Will board suspicious boats to fight pirates: Navy chief Admiral R Hari Kumar
Thursday, 11 January 2024
The Indian Navy is proactively deploying its fleet to counter piracy and conducting anti-drone operations to tackle the increasing attacks on merchant ships by drones, chief of naval staff Admiral R Hari Kumar said here on Wednesday. “We have now decided that we will board any suspicious dhow, ship or fishing boat, look for piracy triggers and if we find any we will take action,” the Navy chief said on the sidelines of the handing over ceremony of the indigenously manufactured Drishti 10 Starliner medium altitude long endurance drone at the Adani Aerospace Park here.
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