sudarshini ICGS Sarathi	11 March	Port Louis, Mauritius	^[188]
			18 March	Port Victoria, Seychelles	^[189]
			29 March – 2 April	Male, Maldives	^[190]
		INS Sudarshini	5 March – 4 April	Port Victoria, Seychelles	^[181]
Andaman & Nicobar Command	Indo-Myanmar CORPAT 2017 – 5th Edition INS Karmuk – Commodre Ashutosh Ridhorkar INS Bangaram	INS Karmuk INS Bangaram	12 – 18 March	Yangon, Myanmar	^[191]^[192]
	Southern Indian Ocean EEZ Surveillance INS Shardul – Commander Rohit Mishra	INS Shardul	8 – 26 March	Port Louis, Mauritius	^[193]
		INS Shardul	27 March – Mid April	Port Victoria, Seychelles	^[193]
	Joint Amphibious Workup INS Jalashwa INS Gharial 91 Infantry Brigade (Indian Army)	INS Jalashwa INS Gharial	19 – 31 March	Karwar, India	^[181]
Andaman & Nicobar Command	LIMA 2017 INS Kora	INS Kora	20 – 26 March	Langkawi, Malaysia	^[181]
	Assistance to MV MSC Daniela INS Darshak INS Gharial ICGS Shoor	INS Darshak INS Gharial ICGS Shoor	4 – 6 April	Colombo, Sri Lanka	^[181]
Andaman & Nicobar Command	Indo-Thai CORPAT-2016 24th Edition^[194]		9 – 21 April	Port Blair, India	^[195]^[196]
Western Naval Command	West Africa and Mediterranean Sea – Rear Admiral R. B. Pandit INS Mumbai – Captain Sunil Kumar Roy^[197] INS Tarkash – Captain Rituraj Sahu^[198] INS Trishul – Captain S Sachdeva^[199] INS Aditya	INS Mumbai INS Trishul INS Tarkash INS Aditya	18 – 21 April	Souda Bay, Greece	PASSEX with Hpellenic Navy^[200]^[201]
		INS Mumbai INS Trishul INS Aditya	24 – 30 April	Toulon, France	VARUNA 2017 with French Navy^[202]
		INS Mumbai INS Trishul INS Aditya		Valencia, Spain	^[203]
		INS Tarkash	2 – 5 May	Plymouth, United Kingdom	KONKAN 2017 with Royal Navy^[204]^[205]^[206]^[207]
		INS Mumbai INS Trishul INS Aditya	5 – 8 May	Alexandria, Egypt	^[208]
		INS Tarkash	7 – 10 May	London, United Kingdom	^[209]^[210]
		INS Mumbai INS Trishul INS Aditya	9 -12 May	Haifa, Israel	^[211]^[212]^[213]
		INS Tarkash	14 – 17 May	Lisbon, Portugal	^[214]
		INS Mumbai INS Trishul INS Aditya	16 – 20 May	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia	^[215]
		INS Tarkash	19 May	Casablanca, Morocco	^[216]
		INS Tarkash	31 May	Lagos, Nigeria	^[217]^[218]^[219]
		INS Tarkash	10 June	Luanda, Angola	^[220]^[221]
		INS Tarkash	15 – 18 June	Walvis Bay, Namibia	^[222]^[223]
		INS Tarkash	21 – 24 June	Cape Town, South Africa	^[224]^[225]^[226]^[227]
		INS Tarkash	3 – 6 July	Port Louis, Mauritius	^[228]^[229]
Andaman & Nicobar Command	India-Indonesian CORPAT-2017 29th Edition		9 – 12 May	Port Blair, India	^[230]
Andaman & Nicobar Command	India-Indonesian CORPAT-2017 29th Edition		22 – 25 May	Belawan, Indonesia	^[230]^[231]
Eastern Naval Command	INS Rajput – Captain R A Shah	INS Rajput	11 – 13 May	Yangon, Myanmar	Operational Turn around (OTR)^[232]
Eastern Naval Command	South East Asia – Rear Admiral Biswajit Dasgupta^[233] INS Shivalik – Captain R Vinod Kumar INS Sahyadri – Captain Anil Jaggi INS Kamorta – Commander Vipin Gupta INS Jyoti – Captain S Shyam Sundar	INS Sahyadri INS Kamorta	11 – 24 May	Singapore	International Maritime Review and SIMBEX 2017^[234]
		INS Shivalik INS Jyoti	14 – 19 May	Kuantan, Malaysia	^[235]
		INS Shivalik INS Jyoti	21 – 24 May	Singapore	SIMBEX 2017^[236]
		INS Sahyadri INS Kamorta INS Shivalik INS Jyoti	26 – 30 May	Jakarta, Indonesia	^[237]
		INS Sahyadri INS Kamorta INS Shivalik INS Jyoti	1 – 5 June	Surabaya, Indonesia	^[237]^[238]
		INS Sahyadri	12 – 15 June	Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea	^[239]
		INS Kamorta INS Shivalik INS Jyoti	13 – 17 June	Fremantle, Australia	AUSINDEX 2017^[240]^[241]^[242]
Western Naval Command	Joint Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) Exercise – Karavali Karunya		18 – 20 May	Karwar, India	^[243]^[244]
	Maria3 landing craft search INS Kirch	INS Kirch	20 May	Maldives	^[245]^[246]^[247]
Southern Naval Command	Training Mission INS Sumedha	INS Sumedha	21 – 24 May	Colombo, Sri Lanka	^[248]
Eastern Naval Command	HADR to Sri Lanka INS Kirch INS Jalashwa INS Shardul	INS Kirch INS Jalashwa INS Shardul	27 May	Colombo, Sri Lanka	^[249]^[250]^[251]
Eastern Naval Command	SAR during Cyclone Mora in Bay of Bengal INS Sumitra – Commander K P Shreesan INS Gharial	INS Sumitra	30 May – 2 June	Chittagong, Bangladesh	^[252]^[253]
		INS Gharial	31 May – 2 June	Chittagong, Bangladesh	^[254]
		INS Sumitra	6 – 8 June	Yangon, Myanmar	^[255]^[256]
Western Naval Command	Deployment to Mauritius EEZ INS Teg – Captain Nirbhay Bapna	INS Teg	3 – 6 June	Port Louis, Mauritius	^[257]
Southern Naval Command	INSV Tarini – Lieutenant Commander Vartika Joshi	INSV Tarini	6 June	Port Louis, Mauritius	^[258]
Western Naval Command	SAR for Mexican Sail Training Ship (STS) Cuauhtemoc INS Teg – Captain Nirbhay Bapna INS Mysore	INS Mysore INS Teg	12 – 13 June	Arabian Sea	^[259]
Southern Naval Command	Seychelles National Day Celebrations INS Sunyana	INS Sunyana	26 – 30 June	Port Victoria, Seychelles	^[260]^[261]
Southern Naval Command	PASSEX with HMAS Newcastle INS Sunyana	INS Sunyana	7 July	Kochi, India	^[262]^[263]
Eastern Naval Command	Malabar 2017 INS Vikramaditya INS Ranvir INS Shivalik INS Sahyadri INS Kamorta INS Kora INS Kirpan Sindhughosh class submarine INS Jyoti	INS Vikramaditya INS Ranvir INS Shivalik INS Sahyadri INS Kamorta INS Kora INS Kirpan Sindhughosh class submarine INS Jyoti	10 – 17 July	Chennai, India	^[264]
Eastern Naval Command	INS Ranvir – Captain R Ashok	INS Ranvir	24 – 27 July	Chittagong, Bangladesh	^[265]^[266]
	Guangzhou Nansha International Regatta		28 – 30 July	Guangzhou city, China	^[267]^[268]
Western Naval Command	Anti-Piracy Patrol INS Tabar	INS Tabar	1 August	Gulf of Aden	^[269]
Eastern Naval Command	SLINEX 2017 INS Gharial INS Kora	INS Gharial INS Kora	7 – 14 September	Visakhapatnam, India	^[270]^[271]
Southern Naval Command	Navika Sagar Parikrama INSV Tarini – Lt. Commander Vartika Joshi	INSV Tarini	10 September	Goa, India	^[272]^[273]
			23 October – 5 November	Fremantle, Australia	^[274]^[275]
			29 November – 12 December	Lyttleton, New Zealand	^[276]
			22 January – 4 February (2018)	Port Stanley, Falkland Islands	^[277]^[278]
			2 – 14 March (2018)	Cape Town, South Africa	^[279]
			18 – 26 April (2018)	Port Louis, Mauritius	Unscheduled repair stop^[280]
			21 May (2018)	Goa, India	^[281]
Eastern Naval Command	East and South-East Asia INS Satpura – Captain Rahul Shankar INS Kadmatt – Commander Nithin Cariappa	INS Satpura INS Kadmatt	14 – 17 September	Singapore	^[282]^[283]^[284]^[285]
			23 – 26 September	Haiphong, Vietnam	^[286]^[287]
			3 – 6 October	Manila, Philippines	^[288]^[289]
			12 – 15 October	Sasebo, Japan	^[290]^[291]
			18 – 29 October	Vladivostok, Russia	INDRA 2017^[292]^[293]^[294]
			6 November	Sea of Japan	PASSEX with USN^[295]
			17 – 22 November	Pattaya, Thailand	ASEAN IFR^[296]^[297]^[298]
		INS Kadmatt	24 – 26 November	Sihanoukville, Cambodia	^[299]
		INS Satpura	25 – 28 November	Muara, Brunei	^[300]^[301]
		INS Kadmatt	30 November – 2 December	Belawan, Indonesia	^[302]
		INS Satpura INS Kadmatt	2 – 5 December	Malaysia	HADR exercise and PASSEX^[303]^[304]
Western Naval Command	Western Arabian Sea and Southern Indian Ocean INS Kochi INS Mumbai INS Shishumar	INS Mumbai INS Shishumar	20 September	Duqm, Oman	^[305]^[306]^[307]
Eastern Naval Command	Operation Insaniyat – HADR Bangladesh for Rohingya crisis INS Gharial – Commander Suraj J Rebeira	INS Gharial	25 – 29 September	Chittagong, Bangladesh	^[308]^[309]^[310]^[311]
Western Naval Command	Northern Arabian Sea INS Trishul	INS Trishul	5 October	Arabian Sea	^[312]^[313]
Southern Naval Command	South-East Asia INS Tir – Captain DJ Revar INS Sujata INS Sudarshini INS Shardul ICGS Sarathi	INS Tir INS Sujata INS Shardul ICGS Sarathi	3 – 12 October	Penang, Malaysia	^[314]
			18 – 22 October	Jakarta, Indonesia	^[315]
			1 – 6 November	Colombo, Sri Lanka	^[316]^[317]
		INS Sudarshini	3 October – 7 November	Jakarta, Indonesia	^[181]
Andaman & Nicobar Command	INS Sumedha	INS Sumedha	8 – 15 October	Male, Maldives	^[318]^[319]
Andaman & Nicobar Command	India-Indonesian CORPAT-2017 30th Edition INS Sukanya	INS Sukanya	24 October – 5 November	Belawan, Indonesia	^[320]^[321]^[322]
Southern Naval Command	Hydrographic Survey of Southern and Western coast INS Sutlej	INS Sutlej	26 October – 21 December	Colombo, Sri Lanka	^[323]^[324]^[325]
Western Naval Command	EEZ Surveillance INS Tarkash	INS Tarkash	21 October – 1 November	Port Victoria, Seychelles	^[319]
Western Naval Command	EEZ Surveillance INS Tarkash	INS Tarkash	2 – 9 November	Port Louis, Mauritius	^[326]
Southern Naval Command	Hydrographic Survey of Pemba Island INS Sarvekshak – Captain Peush Pawsey	INS Sarvekshak	15 November	Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	^[327]^[328]
Western Naval Command	National Day Celebrations and Presence-Surveillance mission INS Trikand	INS Trikand	18 – 25 November	Muscat, Oman	^[329]^[330]^[331]
Andaman & Nicobar Command	DANX		20 – 24 November	Andaman & Nicobar Islands, India	^[332]
Eastern Naval Command	IMMSAREX INS Ranvir INS Sahyadri INS Gharial INS Sukanya	INS Ranvir INS Sahyadri INS Gharial INS Sukanya	26 – 28 November	Chittagong, Bangladesh	^[333]
Southern Naval Command and Western Naval Command	HADR and SAR for Cyclone Okhi INS Kolkata INS Chennai INS Mumbai INS Trikand INS Shardul INS Sharda INS Subhadra INS Nireekshak INS Jamuna INS Kabra INS Kalpeni INS Koswari INS Sagardhwani ICGS Samar ICGS Sarathi ICGS Sanklap ICGS Samrat ICGS Shoor ICGS Abhinav ICGS Aadesh ICGS Abhiraaj ICGS Vaibhav ICGS Kasturba Gandhi	INS Kolkata INS Chennai INS Mumbai INS Trikand INS Shardul INS Sharda INS Subhadra INS Nireekshak INS Jamuna INS Kabra INS Kalpeni INS Koswari INS Sagardhwani ICGS Samar ICGS Sarathi ICGS Sanklap ICGS Samrat ICGS Shoor ICGS Abhinav ICGS Aadesh ICGS Abhiraaj ICGS Kasturba Gandhi ICGS Kasturba Gandhi	30 November – 10 December	Vizhinjam and Lakshadweep, India	^[334]^[335]^[336]^[337]^[338]^[339]^[340]^[341]
Western Naval Command	Anti-piracy deployment in Gulf of Aden INS Trishul – Captain Ajay Shukla	INS Trishul	4 December	Salalah, Oman	^[342]
Western Naval Command	Persian Gulf INS Teg – Captain Nirbahy Bapna INS Trikand – Captain Upal Kundu INS Shankush	INS Teg INS Trikand INS Shankush	17 – 23 December	Muscat, Oman	Exercise Naseem Al Bahr XI^[343]^[344]
Western Naval Command		INS Teg INS Trikand	23 – 26 December	Abu Dabhi, UAE	^[345]
Western Naval Command	PASSEX with French Navy INS Tarkash	INS Tarkash	24 December	Goa, India	^[346]
	Hydrographic Survey INS Sarvekshak	INS Sarvekshak	30 December	Port Louis, Mauritius	^[347]
2018
Western Naval Command	Operational Exercise INS Vikramaditya INS Kolkata INS Deepak	INS Vikramaditya INS Kolkata INS Deepak	8 – 9 January	Arabian sea	^[348]^[349]
Eastern Naval Command, Western Naval Command, Andaman & Nicobar Command and Indian Coast Guard	Eastern Naval Command Operational Readiness Exercise (Encore)		January – 7 February	Indian Ocean Region	^[350]
Western Naval Command	SAR operation for ONGC Helicopter INS Teg INS Tarasa T11 T45 ICGS Samudra Prahari ICGS Agrim ICGS Achook	INS Teg INS Tarasa T11 T45 ICGS Samudra Prahari ICGS Agrim ICGS Achook	13 January	Mumbai High North	^[351]^[352]^[353]
Andaman & Nicobar Command	India-Thai CORPAT-2018 25th Edition – Commodore A Ridhorkar INS Saryu – Commander Syed Qais Sayat	INS Saryu	23 – 31 January	Phuket, Thailand	^[354]^[355]^[356]^[357]
Eastern Naval Command	PASSEX with Bangladesh Navy INS Ranjit INS Khukri	INS Ranjit INS Khukri	12 – 14 February	Chennai, India	^[358]
Western Naval Command and Eastern Naval Command	Paschim Lehar – Tri service exercise with Indian Air Force, Indian Army and Indian Coast Guard INS Vikramaditya – Captain Ajay Kochhar^[359] Kolkata-class destroyers Veer-class corvettes	INS Vikramaditya	12 February – 1 March	Arabian sea	^[360]^[361]^[362]
Southern Naval Command	Southern Indian Ocean INS Tir INS Sujata ICGS Sarathi	INS Tir INS Sujata ICGS Sarathi	20 – 28 February	Port Victoria, Seychelles	^[363]^[364]
			10 March	Port Louis, Mauritius	^[365]
			20 March	Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	^[366]
Andaman & Nicobar Command	MILAN 2018 INS Sahyadri – Captain Anil Jaggi INS Kirch INS Kulish INS Saryu INS Kesari INS Jyoti INLCU 51	INS Sahyadri INS Kirch INS Kulish INS Saryu INS Kesari INS Jyoti INLCU 51	6 – 13 March	Port Blair, India	^[367]^[368]
Western Naval Command	Persian Gulf INS Kolkata – Captain Susheel Menon INS Gomati – Captain Ravi Kumar Dhingra	INS Kolkata	11 – 15 March	Doha, Qatar	DIMDEX and PASSEX with Qatari Emiri Navy^[369]^[370]
Western Naval Command		INS Kolkata INS Gomati	18 – 22 March	Port Zayed, UAE	Gulf Star 1 naval exercise^[371]
Andaman & Nicobar Command	Indo-Myanmar CORPAT 6th Edition INS Kulish INS Baratang	INS Kulish INS Baratang	14 – 18 March	Port Blair, India	^[372]^[373]
Western Naval Command	Varuna 2018 (Phase I) with French Navy INS Mumbai INS Trikand INS Kalvari	INS Mumbai INS Trikand INS Kalvari	15 – 24 March	Goa, India	^[374]^[375]
Eastern Naval Command	INMEX 1st Edition with Myanmar Navy INS Sahyadri – Captain Anil Jaggi INS Kamorta Sindhughosh-class submarine	INS Sahyadri INS Kamorta	25 March – 3 April	Visakhapatnam, India	^[376]
Western Naval Command	Training Exercise with US Navy INS Tarkash	INS Tarkash	26 March	Persian Gulf	^[377]
Western Naval Command	Operational exercise INS Vikramaditya INS Kolkata INS Chennai INS Teg INS Trishul INS Vidyut INS Kalvari	INS Vikramaditya INS Kolkata INS Chennai INS Teg INS Trishul INS Vidyut INS Kalvari	4 April	Arabian sea	^[378]
Southern Naval Command	Exercise Chakravath – HADR		5 – 6 April	Kochi, India	^[379]^[380]
Eastern Naval Command	Varuna 2018 (Phase II) with French Navy INS Rana INS Kirch	INS Rana INS Kirch	7 – 8 April	Chennai, India	^[381]^[382]
Eastern Naval Command	DefExpo 2018 INS Sahyadri – Captain Anil Jaggi INS Kamorta INS Kirch INS Airavat INS Sumitra	INS Sahyadri INS Kamorta INS Kirch INS Airavat INS Sumitra	13 – 15 April	Chennai, India	^[383]^[384]
Southern Naval Command	Lokayan 2018 INS Tarangini – Commander Rahul Mehta	INS Tarangini	11 April	Kochi, India	^[385]^[386]^[387]
			22 April	Salalah, Oman	^[388]
			6 – 9 May	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia	^[389]^[390]
			27 May	Valletta, Malta	^[391]
			4 – 6 June	Lisbon, Portugal	^[392]
			14 June	Bordeaux, France	Tall Regatta Ship Festival^[393]
			13 July	Sunderland, United Kingdom	Tall Ship Races^[394]
				Esbjerg, Denmark	^[395]
				Stavanger, Norway
				Harlingen, Netherlands
				Amsterdam, Netherlands
				Le Havre, France
			30 October	Kochi, India	^[396]
Western Naval Command	Southern Indian Ocean INS Mumbai INS Trikand	INS Mumbai INS Trikand	23 April	Port Victoria, Seychelles	^[397]
			1 May	Port Louis, Mauritius	^[398]
			1 – 7 May	Réunion, France	Varuna 2018 (Phase II\|) with French Navy^[399]^[400]
			13 May	Moroni, Comoros	^[401]
			18 May	Antsiranana, Madagascar	^[402]
Southern Naval Command	Exercise Sagar Kavach		24 – 26 April	Kochi, India	^[403]
	Exercise Ekatha 2018 with MNDF MARCOS		28 April – 15 May	Maafilhafushi, Maldives	^[404]
Eastern Naval Command	East and South-East Asia – Rear Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi INS Sahyadri – Captain Shantanu Jha INS Kamorta – Commander S Chatterjee INS Shakti – Captain Joglekar	INS Sahyadri INS Kamorta INS Shakti	6 – 8 May	Singapore	^[405]
		INS Sahyadri INS Shakti	13 – 16 May	Sattahip, Thailand	^[406]
		INS Kamorta	14 – 17 May	Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia	PASSEX with Royal Malaysian Navy^[407]^[408]^[409]
		INS Sahyadri INS Kamorta INS Shakti	21 – 25 May	Da Nang, Vietnam	^[410]
		INS Sahyadri INS Kamorta INS Shakti	7 – 15 June	Guam, United States	Malabar 2018 exercise with US Navy and JMSDF^[411]^[412]
		INS Kamorta INS Jyoti	24- 26 June	Makassar, Indonesia	^[413]
		INS Sahyadri	27 June – 2 August	Pearl Harbor, United States	Exercise RIMPAC 2018^[414]^[415]
			13 – 16 August	Suva, Fiji	^[416]^[417]
			29 August – 15 September	Darwin, Australia	Exercise Kakadu 2018^[418]
Andaman & Nicobar Command	Economic Zone (EEZ) Surveillance (9–17 May) INS Sumedha	INS Sumedha	11 -12 May	Male, Maldives	^[404]
Andaman & Nicobar Command	India-Indonesian CORPAT-2018 31st Edition – Commodore Ashutosh Ridhorkar INS Kulish – Commander Deepak Bali	INS Kulish	24 – 25 May	Port Blair, India	^[419]
Andaman & Nicobar Command		INS Kulish	6 – 9 June	Belawan, Indonesia	^[419]
Eastern Naval Command	South east Asia deployment INS Satpura	INS Satpura	2 June	Singapore	^[420]^[421]
Southern Naval Command	Operation Nistar – HADR for cyclone Mekenu INS Sunayna	INS Sunayna	3 June	Socotra, Yemen	^[422]
Andaman & Nicobar Command	India-Thai CORPAT-2018 26th Edition INS Kesari	INS Kesari	16 – 22 June	Port Blair, India	^[423]^[424]
Eastern Naval Command	India-Bangladesh CORPAT-2018 1st Edition INS Satpura INS Kadmatt	INS Satpura INS Kadmatt	27 June	Chittagong, Bangladesh	^[425]
Western Naval Command	INS Trikand – Captain Upal Kundu	INS Trikand	7 – 9 July	Colombo, Sri Lanka	^[426]^[427]
Andaman & Nicobar Command	Malacca straits operational deployment INS Sumitra – Commander Rajesh Rana	INS Sumitra	11 July	Sabang, Indonesia	^[428]
Western Naval Command	Anti-piracy patrol in Gulf of Aden under Combined Task Force INS Teg	INS Teg	16 July	Djibouti, Djibouti	^[429]^[430]
Western Naval Command	Arabian Sea operational deployment INS Tarkash	INS Tarkash	18 July	Mombasa, Kenya	^[431]
Western Naval Command	Arabian Sea operational deployment INS Tarkash	INS Tarkash	24 – 26 July	Bandar Abbas, Iran	^[432]
Eastern Naval Command	Operational Turn-around INS Khanjar – Commander V Shirdikant	INS Khanjar	18 – 20 August	Yangon, Myanmar	^[433]^[434]
Eastern Naval Command	SLINEX 2018 – Rear Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi INS Kirch INS Sumitra INS Cora Divh	INS Kirch INS Sumitra INS Cora Divh	7 – 13 September	Trincomalee, Sri Lanka	^[435]
Western Naval Command	East Africa and the Southern Indian Ocean – Vice Admiral Girish Luthra INS Kolkata – Captain Susheel Menon INS Tarkash – Captain Ajay D. Theophilus	INS Kolkata INS Tarkash	15 – 18 September	Mombasa, Kenya	^[436]^[437]
Western Naval Command		INS Kolkata INS Tarkash	1 -13 October	Simon's Town, South Africa	IBSAMAR IV^[438]
Western Naval Command	West Asia INS Mumbai – Captain Amit Srivastava	INS Mumbai	19 – 21 September	Hamad, Qatar	^[439]
Eastern Naval Command	Southern Indian Ocean deployment and Golden Globe Rescue Mission INS Satpura – Captain Alok Ananda INS Jyoti	INS Satpura INS Jyoti	21 September – 2 October	South Indian Ocean	^[440]
Andaman & Nicobar Command	Indo-Myanmar CORPAT 7th Edition INS Kulish – Commander Deepak Bali INS Battimalv – Lt Commander M C Chandeep	INS Kulish INS Battimalv	24 – 26 September	Yangon, Myanmar	^[441]
Southern Naval Command	INS Sudarshini INS Sujata INS Sarathi INS Shardul INS Tir	INS Sudarshini INS Sujata INS Sarathi INS Shardul INS Tir	30 September – 2 October	Singapore	^[442]
Eastern Naval Command	Operational deployment to the North West Pacific INS Rana – Captain Atul Deswal	INS Rana	27 – 30 September	Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam	^[443]
			8 – 15 October	Jeju Naval Base, South Korea	IFR and PASSEX^[444]
			12 – 18 November	Surabaya, Indonesia	Exercise Samudra Shakti^[445]
Eastern Naval Command	JIMEX 18 – Rear Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi INS Satpura INS Kadmatt INS Shakti	INS Satpura INS Kadmatt INS Shakti	7 – 15 October	Visakhapatnam, India	^[446]
Southern Naval Command	Anti-piracy patrol in Gulf of Aden INS Sunayna – Commander Harish Srinivasan	INS Sunayna	11 October	Djibouti, Djibouti	^[447]^[448]
Southern Naval Command		INS Sunayna	18 November	Gulf of Aden	PASSEX with JMSDF^[449]
Eastern Naval Command	Operational deployment to Central Indian Ocean Region INS Rajput	INS Rajput	11 October	Colombo, Sri Lanka	^[450]
Andaman & Nicobar Command	India-Indonesian CORPAT-2018 32nd Edition – Commodore Ashutosh Ridhorkar INS Kulish – Commander Deepak Bali	INS Kulish	11 – 27 October	Belawan, Indonesia	^[451]
Eastern Naval Command	SIMBEX-2018 25th Edition – Rear Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi INS Ranvijay INS Satpura INS Sahyadri INS Shakti INS Kirch INS Kadmatt INS Sumedha INS Sukanya INS Sindhukirti	INS Ranvijay INS Satpura INS Sahyadri INS Shakti INS Kirch INS Kadmatt INS Sumedha INS Sukanya INS Sindhukirti	10 – 21 November	Port Blair and Visakhapatnam, India	^[452]
Western Naval Command	Konkan 2018 with Royal Navy INS Kolkata Submarine	INS Kolkata	28 November – 6 December	Goa, India	^[453]

List of deployments (2022–2025)

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Fleet	Deployment	Ships	Date	Port Visited	Notes and References
2022
Western Naval Command Eastern Naval Command	Maritime exercise	INS Trikand (F51) INS Sumitra	19–24 November		13th edition of Indo-Oman maritime exercise ‘Naseem Al Bahr’ (Sea Breeze) with RNOS Al-Seeb and Al-Shinas.^[454]
2023
Western Naval Command	Extended range deployment – Commander Divakar S.	INS Vagir	19 June – 20 August	Port of Colombo, Sri Lanka Fremantle, Australia	This is the longest ever deployment (7,000 km) for any Indian Submarine or Scorpène-class submarine in a single stretch.^[455]^[456]^[457]
2024
Western Naval Command	Friendly visit – Lieutenant Commander Ajith Mohan	INS Kabra	8 – 10 January	Port of Colombo, Sri Lanka	^[458]
Western Naval Command	Friendly visit – Commander Arunabh	INS Karanj	3 – 5 February	Port of Colombo, Sri Lanka	^[459]
Eastern Naval Command	Operational Deployment of the Eastern fleet to the South China Sea – Rear admiral Rajesh Dhankar	INS Delhi INS Kiltan INS Shakti	6 – 23 May	Singapore Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam Manila, Philippines Muara, Brunei	^[460]^[461]^[462]^[463]^[464]
Eastern Naval Command	Operational Deployment of the Eastern fleet to the South China Sea and Northern Pacific Ocean – Rear admiral Rajesh Dhankar	INS Shivalik	30 May – 20 August	Changi Naval Base, Singapore Yokosuka, Japan Hawaii, United States Guam	Participated in JIMEX 24 and RIMPAC 2024^[465]^[466]^[467]
Southern Naval Command	Foreign EEZ surveillance patrol – Commander Prabhat Ranjan Mishra	INS Sunayna	15 – 29 June	Port Victoria, Seychelles Port Louis, Mauritius	^[468]^[469]
Eastern Naval Command	Friendly visit and Passage Exercise (PASSEX) – Commander Prashant Kumar Mishra	INS Kamorta	20 – 23 June	Port of Trincomalee, Sri Lanka	^[470]
Eastern Naval Command	Maritime Partnership Exercise with the Bangladesh Navy	INS Ranvir	29 June	Chattogram, Bangladesh	^[471]
Western Naval Command	Operational Deployment of the Western fleet to the Africa and Europe – Captain MR Harish	INS Tabar	27 June – 6 September	Alexandria Port, Egypt Casablanca, Morocco Hamburg, Germany Saint Petersburg, Russia London, UK Gothenburg, Sweden Esbjerg, Denmark Málaga, Spain Toulon, France	^[472]^[473]^[474]^[475]^[476]^[477]^[478]^[479] Participated in Exercise Varuna 2024.^[480]
Western Naval Command	Friendly visit – Commander Rahul Patnaik	INS Shalki	2 – 4 August	Port of Colombo, Sri Lanka	^[481]^[482]
Eastern Naval Command	Friendly visit – Captain Sandeep Kumar	INS Mumbai	26 August	Port of Colombo, Sri Lanka	^[483]^[484]
Western Naval Command	Exercise Kakadu – Captain Ajay Kanwar	Boeing P-8I Neptune (aircraft)	8 – 20 September	RAAF Base Darwin, Australia	A P-8I aircraft from INAS 316 participated in 16th edition of Exercise Kakadu of Royal Australian Navy.^[485]
Western Naval Command	Indian Ocean Region deployment – Captain Jithu George	INS Talwar	22 September – 28 October	Mombasa, Kenya Simon's Town, South Africa (for Exercise IBSAMAR) Réunion, France	^[486]^[487]^[488]
Southern Naval Command	Long Range Training Deployment, Persian Gulf	First Training Squadron INS Tir (A86) INS Shardul (L16) ICGS Veera (35)	1–15 October	Bandar Abbas, Iran Muscat, Oman Port of Manama, Bahrain (Tir, Veera) Port Rashid, Dubai, UAE (Shardul)	^[489]^[490]^[491]
Western Naval Command	Maritime Bilateral Exercise	INS Vikramaditya INS Visakhapatnam	5–6 October	Arabian Sea	Bilateral exercise of CSGs India and Italy. Included ITS Cavour and ITS Alpino.^[492]^[493]^[494]
Eastern Naval Command	Maritime Multilateral Exercise	INS Delhi, INS Satpura, INS Kamorta, INS Kadmatt, Shishumar-class submarine, INS Shakti.	13–18 October	Bay of Bengal	Exercise Malabar 2024 with USS Dewey, JS Ariake, HMAS Stuart.^[495]^[496]
Western Naval Command	Maritime Bilateral Exercise	INS Trikand (F51)	13–18 October	Goa, India	14th edition of Indo-Oman maritime exercise ‘Naseem Al Bahr’ with RNOS Al-Seeb.^[497]
Southern Naval Command	Indian Ocean	INS Kalpeni (T75)	19 October	Port of Colombo, Sri Lanka	Port of Colombo, Sri Lanka
Eastern Naval Command	Maritime Bilateral Exercise	INS Shivalik	25–29 October	Visakhapatnam, India	31st edition of Singapore India Maritime Bilateral Exercise (SIMBEX) with RSS Tenacious.^[498]
Western Naval Command	Day at Sea – President of India Droupadi Murmu	15 frontline warships including INS Vikrant 3 Kalvari class 2 Shishumar class 1 Sindhughosh-class submarine	7 November	Goa, India	Carrier operations of MiG-29K, missile firing drills, submarine manoeuvres and flypasts by 30 aircraft.^[499]^[500]^[501]
Western Naval Command	Friendly visit – Commander Kapil Kumar	INS Vela	11–13 November	Port of Colombo, Sri Lanka	^[502]
Western Naval Command	Operational deployment Europe and Africa – Captain Peter Verghese	INS Tushil	17 December 2024 – 14 February 2025	2024 London, United Kingdom Casablanca, Morocco 2025 Port of Dakar, Senegal Lagos, Nigeria Durban, South Africa Port Victoria, Seychelles	^[503]^[504]^[505]^[506]^[507]^[508]
2025
Eastern Naval Command	Operational deployment – South Eastern Indian Ocean Region	INS Mumbai	January	Jakarta, Indonesia (18 Jan)	^[509]^[510]
Eastern Naval Command	Operational deployment – South Eastern Indian Ocean Region	INS Sahyadri	7 April	Port of Colombo, Sri Lanka	^[511]
Western Naval Command	Operational deployment – Operation Sindoor (CinC: Vice Admiral SJ Singh, Fleet Commander: Rear Admiral Rahul Gokhale)	36 frontline warships INS Vikrant (Captain B. S. Bains) 7 Kolkata and Visakhapatnam-class destroyers 7 frigates (including INS Tushil) 6 submarines	26 April – 30 May	Northern Arabian Sea	During Operation Sindoor, 36 warships were deployed including an Vikrant-led Carrier Battle Group with 8 to 10 warships.^[512]^[513] According to the DGNO, the Navy was prepared to strike Pakistan at any time including Karachi. The deployment materialised within 96 hours of 22 April's Pahalgam attack.^[514]
Western Naval Command	Operational deployment – Gulf of Oman	INS Tabar (F44) A submarine (initially) Boeing P-8I Neptune (initially)	9 June – early July	Northern Arabian Sea	Joint military exercise with UK CSG 25 on 9 and 10 June.^[515] Firefighting operations on Palau-flagged vessel MT Yi Cheng 6 on 29 and 30 June.^[516]
Western Naval Command	Operational deployment – South Western Indian Ocean Region	INS Teg (F45)	19 June – early July	Port Louis, Mauritius Port Victoria, Seychelles	^[517]^[518]
Western Naval Command	Operational deployment Europe and Africa – Captain Sridhar Tata	INS Tamal	1 July – August end	Port of Casablanca, Morocco Port of Naples, Italy Crete Naval Base, Souda Bay, Greece Jeddah Port, Saudi Arabia	^[519]^[520]^[521]^[522]
Eastern Naval Command	Operational deployment of the Eastern fleet to the South East Asia – Rear admiral Susheel Menon	INS Delhi (D61) INS Satpura (F48) INS Shakti (A57) INS Kiltan (P30)	Mid-July – mid August	Changi Naval Base, Singapore Da Nang Port, Vietnam Port of Manila, Philippines	^[523]^[524]^[525]Satpura participated in the 32nd edition of SIMBEX with the Singapore Armed Forces.^[526] The other ships also conducted the maiden joint sail and naval exercise with Philippine Navy.^[527]
Eastern Naval Command	Hydrographic operation – Captain N Dheeraj	INS Sandhayak	16 July – mid August	Port Klang, Malaysia Changi Naval Base, Singapore	^[528]^[529]
Eastern Naval Command	Formal visit to Srik Lanka and SLINEX participation – Captain KP Sreesan and Captain Chetan R Upadhyay	INS Rana (D52) INS Jyoti (A58)	11 August – August end	Port of Trincomalee, Sri Lanka Port of Colombo, Sri Lanka	^[530]^[531]^[532]
Eastern Naval Command	Operational deployment to the Indo-Pacific	INS Kadmatt (P29)	20 August – mid September	Surabaya, Indonesia Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea Suva, Fiji Makassar, Indonesia	^[533]^[534]^[535]^[536] Conducted and led the mobile Fleet Review flotilla of seven warships from five nations in the occasion of 50th Independence Day of PNG.^[537]
Western Naval Command	Operational deployment to the Arabian Sea	INS Surat (D69)	28 August – mid September	Jeddah Port, Saudi Arabia	^[522] Conducted PASSEX with ITS Caio Duilio (D554)^[538]^[539]
Western Naval Command	Operational deployment to the Mediterranean Sea — Captain Sachin Kulkarni	INS Trikand (F51)	1 September – early October	Port of Alexandria, Egypt Salamis Naval Base, Greece Evangelos Florakis Naval Base, Limassol, Cyprus Port of Taranto, Italy	Participated in the 2025 edition of multilateral Exercise Bright Star^[540] and the maiden bilateral exercise of Greece and India.^[541]^[542]^[543]
Southern Naval Command	Long Range Training Deployment, Persian Gulf — Captain Tijo K Joseph	First Training Squadron INS Tir (A86) INS Shardul (L16) INS Sujata (P56) ICGS Sarathi	1 – 21 September	Port Victoria, Seychelles Maputo, Mozambique Mombasa, Kenya	^[544]^[545]^[546]^[547]
Eastern Naval Command	Operational deployment of the Eastern fleet to the South China Sea	INS Nistar (A16) Submarine Rescue Unit (East)	15 – 23 September	Changi Naval Base, Singapore	Participated in Exercise Pacific Reach 2025 (XPR 25) hosted in the South China Sea.^[548]^[549]^[550]
Southern Naval Command	Survey deployment to Mauritius	INS Sutlej (J17)	29 September – 26 October	Port Louis, Mauritius	^[551]^[552]
Eastern Naval Command	Operational deployment – South China Sea and the Indo-Pacific	INS Sahyadri	2 October – November end	Kemaman Port, Malaysia Busan Naval Base, South Korea Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan Guam, United States Manila, Philippines	^[553]^[554] Participated in the maiden edition of the IN-RoKN Bilateral Exercise with ROKS Gyeongnam.^[555]^[556] Participated in JAIMEX-25 with JMSDF ships Asahi, Ōmi and submarine Jinryū between 16 and 18 October.^[557]^[558] Participated in Exercise Malabar 2025^[559] and AusIndEx-25 with HMAS Ballarat.^[560]
Western Naval Command	Exercise Konkan 2025	INS Vikrant (R11) (Captain Ashok Rao) INS Kolkata (D63) INS Mormugao (D67) INS Surat (D69) INS Tabar (F44) INS Teg (F45) INS Deepak (A50)	5–8 October	Arabian Sea	The UK CSG 25 consisted of^[561]^[562] HMS Prince of Wales (R09), HMS Richmond (F239), RFA Tidespring (A136), HNoMS Roald Amundsen (F311) of the Norwegian Navy and JS Akebono (DD-108) of the JMSDF.
	Operational deployment – Indian Ocean Region	INS Savitri	10 November – November end	Port of Beira, Mozambique Port Victoria, Seychelles	^[563]^[564]^[565]
Andaman & Nicobar Command	Operational Turnaround	Three Mk. IV LCU INLCU 51 INLCU 54 INLCU 57	10 – 25 November	Port of Colombo, Sri Lanka	^[566]
Eastern Naval Command	Navy Week Celebrations	INS Ranvir INS Satpura INS Himgiri INS Udaygiri	26 November	Port of Chennai	^[567]
Eastern Naval Command	Navy Week Celebrations	INS Kora INS Khanjar	28 – 30 November	Port of Kolkata	^[568]^[569]
Western Naval Command	Sri Lanka Navy International Fleet Review 2025	INS Vikrant INS Udaygiri	27 – 30 November	Port of Colombo, Sri Lanka	^[570]^[571]
	Operation Sagar Bandhu	INS Vikrant (two Chetak helicopters) INS Udaygiri INS Sukanya INS Gharial three Mk. IV LCUs (LCU 51, 54, 57)	27 November – 8 December	Port of Colombo, Sri Lanka Trincomalee, Sri Lanka	^[572]^[573]^[574]

List of deployments (2026–present)

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Fleet	Deployment	Ships	Date	Port Visited	Notes and References
2026
Southern Naval Command	Long Range Training Deployment, South East Asia — Captain Tijo K Joseph^[575]	First Training Squadron INS Tir (A86) INS Shardul (L16) INS Sujata (P56) ICGS Sarathi	15 January – January end	Changi Naval Base, Singapore.^[576] Port of Belawan, Indonesia.^[575] Phuket Deep Sea Port, Phuket, Thailand.^[577]	^[576]
Southern Naval Command	Transoceanic expedition Lokyan 26	INS Sudarshini	20 January	Kochi	^[578]
			2 February	Salalah, Oman	^[579]
			21 February	Safaga, Egypt	^[580]
			12 March	Valletta, Malta	^[581]
			26 March	Sète, France	Will participate in Escale à Sète.^[582]
			15–18 April	Port of Casablanca, Morocco	^[583]
			23–26 April	Las Palmas Canary Islands, Spain	^[584]^[585]
			4–8 May	Mindelo, Cape Verde	^[586]^[587]
			27–31 May	Antigua	^[588]^[589]
			19–23 June	Norfolk, Virginia, United States	^[590]
			26 June	Port of Baltimore, Maryland, United States	^[590]
Western Naval Command	Operation Urja Suraksha — Gulf of Oman	INS Surat (D69)	February – June	Bahrain	Deployment amid 2026 Iran war.^[591] Might be deployed to escort Indian-flagged vessels from the crisis-hit Strait of Hormuz.^[592]^[593]
Western Naval Command	Operation Urja Suraksha — Gulf of Aden	Unknown Talwar-class frigate	February – June
Western Naval Command	South West Indian Ocean Exercise LAMITIYE-2026	INS Trikand (F51)	10 – 13 March	Port Louis, Mauritius	The marching contingent and integral helicopter took part in the Mauritius National Day celebrations. Trikand also undertook a PASSEX and EEZ surveillance with CGS Valiant after departure.^[594]^[595]
			16 – 20 March	Port Victoria, Seychelles	First tri-service edition of Exercise LAMITIYE. Personnel from the Assam Regiment of the Indian Army and a C-130J of the Indian Air Force were also present.^[596]^[597]
			26 March	Maputo, Mozambique	^[598]
			3 April	Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania	The crew will engage in professional interactions and joint training activities with the Tanzania Navy.^[599]
			7 – 10 April	Mombasa Port, Kenya	^[600]
Eastern Naval Command	Western Pacific Ocean	INS Nilgiri (F33)		Sydney Harbour, Australia	Participated in the Royal Australian Navy's multilateral naval exercise Kakadu 2026.^[601]
Southern Naval Command	Indian Ocean	INS Nireekshak (A15)	21 – 27 April	Port of Colombo, Sri Lanka	Participated in the fourth edition of IN-SLN DIVEX 2026 with the Sri Lanka Navy.^[602]
Southern Naval Command	Indian Ocean	INS Kalpeni (T75)	25 April	Gan, Addu Atoll, Maldives	^[603]
Eastern Naval Command	Indian Ocean	INS Sindhukesari (S60)	3 May	Port of Colombo, Sri Lanka	^[604]^[605]
Southern Naval Command	Indian Ocean	INS Sharda (P55)	8 May	Off the coast of Kochi	Conducted PASSEX with HNLMS De Ruyter (F804).^[606]
Southern Naval Command	Indian Ocean	INS Sharda (P55)	13 June	Port of Colombo	^[607]
Western Naval Command	South West Indian Ocean — Captain Rohit Mishra (Tarkash)	INS Tarkash (F50) INS Ikshak (J23) (joined 26 June)	12 – 15 June	Port Victoria, Seychelles	Escorted PS Zoroaster of the Seychelles Coast Guard from shipyard of the GRSE, Kolkata to her home port after her second refit.^[608]^[609]
			20 – 22 June	Port Louis, Mauritius	^[610]^[611]
			26 – 29 June	Port Victoria, Seychelles	Participated in the 50th National Day celebrations of Seychelles.^[612]
Eastern Naval Command	South East Indian Ocean — Rear Admiral Alok Ananda (FOCEF)	INS Udaygiri (F35) INS Kavaratti (P31) INS Shakti (A57) (joined 27 June)	22 – 24 June	Nha Rong Port, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam	^[613]^[614]
			27 – 29 June	Sattahip Naval Base, Thailand	^[615]^[616]
			1 July	Changi Naval Base, Singapore	^[617]

List of Indian Naval deployments

Background

Summary of naval deployments

List of deployments (2013–15)

List of deployments (2016–20)

List of deployments (2022–2025)

List of deployments (2026–present)

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