'Combat Ready': Indian Navy Successfully Test Fires Anti-Ship Missiles In Arabian Sea

The Indian Navy said that the exercise was aimed at demonstrating the Navy's combat readiness and its capability to safeguard India's maritime interests. 

The Indian Navy successfully carried out anti-ship firings, demonstrating its readiness for long-range precision strikes.

Source : X/Indian Navy

The Indian Navy warships successfully carried out anti-ship firings revalidating readiness for long-range precision strikes. The firing drills come amid heightened tensions between India and Pakistan over the Pahalgam terror attack.

The Navy on Sunday said that the exercise was aimed at demonstrating the Navy's combat readiness and its capability to safeguard India's maritime interests.

"Indian Navy Ships undertook successful multiple anti-ship firings to revalidate and demonstrate readiness of platforms, systems and crew for long range precision offensive strike. Indian Navy stands combat ready credible and future ready in safeguarding the nation’s maritime interests Anytime Anywhere Anyhow," Indian Navy said in a post on X.

#IndianNavy Ships undertook successful multiple anti-ship firings to revalidate and demonstrate readiness of platforms, systems and crew for long range precision offensive strike.#IndianNavy stands #CombatReady #Credible and #FutureReady in safeguarding the nation’s maritime… pic.twitter.com/NWwSITBzKK

— SpokespersonNavy (@indiannavy) April 27, 2025

The Indian Navy also shared pictures of the cruise missiles being fired from warships demonstrating preparedness for the long-range precision strikes. 

The military exercise comes in the wake of the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir, where 26 people were killed. Following the attack, India downgraded its diplomatic relations with Pakistan, including suspending Indus Waters Treaty, visa services and recalling its diplomats from Pakistan.

Earlier, the Indian Navy's warship INS Surat carried out a successful test firing of the Medium range surface-to-air missile (MR-SAM) air defence missile system in the Arabia Sea.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that victims of the Pahalgam terror attack will definitely get justice, asserting that terrorists and conspirators behind the killings of 26 people will be served the harshest punishment.

"Blood of every Indian is boiling by looking at the pictures of the attack," he said in his monthly Mann Ki Baat address.

Modi said the country's unity and solidarity of its 140 crore citizens is its biggest strength in this war against terrorism. The prime minister said the attack in the famous tourist town in Kashmir reflected the desperation and cowardice of the patrons of terrorism, a reference to Pakistan, at a time when peace was returning to the Valley and there was vibrancy in its schools and colleges.