Navy Day 2025 | 03 Dec 2025

Why in News? 

The Indian Navy will celebrate Navy Day 2025 with a large-scale Operational Demonstration at Shangumugham Beach in Thiruvananthapuram on 3rd–4th December 2025. 

• The President of India and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces will attend as the Chief Guest, and the event will be hosted by Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi, Chief of the Naval Staff. 

Key Points

Operational Demonstration 2025 

• Outreach: The celebration continues the Navy’s initiative to organise Navy Day events beyond major naval bases, after earlier editions in Puri and Sindhudurg. 
• Showcase: The Operational Demonstration will exhibit India’s maritime strength through coordinated actions by warships, naval aircraft and submarines. 
• Readiness: The demonstration reinforces the Indian Navy’s theme of being “Combat Ready, Cohesive and Self-Reliant,” committed to protecting India’s maritime interests. 
• Self-Reliance: Indigenously built naval platforms will be highlighted, supporting the national vision of Self-Reliant India and the Make in India initiative. 

Navy Day 

• Commemoration: Navy Day is celebrated on 4^th December to honour India’s decisive naval victory during Operation Trident in the 1971 India–Pakistan War. 
• Strike: During Operation Trident, Indian Navy missile boats successfully hit Pakistani ships, oil facilities and shore defences at Karachi. 
  • The Indian Navy destroyed multiple Pakistani vessels carrying vital war supplies, weakening Pakistan’s operational capability. 
• Airpower: Fighter aircraft from INS Vikrant attacked enemy harbours and airfields at Chittagong and Khulna—strikes that, along with missile attacks on Karachi, played a key role in defeating Pakistani forces in East Pakistan.