Fleet | Deployment | Ships | Date | Port Visited | Notes and References |
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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 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 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 | 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] |
19 – 26 September | Muscat, Oman | Naseem Al Bahar IX [20] [21] |
| India-Indonesia CORPAT 2013 | | September | | |
Western Naval Command | Konkan 2013 | INS Delhi | 14 – 19 October | Goa, India | [22] |
| Indo-Thai CORPAT 2013 | | November | | |
Eastern Naval Command | Malabar 2013 | 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 | 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 | 4 – 9 February | Port Blair, India | [27] [28] |
| MH-370 Search | INS Satpura INS Sahyadri | 13 – 20 March | Bay of Bengal | [29] [30] |
INS Saryu INS Kesari INS Kumbhir INS Batti Malv | Andaman Sea |
Andaman & Nicobar Command | Exercise KOMODO 2014 | INS Sukanya | 28 March – 3 April | Batam, Indonesia | [31] [32] |
| International Fleet Review | INS Shivalik | 20 – 25 April | Qingdao, China | [33] |
Eastern Naval Command | SIMBEX 2014 | INS Karmuk INS Kuthar | 22 – 28 May | Port Blair, India | [34] |
Eastern Naval Command | Western Pacific | 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 | 14 – 19 July | Vladivostok, Russia | Indra 2014 [38] |
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 | 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 | 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 | 5 – 12 December | Male, Maldives | [50] [51] |
2015 |
Southern Naval Command | Lokayan 2015 | 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 | 24 – 28 May | Penang, Malaysia | [71] |
Eastern Naval Command | South Indian Ocean and South China Sea – Rear Admiral Ajendra Bahadur Singh | 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 | 26 June – 9 July | Port Victoria, Seychelles | [81] |
Western Naval Command | Visit to Iran | 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 | 11 – 16 September | Visakhapatnam, India | [83] |
Western Naval Command | Persian Gulf | 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 | 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 | 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 | 1 – 21 October | Port Belawan, Indonesia | [99] |
| SLINEX-2015 4th Edition | INS Kora INS Kirpan INS Savitri | 27 October – 1 November | Trincomalee, Sri Lanka | [100] |
| Hydro-graphic survey | INS Darshak | 8 November – 8 December | Port Victoria, Seychelles | [101] |
2016 |
Western Naval Command | Exercise Naseem Al Bahr X | INS Trikand INS Trishul | 22 – 27 January | Goa, India | [102] |
Western Naval Command | Visit to Sri Lanka – Rear Admiral Ravneet Singh [103] | INS Vikramaditya INS Mysore INS Deepak | 21 – 23 January | Colombo, Sri Lanka | [103] |
15 – 18 February | Male, Maldives | [104] |
Southern Naval Command | Indo-Myanmar CORPAT 2016 | INS Saryu INS Bitra | 17 – 19 February | Yangon, Myanmar | [105] |
Western Naval Command | IBSAMAR V | INS Mumbai INS Trishul INS Shalki | 19 – 26 February | Goa, India | [106] |
Western Naval Command | Mauritius National Day celebrations [107] | 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 | 27 March – 18 April 2016 | Andaman & Nicobar Islands, India | [108] [109] |
Western Naval Command | DIMDEX 2016 | INS Beas | 28 March – 2 April | Doha, Qatar | |
Southern Naval Command | South East Asia – Vice Admiral Girish Luthra | INS Tir INS Sujata INS Sudarshini ICGS Varuna | 4 – 8 April | Phuket, Thailand | [110] |
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 | 19 – 27 April | Andaman Sea | [112] |
Andaman & Nicobar Command | India-Indonesian CORPAT-2016 27th Edition [113] | INS Karmuk | 29 April – 16 May | Port Belawan, Indonesia | [113] |
| ASEAN ADMM Plus | INS Airavat | 1 – 9 May | Brunei | [114] |
Western Naval Command | Anti-piracy patrol in Gulf of Aden | INS Sharda | 2 May | Duqm, Oman | [115] [116] |
Western Naval Command | Persian Gulf – Rear Admiral Ravneet Singh [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 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 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 | 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 | 10 – 27 October | Belawan, Indonesia | [161] |
Southern Naval Command | South East Asia – Vice Admiral AR Karve | 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 | 28 October – 29 November | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | [166] |
3 December – 3 January | Port Louis, Mauritius | [167] |
Eastern Naval Command | SIMBEX 2016 – Rear Admiral Biswajit Dasgupta | INS Ranvijay INS Kamorta Sindhugosh-class submarine | 31 October – 5 November | Visakhapatnam, India | [168] |
| Southern Indian Ocean | INS Shardul | 8 – 10 November | Port Louis, Mauritius | [169] |
23 November | Port Victoria, Seychelles | [170] |
| Sailing race | 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 | 12 December | Chennai, India | HADR Operation for Cyclone Vardah [174] |
Eastern Naval Command | Indra 2016 | INS Ranvir INS Satpura INS Kamorta | 14 – 21 December | Visakhapatnam, India | [175] |
Western Naval Command | PASSEX with Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force | 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 | 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 | 18 February – 12 March | Abu Dabhi, UAE | [184] |
Eastern Naval Command | Hydro-graphic survey | 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 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 INS Bangaram | 12 – 18 March | Yangon, Myanmar | [191] [192] |
| Southern Indian Ocean EEZ Surveillance | INS Shardul | 8 – 26 March | Port Louis, Mauritius | [193] |
27 March – Mid April | Port Victoria, Seychelles |
| Joint Amphibious Workup | INS Jalashwa INS Gharial | 19 – 31 March | Karwar, India | [181] |
Andaman & Nicobar Command | LIMA 2017 | INS Kora | 20 – 26 March | Langkawi, Malaysia | [181] |
| Assistance to MV MSC Daniela | 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 INS Trishul INS Tarkash INS Aditya | 18 – 21 April | Souda Bay, Greece | PASSEX with H pellenic Navy [200] [201] |
INS Mumbai INS Trishul INS Aditya | 24 – 30 April | Toulon, France | VARUNA 2017 with French Navy [202] |
| 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] |
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 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 | 20 May | Maldives | [245] [246] [247] |
Southern Naval Command | Training Mission | INS Sumedha | 21 – 24 May | Colombo, Sri Lanka | [248] |
Eastern Naval Command | HADR to Sri Lanka | 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 | 30 May – 2 June | Chittagong, Bangladesh | [252] [253] |
INS Gharial | 31 May – 2 June | [254] |
INS Sumitra | 6 – 8 June | Yangon, Myanmar | [255] [256] |
Western Naval Command | Deployment to Mauritius EEZ | INS Teg | 3 – 6 June | Port Louis, Mauritius | [257] |
Southern Naval Command | | INSV Tarini | 6 June | Port Louis, Mauritius | [258] |
Western Naval Command | SAR for Mexican Sail Training Ship (STS) Cuauhtemoc | INS Mysore INS Teg | 12 – 13 June | Arabian Sea | [259] |
Southern Naval Command | Seychelles National Day Celebrations | INS Sunyana | 26 – 30 June | Port Victoria, Seychelles | [260] [261] |
Southern Naval Command | PASSEX with HMAS Newcastle | 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 | 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 | 1 August | Gulf of Aden | [269] |
Eastern Naval Command | SLINEX 2017 | INS Gharial INS Kora | 7 – 14 September | Visakhapatnam, India | [270] [271] |
Southern Naval Command | Navika Sagar Parikrama | 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 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 Mumbai INS Shishumar | 20 September | Duqm, Oman | [305] [306] [307] |
Eastern Naval Command | Operation Insaniyat – HADR Bangladesh for Rohingya crisis | INS Gharial | 25 – 29 September | Chittagong, Bangladesh | [308] [309] [310] [311] |
Western Naval Command | Northern Arabian Sea | INS Trishul | 5 October | Arabian Sea | [312] [313] |
Southern Naval Command | South-East Asia | 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 | 8 – 15 October | Male, Maldives | [318] [319] |
Andaman & Nicobar Command | India-Indonesian CORPAT-2017 30th Edition | INS Sukanya | 24 October – 5 November | Belawan, Indonesia | [320] [321] [322] |
Southern Naval Command | Hydrographic Survey of Southern and Western coast | INS Sutlej | 26 October – 21 December | Colombo, Sri Lanka | [323] [324] [325] |
Western Naval Command | EEZ Surveillance | INS Tarkash | 21 October – 1 November | Port Victoria, Seychelles | [319] |
2 – 9 November | Port Louis, Mauritius | [326] |
Southern Naval Command | Hydrographic Survey of Pemba Island | INS Sarvekshak | 15 November | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | [327] [328] |
Western Naval Command | National Day Celebrations and Presence-Surveillance mission | 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 | 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 ICGSAbhinav 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 | 4 December | Salalah, Oman | [342] |
Western Naval Command | Persian Gulf | INS Teg INS Trikand INS Shankush | 17 – 23 December | Muscat, Oman | Exercise Naseem Al Bahr XI [343] [344] |
INS Teg INS Trikand | 23 – 26 December | Abu Dabhi, UAE | [345] |
Western Naval Command | PASSEX with French Navy | INS Tarkash | 24 December | Goa, India | [346] |
| Hydrographic Survey | INS Sarvekshak | 30 December | Port Louis, Mauritius | [347] |
2018 |
Western Naval Command | Operational Exercise | 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 | 13 January | Mumbai High North | [351] [352] [353] |
Andaman & Nicobar Command | India-Thai CORPAT-2018 25th Edition – Commodore A Ridhorkar | INS Saryu | 23 – 31 January | Phuket, Thailand | [354] [355] [356] [357] |
Eastern Naval Command | PASSEX with Bangladesh Navy | 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 | 12 February – 1 March | Arabian sea | [360] [361] [362] |
Southern Naval Command | Southern Indian Ocean | 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 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 | 11 – 15 March | Doha, Qatar | DIMDEX and PASSEX with Qatari Emiri Navy [369] [370] |
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 | 14 – 18 March | Port Blair, India | [372] [373] |
Western Naval Command | Varuna 2018 (Phase I) with French Navy | INS Mumbai INS Trikand INS Kalvari | 15 – 24 March | Goa, India | [374] [375] |
Eastern Naval Command | INMEX 1st Edition with Myanmar Navy | INS Sahyadri INS Kamorta | 25 March – 3 April | Visakhapatnam, India | [376] |
Western Naval Command | Training Exercise with US Navy | 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 | 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 | 7 – 8 April | Chennai, India | [381] [382] |
Eastern Naval Command | DefExpo 2018 | INS Sahyadri INS Kamorta INS Kirch INS Airavat INS Sumitra | 13 – 15 April | Chennai, India | [383] [384] |
Southern Naval Command | Lokayan 2018 | 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 | 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 | | 28 April – 15 May | Maafilhafushi, Maldives | [404] |
Eastern Naval Command | East and South-East Asia – Rear Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi | 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] |
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 | 11 -12 May | Male, Maldives | [404] |
Andaman & Nicobar Command | India-Indonesian CORPAT-2018 31st Edition – Commodore Ashutosh Ridhorkar | INS Kulish | 24 – 25 May | Port Blair, India | [419] |
6 – 9 June | Belawan, Indonesia |
Eastern Naval Command | South east Asia deployment | INS Satpura | 2 June | Singapore | [420] [421] |
Southern Naval Command | Operation Nistar – HADR for cyclone Mekenu | INS Sunayna | 3 June | Socotra, Yemen | [422] |
Andaman & Nicobar Command | India-Thai CORPAT-2018 26th Edition | INS Kesari | 16 – 22 June | Port Blair, India | [423] [424] |
Eastern Naval Command | India-Bangladesh CORPAT-2018 1st Edition | INS Satpura INS Kadmatt | 27 June | Chittagong, Bangladesh | [425] |
Western Naval Command | | INS Trikand | 7 – 9 July | Colombo, Sri Lanka | [426] [427] |
Andaman & Nicobar Command | Malacca straits operational deployment | INS Sumitra | 11 July | Sabang, Indonesia | [428] |
Western Naval Command | Anti-piracy patrol in Gulf of Aden under Combined Task Force | INS Teg | 16 July | Djibouti, Djibouti | [429] [430] |
Western Naval Command | Arabian Sea operational deployment | INS Tarkash | 18 July | Mombasa, Kenya | [431] |
24 – 26 July | Bandar Abbas, Iran | [432] |
Eastern Naval Command | Operational Turn-around | 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 | 7 – 13 September | Trincomalee, Sri Lanka | [435] |
Western Naval Command | East Africa and the Southern Indian Ocean – Vice Admiral Girish Luthra | INS Kolkata INS Tarkash | 15 – 18 September | Mombasa, Kenya | [436] [437] |
1 -13 October | Simon's Town, South Africa | IBSAMAR IV [438] |
Western Naval Command | West Asia | INS Mumbai | 19 – 21 September | Hamad, Qatar | [439] |
Eastern Naval Command | Southern Indian Ocean deployment and Golden Globe Rescue Mission | INS Satpura INS Jyoti | 21 September – 2 October | South Indian Ocean | [440] |
Andaman & Nicobar Command | Indo-Myanmar CORPAT 7th Edition | INS Kulish INS Battimalv | 24 – 26 September | Yangon, Myanmar | [441] |
Southern Naval Command | | 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 | 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 | 7 – 15 October | Visakhapatnam, India | [446] |
Southern Naval Command | Anti-piracy patrol in Gulf of Aden | INS Sunayna | 11 October | Djibouti, Djibouti | [447] [448] |
18 November | Gulf of Aden | PASSEX with JMSDF [449] |
Eastern Naval Command | Operational deployment to Central Indian Ocean Region | INS Rajput | 11 October | Colombo, Sri Lanka | [450] |
Andaman & Nicobar Command | India-Indonesian CORPAT-2018 32nd Edition – Commodore Ashutosh Ridhorkar | 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 | 10 – 21 November | Port Blair and Visakhapatnam, India | [452] |
Western Naval Command | Konkan 2018 with Royal Navy | INS Kolkata | 28 November – 6 December | Goa, India | [453] |
2022 |
Western Naval Command Eastern Naval Command | Maritime exercise | | 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 | | This is the longest ever deployment of an Indian Submarine as well as for a Scorpène-class submarine (7,000 km) at once. [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 | | 6 – 23 May | | [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 | | 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 | | [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 | | [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 | | [486] [487] [488] |
Southern Naval Command | Long Range Training Deployment, Persian Gulf | First Training Squadron | 1–15 October | | [489] [490] [491] |
Western Naval Command | Maritime Bilateral Exercise | | 5–6 October | Arabian Sea | Bilateral exercise of CSG s 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 | 13–18 October | Goa, India | 14th edition of Indo-Oman maritime exercise ‘Naseem Al Bahr’ with RNOS Al-Seeb. [497] |
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 | 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] |