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An ocean named after India needs a navy to match.

Carriers, submarines, destroyers and the shipyards.

Built in India, mostly.

Nuclear missile submarines
INS Arihant (2016), INS Arighaat (Aug 2024) and INS Aridhaman (Apr 2026, with eight tubes for the K-4 missile). A fourth is on trials. (reported) ThePrint, 3 Apr 2026
Attack submarines, nuclear
Two approved by the Cabinet Committee on Security on 9 Oct 2024 for about ₹40,000 crore, to be built at Visakhapatnam. The Week, 10 Oct 2024
Scorpene
The sixth and last Kalvari-class boat, Vaghsheer, commissioned 15 Jan 2025. PIB Year-End Review 2025
Project 75I
TKMS with Mazagon Dock selected for six air-independent submarines worth about ₹70,000 crore. Not yet signed. (reported)
Destroyers
All four Visakhapatnam-class (Project 15B) in service. The last, INS Surat, on 15 Jan 2025. PIB Year-End Review 2025
Frigates
Seven Nilgiri-class (Project 17A), each with 8 BrahMos and 32 MRSAM. Nilgiri, Udaygiri, Himgiri and Taragiri commissioned; all due in 2026. PIB Year-End Review 2025 · Naval News, Apr 2026
Rafale M
26 carrier jets for about ₹63,000 crore, signed 28 Apr 2025. PIB, 29 Apr 2025
Shipbuilding
62 ships and one submarine under construction; 96 to join in ten years. Twelve commissioned in 2025. All India Radio, 2 Dec 2024 · PIB Year-End Review 2025
Carriers
INS Vikramaditya and INS Vikrant, the first carrier built in India, commissioned in 2022.