Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi (left) shakes hands with outgoing Navy Chief Adm R Hari Kumar during a guard of honour ceremony before assuming charge as the 26th Navy chief at the South Block in New Delhi on Tuesday. PTI Photo
Ajay Banerjee
New Delhi, April 30
The new Indian Navy Chief Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi on Tuesday said his singular focus and endeavour would be to ensure that the Navy remains operationally ready to ‘win a war at sea’ when tasked to do so.
Admiral Tripathi assumed charge as the 26th chief of the Indian Navy after incumbent R Hari Kumar retired from service.
In his remarks after taking over, Admiral Tripathi said, “the existing and emerging challenges in the maritime domain mandate the Indian Navy to remain operationally ready to deter potential adversities at sea in peace and to ‘win the war at sea’ when asked to do.”
The Navy chief said, over the years, our Navy has evolved into a combat ready, cohesive, credible and future proof force.
The Admiral promised to strengthen the ongoing efforts of the Indian Navy towards self-reliance in new technologies and become an important pillar of nation’s development.
Admiral Tripathi said his priority will be to upskill the human resource, the men and women of our Navy, and provide them with the best armament, training, professional environment and administrative support.
An alumnus of Sainik School Rewa and National Defence Academy in Khadakwasla, he was commissioned on July 1, 1985 into the Executive Branch of the Indian Navy. Admiral Tripathi is a communication and electronic warfare specialist. He has served on frontline warships of the Navy as Signal Communication Officer and Electronic Warfare Officer and later as the Executive Officer and Principal Warfare Officer of the Guided Missile Destroyer Indian Naval Ship (INS) Mumbai.
Admiral Tripathi’s sea commands include INS Vinash, Kirch and Trishul.
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