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US Navy ends search for Navy Sailor who went missing after crash of Seahawk helicopter in the Arabian Sea

OpIndia Staff - 5 July, 2026

The United States Navy has suspended its active search for a missing Sailor from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 5, embarked on the aircraft...

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US navy rescued 14 Indian sailors in Arabian sea after engine failure causes cargo vessel to sink near Oman

OpIndia Staff - 14 June, 2026

Fourteen Indian sailors are safe after their vessel, MSV Virat 1, suffered engine failure and began sinking off the Oman coast.

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Third ship with Indian crew hit by US forces in Gulf of Oman, bitumen tanker MT Jalveer with 20 Indians catches fire after the...

OpIndia Staff - 11 June, 2026

In yet another worrying development for Indian seafarers operating in the Gulf of Oman, the commercial vessel MT Jalveer came under attack off the...

US naval blockade in the Persian Gulf only for ships entering or leaving Iranian ports, not other ports, CENTCOM clarifies

OpIndia Staff - 13 April, 2026

US Central Command has posted a ‘clarification’ on the earlier announcement by Trump that the US Naval Forces will start a blockade of the...

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Houthis attack a massive container ship twice in Red Sea, US Navy sinks 3 boats and shoots down 2 ballistic missiles to protect the...

OpIndia Staff - 31 December, 2023

US Navy averted attack on commercial vessel Maersk Hangzhou, shot down 2 missies fired by Houthis and sank three boats

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US Navy dismisses first-ever woman commander of missile destroyer USS Hopper, cites ‘leadership issues’

OpIndia Staff - 14 April, 2021

Commander Kathryn Dawley took command of the USS Hopper in April 2020 and was the first-ever woman to do so. According to the Pacific Fleet, her removal from command was “due to a loss of confidence in her leadership.”

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New Delhi conveys concern to Washington over US Navy carrying out operations in Indian waters without consent

OpIndia Staff - 9 April, 2021

Earlier today, the US Navy issued a statement alleging that it conducted operations in Indian EEZ without seeking its consent

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US Navy boasts that it broke Indian maritime rules, conducts FONOP off Lakshadweep Islands inside India’s EEZ

OpIndia Staff - 9 April, 2021

The US Navy has boasted that they had carried out Freedom of Navigation operations 130 nautical miles off Lakshadweep, inside India's EEZ.

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‘Social media literacy is national security’: US Chief of Naval Operations raises privacy concerns over Chinese app TikTok

OpIndia Staff - 17 June, 2020

Raising apprehensions on the privacy of the Chinese app users, the US Navy Chief of Information stated that one needn't be a think tank expert to understand how important it has always been for the Chinese government to have control over information.

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