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[edit] List of blue-water navies
[edit] Potential blue water navies
- China (People's Liberation Army Navy) [1] China has an ambitious construction programme, including plans to design or procure an aircraft carrier. The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has undergone rapid modernisation. The PLAN also includes 35,000 Coastal Defence Force and 56,000 Naval infantry and Marines, plus a 56,000 People's Liberation Army Naval Air Force operating several hundred landbased aircraft and shipbased helicopters. However, the navy has limited experience beyond China's traditional territorial waters and will take time to upgrade its assets.
- India (Indian Navy) [2] [3] The Indian navy has adopted a modernisation and expansion program since the 1980s. The navy has inducted many indigenously designed vessels such as the Delhi class destroyers, Godavari and Brahmaputra class frigates and Corvettes. It has also inducted into service the Russian built Krivak III Class Stealth Frigates. Indigenously manufactured Shivalik Class Stealth Frigates are also due to enter service in the Indian Navy by 2007 and the Russian built Advanced Krivak class frigates with Brahmos cruise missiles by 2011. In addition, it has also been reported that the Indian Navy is working on a nuclear submarine known as the Advanced Technology Vessel [4]. The navy's aircraft carrier, INS Viraat, since its comissioning in 1987, has spent almost 5 years total in dock for repairs or refits (Modernisation of the communication equipement,radar, Installation of Barak Anti-Air Missile, propulsion systems etc). India has secured a Russian aircraft carrier, Admiral Gorshkov to be named INS Vikramaditya. After a refit, it is due to enter service in 2007 or 2008. [5] [6]. The Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC), is due to enter service sometime in 2011 or 2012. [7]. The induction of new supersonic BrahMos cruise missiles with land attack capability and the introduction of network warfare, stealth warships and UAV's have strengthened the Indian Navy. The BrahMos weapon system, which is being jointly developed by India and Russia, is to be integrated into India's Destroyers and Frigates. The navy has also begun construction of the new Kolkata class of destroyers[8] which are being specially designed for integrating the BrahMos platform. Senior Indian admirals have declared that India posseses a blue-water navy, however this has not confirmed by any independent authorities.
- Japan (Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force) [9] Japan has the logistics and political support necessary for extended fleet operations, and its existing fleet includes some of the best destroyers (such as the Kongō class and Atago class, the latter not yet commissioned) in the world. Though its current construction programme does not include any plans to build an aircraft carrier, it has long wished to operate them. The new DDH project[10] has been heralded as an indication that Japan still has that intent. The 13,500 ton (the same displacement as the Spanish Navy's Principe de Asturias) helicopter-carrying destroyers will officially carry up to three SH-60Js and one MCH-101, but it is said to have the capacity to carry the MH-53E and as many as 11 aircraft. The first ship of this class is expected to enter service in 2009.
- South Korea (Republic of Korea Navy) [11] In 2001, then President Kim Dae Jung stated that his administration was aiming to build a large navy to protect Korea and help defend world peace. Today, Republic of Korea Navy aims to become a substantial blue-water navy by 2020. It has begun construction on new projects, including the KDX, new submarines and the dokdo class amphibious ships. The first Dokdo Class Amphibious Ship is due to be commissioned in 2007.
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- ^ During the seventeenth century, the Netherlands possessed an unusually powerful navy despite any apparent sociopolitical shortcomings of the state.[citation needed]
