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Hi i would like to have the details as well as the background of the Naval war in 1971 and also about the naval operation of the eastern theatre?

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The Indo-Pakistani Naval war of 1971 comprised of a progression of maritime fights battled between the Indian and Pakistani Navy amid the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. The fights were a basic piece of India-Pakistan War and the Bangladesh Liberation War. The arrangement of maritime operations started by the Indian Navy to apply weight from the oceans while the Indian Army and Indian Air Force moved into close the ring round East Pakistan from a few headings ashore. The maritime operations fused the maritime ban, air safeguard, ground support, and coordinations missions.

With the accomplishment of the Indian Navy's operations in East Pakistan, the Indian Navy initiated two expansive scale operations, Operation Trident and Operation Python in the Western front, before the begin of formal battle amongst India and Pakistan.

Foundation

The Indian Navy did not play an indispensable and vital part amid the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 as the war was more centered around the land based clash. On 7 September, a flotilla of the Pakistan Navy under the summon of Commodore S.M. Anwar, done an assault, Operation Dwarka, of the Indian Navy's radar station of Dwarka, 200 miles (300 km) south of the Pakistani port of Karachi. This operation made the Indian Navy experience a fast modernization and development. Thusly, the Indian Navy spending plan developed from ₹350 million to ₹1.15 billion.[citation needed] The Indian Navy's Combatant Fleet was increased by the expansion of a Submarine squadron with the securing of six Osa rocket deliver from the Soviet Union. The Indian Naval Air Arm was additionally reinforced.

Naval Operations in the Eastern theater

The Indian Navy began the undercover maritime operations, which were executed effectively. The Eastern Naval Command of Indian Navy had composed, arranged, and executed these undercover maritime operations. At last months of 1971, the Indian Navy's Eastern Naval Command had successfully connected a maritime barricade which additionally totally disconnected East-Pakistan's Bay of Bengal, catching the Eastern Pakistan Navy and eight remote trader dispatches in their ports. The Pakistan Army's Combatant High Command, The GHQ, demanded and forced Pakistan Navy to convey PNS Ghazi and to develop its circle of maritime operations, into East-Pakistan shores.[citation needed] The Officer in Command of Submarine Service Branch of Pakistan Navy contradicted sending maturing submarine, PNS Ghazi, in the Bay of Bengal.

It was hard to support delayed operations in a far off zone, in the aggregate nonattendance of repair, strategic and recreational offices in the region. As of now, submarine repair offices were thoroughly missing at Chittagong – the main ocean port in the east amid this period. Her authority and different officers questioned the arrangement as when it was proposed by the senior Army and Naval officers.