I am not saying the Chinese are going to send cargo ships to fight war with us . What if we face same incidents like USN faced in the last two months accidental ones ...well as you said no self respecting navy will allow a cargo ship to even come close to it in war ....
No self-respecting warship allows a cargo barge to come anywhere within striking distance of it, especially when guns drawn and safety off. Couple of warnings, then BOOM. Cargo on ocean floor.
Few clarifications our strategic reserve oil storage is only for 10 days not for months ..we will have 30 days reserve capacity by 2020 . China has for 30 days and building capacity for 90 days ...
They already have war ships in Arabia sea and Indian ocean . Check out their naval outpost in Maldives which also has a air strip to land their bombers ... If our armed forces never thought Maldives base is not threat they would have not secretly started work on naval base in karavatti island in Lakshadweep . .
Plus they have Gwadar and also the recently opened base in Djibouti which also has ships and marine commandos . .
Last but not least not necessary that all Chinese shipments go through Malacca straits in Chinese ships it can even go in other flag ships so how will we target them . The amount of ships which does through the IOR region it's very large and are we going to fight the war and also put economic blockade with such small amount of ships we got . . Remember the PLAN will send their ships and subs which also need to be countered. Honestly as of today we can only limit Chinese war ships to an extent but not fully stop them in BoB or IoR ..we need more for that 2020 is when we can realistically think of causing any massive trouble to Chinese in IOR provided we induct those shops and also helicopters which are badly missing on most of our newly commissioned shops for ASW
what are You smoking Bro ??
in the case of war they will send their navy to attack on south India .......................so blocking of malacca strait is necessary to stop their invasion .
also we have more than 5 million tonnes of underground crude oil storage which can be used for many Months in the case of war ..
www.economictimes.com/industry/energy/oil-gas/india-to-commission-5-mt-underground-oil-storages-by-october/articleshow/46073393.cms
Hitting Indian Navy ship by Chinese cargo ships ??
Lol , they will spread mines around Malacca strait & our navy ships are armed each unknown Incoming ship will be destroyed in the case of war .
I'm using Opera mini on my mobile! I need to change that, pronto! These darned Chicoms seem to be buying off everything under the sun! Jeeez!
