Underwater Domain Awareness: Case for India

The book analyzes the emerging underwater challenges facing India in the Indian Ocean region, including the competition with major economic powers in modernizing their submarine fleets and building advanced unmanned underwater vessels. It focuses on detecting, tracking, and classifying submarines/underwater drones and examines the Indian Navy's ASW capabilities and the need for inter-agency cooperation. It also assesses the naval composition and strengths of India and other countries in the region and discusses maritime domain awareness practices employed by leading navies. The book offers recommendations for technology development efforts to deal with these challenges.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 106 pages
Publication date: 29 January 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The Indian Ocean region is witnessing a surge in underwater challenges, with major economic powers like China, the United States, and Russia modernizing their submarine fleets and building advanced unmanned underwater vessels to enhance surveillance capabilities. This competition has intensified the Indo-Pacific underwater domain.

The book delves into the critical issues of detecting, tracking, and classifying submarines and underwater drones in the Indian Ocean. It examines the Indian Navy's present anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capabilities in combating underwater threats and discusses the scope for inter-agency, inter-departmental cooperation frameworks to monitor the undersea activity in the region.

The book also studies the naval composition and strengths of India and other countries in the neighborhood and reviews maritime domain awareness practices employed by leading navies, including NATO, for submarine detection.

Assessing the technology development efforts to deal with these challenges, the book offers valuable recommendations for policymakers, naval establishments, think tanks, and public policy institutes.

This comprehensive study of undersea surveillance is indispensable for students and researchers of military and strategic studies, defense studies, critical security, conflict resolution, intelligence studies, and security studies. It will also interest governments, naval establishments, think tanks, and public policy institutes.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 216 x 138 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032287577