NEW DELHI: India continues to maintain shut tabs on Chinese language warships and spy vessels within the Indian Ocean Area (IOR), even because it gears as much as host the navies of each the US and Russia, amongst 55 international locations, on the ‘Milan’ maritime train and Worldwide Fleet Evaluate (IFR) at Visakhapatnam in Feb.“There’s a steady presence of extra-regional powers within the IOR as a result of ongoing state of affairs. It has all the time been like that, and it is solely growing,” Navy vice chief Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan stated on Friday.“At any given cut-off date, we’ve a minimal of 40 working in IOR, but it surely goes even past 50 warships. We’re monitoring each certainly one of them. We’re conscious of what they’re doing, what they’re more likely to do, once they are available in, once they exit,” he added.With the world’s largest Navy with over 370 warships and submarines, China has been steadily bolstering its “underwater area consciousness” within the IOR by way of nearly everlasting deployment of survey and analysis ‘spy vessels’ to map oceanographic and different information helpful for navigation and submarine operations, as was reported by TOI earlier.Vice Admiral Vatsayan additionally stated that Operation Sindoor, which India had launched in opposition to Pakistan in Could, remains to be in progress. “The message to be conveyed with our ongoing workouts with international international locations is that our plans are in place with none hindrance. We’re prepared and deployed as a part of Operation Sindoor at current and sooner or later,” Vice Admiral Vatsayan stated.The Navy will host the Milan train, IFR and the Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS) conclave of chiefs at Vizag from Feb 15 to 25. “Each the US and Russia have confirmed their presence and can ship ships for the (Milan) train,” Vice Admiral Vatsayan stated.Japan and Australia, each companions within the ‘Quad’ with India and US, would even be taking part within the train. India has not invited China, Pakistan and Turkiye for the occasions.