Defence production within India is experiencing a tremendous change to accomplish self-reliance in defence technology. A growing number of AONs have been released under Make India, Buy and Make India Categorization. The quantum of Offset commitments under defence agreements is usually...

1 Introduction -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Why Warships? -- 1.3 How Do You Get Your Information? -- 1.4 The Structure of the Study -- Notes -- 2 Changing Navies and Naval Technology -- 2.1 Order of Battle, 1960 and 1980 -- 2.2 “The Navy Always Travels First Class” -- 2.3 Conclusions -- Notes --...