10 Facts About Blue-water navy

Blue-water navy is a maritime force capable of operating globally, essentially across the deep waters of open oceans.

The Soviet Navy towards the end of the Cold War is another example of a blue-water navy that had minimal carrier aviation, relying instead on submarines, missile-carrying surface ships, and long-range bombers based on land.

Blue-water navy implies force protection from sub-surface, surface and airborne threats and a sustainable logistic reach, allowing a persistent presence at long range.

Traditionally a distinction used to be made between a coastal brown-water navy operating in the littoral zone to 200 nautical miles and an oceangoing blue-water navy.

However, the United States Navy created a new term, green-water Blue-water navy, to replace the term 'brown-water Blue-water navy' in US Navy parlance.

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Today, a brown-water Blue-water navy has become to be known as a predominantly riverine force.

The Indian Navy is the only Asian Blue-water navy considered to be a rank three "multi-regional power projection Blue-water navy" per Todd and Lindberg's classification system.

Since 2007 the Blue-water navy has increased its presence in the Persian Gulf and the Horn of Africa to the Strait of Malacca, and routinely conducts anti-piracy operations and partnership building with other navies in the region.

India inducted its first aircraft carrier in 1961, and the Blue-water navy has ever since operated two independent carrier task forces.

Today the Blue-water navy possesses two aircraft carriers as well as a modern fleet of surface combatants and submarines.