Indian Navy deploys unprecedented might near Red Sea to control piracy

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As Western powers focus on strikes by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis, India has sent out at least a dozen warships east of the Red Sea to guard against pirates and has looked into over 250 vessels, according to Indian officials. India does not have any warships in the Red Sea and has not joined the task force headed by the United States. However, the officials stated that it now possesses surveillance planes, at least ten warships in the northern and western Arabian Sea, and two frontline vessels in the Gulf of Aden. They said that this is India’s biggest deployment in...