GEI | Operation Arabian See

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OPERATION ARABIAN SEE (OAS)​ CONFIDENTIAL​ Deployment List (ORBAT)​ OAS contains multiple sub-missions, and includes aircraft from the Gandhi Indian Air and Space Force and the Gandhi Indian Navy, as well as ships from the GIN. OAS supplies multiple Indian governmental intelligence agencies and organisations with intelligence. Structure of OAS-assigned units Air and Space Staff ​ South Western Air Command - 400 personnel​ 8 Wing - 250 personnel​ Jaisalmer AFS - 50 personnel​ No. 10 Squadron - 20 Su-30MKI - 500 personnel​ Jodhpur AFS - 50 personnel​ No. 109 Squadron - 6 Dhruv Mk.II - 200 personnel​ 5 FBSU - 10 permanent personnel​ 9 Wing - 250 personnel​ Jamnagar AFS - 50 personnel​ No. 14 Squadron - 20 Su-30MKI - 500 personnel​ 12 FBSU - 10 permanent personnel​ Naliya AFS - 50 personnel​ 23 Wing - 250 personnel​ No. 10 ADS - 4 SPYDER-MR batteries - 500 personnel (Jodhpur AFS)​ No. 11 ADS - 4 SPYDER-MR batteries - 500 personnel (Jamnagar AFS)​ ​ 11 Wing​ No. 401 Squadron - 4 MiG-25RB, 6 MiG-25RBK, 2 MiG-25RU - 1500 personnel (2 MiG-25RBK, 1 MiG-25RB and associated (~250) personnel, named No. 401 Squadron Detachment West)​ ​ ​ ​ Naval Staff Western Naval Command - INS Angre (HQ) - 750 personnel​ ​ Western Fleet Command - 100 personnel​ 3rd West Naval Aviation Wing - 100 personnel - INS Shikra (serves ships based at Angre)​ INAS 12 - 2 Dhruv Mk.II, 25 personnel​ ​ 2nd West Naval Aviation Wing - 150 personnel​ INS Hansa (NAS) - 100 personnel​ INAS 100 - 6 Do 228-101 MPA, 200 personnel​ INAS 101 - 4 Il-38SD, 250 personnel​ INAS 102 - 6 Do 228-101 MPA, 200 personnel​ INAS 103 - 6 Tu-142MK-E, 300 personnel​ INAS 104 - 20 Jaguar IM, 300 personnel​ INS Shikra (heliport NAS) - 50 personnel​ NAE Porbandar (Naval Air Enclave) - 20 permanent personnel​ ​ Maharashtra Naval Area Command - 100 personnel​ INS Trata (missile base) - 50 personnel​ 1st Missile Squadron (MMCB) - 550 personnel, 3 BrahMos batteries​ INS Agnibahu (naval base) - 100 personnel​ 1st Missile Vessel Squadron - 50 personnel​ IGS Kora - M01 - 134 personnel​ IGS Kirch - M02 - 134 personnel​ IGS Kulish - M03 - 134 personnel​ IGS Kuthar - M11 - 134 personnel​ IGS Kirpan - M12 - 134 personnel​ ​ Goa Naval Area Command - 100 personnel​ INS Gomantak (FOB) - 50 personnel​ INHS Jeevanti (naval hospital) - 200 personnel​ ​ Gujarat Naval Area Command - 100 personnel​ INS Dwarka (FOB) - 50 personnel​ INS Sardar Patel (Naval Base) - 100 personnel​ ​ Karnataka Naval Area Command - 100 personnel​ INS Kadamba (Naval Base) - 50 personnel​ INHS Patanjali (Naval Hospital) - 300 personnel​ INS Vajrakosh (Missile/Logi Base) - 500 personnel​ ​ Commodore Commanding Submarines (West) - 20 personnel​ INS Vajrabahu (Sub. Base) - 50 personnel​ 1st Submarine Squadron - 50 personnel​ IGS Sindhughosh - S01 - 53 personnel​ ​ MARCOS Command​ Western Command​ 2 Underwater Force - 5 personnel​ ​ ​ Indian Coast Guard North-West Region (NW) CGRHQ Gandhinagar - 50 personnel​ DHQ-1 Porbandar - 30 personnel​ CGAE Porbandar - 30 personnel​ CGAS 5 - 4 Do 228-101 MPA, 150 personnel​ CGAS 6 - 5 Dhruv Mk.II, 150 personnel​ ​ Western Region (W) CGRHQ Mumbai​ DHQ-2 Mumbai​ ICGS Murud Janjira - 30 personnel​ ICG OPV 005 - 140 personnel​ ICG OPV 006 - 140 personnel​ ​

Mission Objective​ Operation Arabian See's mission objective is to conduct strategic reconnaissance and monitoring of India's western naval and air approaches from international or Indian airspace or waters.

Mission Details​ Operation Arabian See would be implemented to monitor India's maritime and aerial eastern approaches. OAS would include aircraft and ships from the Navy and Air and Space Force. The Western Naval Command would be the primary coordinator for OAS. The responsibilities and purposes of all units, starting from the top are as follows. 8 Wing would deploy 35 personnel to support No. 109 Squadron operations at Naliya AFS. They would mainly be admin/logistics and security personnel. No. 109 Squadron and CGAS 6 would conduct SAR, maritime surveillance, transport and recce. missions 150km around their respective bases. 1 (one) aircraft from each squadron would be airbourne conducting maritime surveillance or SAR at any time. It would use its RADAR actively to identiy surface contacts. It would fly at 100 knots at 3,000 feet under normal circumstances. When applicable, the squadrons would organise flight and patrol routes between them in order to maximise patrol area. The aircraft would stay within India's EEZ. No. 11 ADS would provide air defence against any detected air/missile threats that breach the Su-30 CAP. No. 401 Squadron Detachment West would conduct ELINT and IMINT operations. Its MiG-25RB and MiG-25RBK aircraft would be forward-based at Naliya AFS and would each fly once daily. The MiG-25RB would fly the red route, taking photos as it passes overhead. One MiG-25RBK would collect all ELINT emissions from between 50km to 450km away from the aircraft along the yellow MiG-25RBK route. The other would fly the blue route, doing the same as the other MiG-25RBK. Each MiG-25 would, after takeoff, ascend to 80,000 feet and accelerate to mach 2.35. The aircraft would stay outside of other nation's territorial airspace. CGAS 5, INAS 100 and 102 would fly maritime surveillance, SAR, and recce. missions within 400km of their respective bases. 1 (one) aircraft from each squadron would be airborne at any time. It would use its RADAR actively to identify surface contacts. It would fly at 200 knots at 6,000 feet under normal circumstances. When applicable, the squadrons would organise flight and patrol routes between them in order to maximise patrol area. The aircraft would stay within India's EEZ. 50 personnel from 2WNAW would be deployed to NAE Porbandar to assist INAS 101 with operations. INAS 101 and 103 would conduct maritime surveillance, patrol, SAR, anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare. INAS 101 would be based at NAE Porbandar. 1 (one) aircraft from each squadron would be airborne at any one time. Il-38SDs from INAS 101 would use their RADARs actively to identify surface and low-altitude aerial contacts, and both squadrons of aircraft would use sonobuoys and MAD to investigate sub-surface contacts. The Tu-142s would drop 80 sonobuoys along their patrol route, evenly spaced out from exiting Indian coastal waters to entering Indian coastal waters (coastal waters being 6nm to shore). INAS 101 aircraft would take the white route. INAS 103 aircraft would take the black route. The Il-38SDs (INAS 101) would fly at 200 knots at 50 feet with a multirole loadout (loadout "Multi-Role"). The Tu-142MK-Es (INAS 103) would fly at its cruise speed of 384 knots, at 1,000 feet with a multirole loadout (loadout "Multi-Role"). INAS 30 would assigned to conduct ASuW, maritime recce., point air defence and recce. missions in support of other Indian forces in the Arabian Sea. 2 (two) fighters would always be on stand-by for anti-shipping tasking (loadout "Anti-Ship"). IGS Sindhughosh job is to conduct ISR and ASW missions in the Arabian Sea. All systems would be operational, and they would have the endurance to stay out for 45 days if needed. She would also have a full war load of 15 TEST-71ME-NK torpedoes, 4 DM-1 mines and 8 MANPADS. The submarine would use no active SONAR or RADAR systems, and limit communications to combuoys and relayed communications through short-range VHF and UHF radios to Indian aircraft. IGS Sindhughosh would operate out of her home port of INS Vajrabahu. Whist on patrol, the submarine would travel at 9 knots. It would not enter into other nation's territorial waters. She would have a 5-man MARCOS platoon, from 2 Special Force, embarked for special operations. Once completing a patrol, Sindhughosh would return to her home port for 5 days for replenishment before leaving port again. The 1st Missile Vessel Squadron would assign one (1) of its Kora-class corvettes to constantly patrol, out to 100km, the water surrounding INS Agnibahu. All its systems would be operational and active, it would have enough supplies to operate until all its fuel was used up, and it would have a full weapons' load. It would conduct its patrols at 20 knots with air and surface search radar active. The 4th Patrol Squadron (now two OPVs stationed at ICGS Murud Janjira) would patrol up and down the coast, with one (1) out of its two (2) ships at any one time. Once the single vessel had completed its route, it would rest and replenish at the Patrol Squadron's home port of INS Angre (now ICGS Murud Janjira), and the other ship of the 4th Patrol Squadron would move off to patrol the same route. The patrolling vessel would have an embarked Dhruv Mk.II helicopter from INAS 12. This helicopter would conduct SAR, patrol and utility operations within 50km of the Sukanya-class patrol vessel. The patrol vessel's radars would be active.

Date/s: August, 2005 to present

Amendments 4th Patrol Squadron is disbanded; Sukanya crews tranferred to ICG - minus 20 personnel - 10AM 25/12/2024 OOC Notes routes to view are here GIASF personnel sub-total: 3820 GIN personnel sub-total: 6073 ICG personnel sub-total: 740

 

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With the transfer of all Sukanya-class patrol vessels from the Gandhi Indian Navy to the Indian Coast Guard - and their reclassification as Offshore Patrol Vessels - the 4th Patrol Squadron would be disbanded and its two vessels assigned to ICGS Murud Janjira, south of INS Angre. These vessels would continue as stated before, with the only difference being that; 1) they are operated by the ICG; 2) their routes would be adjusted to ensure proper and correct navigation, with the porting destination moved south. Their RADARs would behave as previously specified, and the Dhruvs from INAS 12 would continue operating from the two vessels.