Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko te rereketanga nui o te kaha o te Navy o Inia me te tuunga i tino whakaatuhia i te Pakanga Indo-Pakistani o 1971. I raro i te whakahau a Admiral Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda, i angitu te ope moana ki te aukati i te uru me te rawhiti o Pakistan. Ko te kaipuke moana roa o Pakistan i whakangaromia i muri i te whakaeke a te kaipuke whakangaromanga i te takutai o Visakhapatnam i te waenganui po o te 3 me te 4 o Tihema 1971. I te 4 o Tihema, i tutuki pai te mahi a te Navy Indian
Operation Trident, he whakaeke whakangaromanga ki te Tumuaki Naval o Pakistan o Karachi i whakamakuku i tetahi kaipuke minesweeper, he kaipuke whakangaromanga me tetahi kaipuke tuku patu. Ko te whakaeke hoki i kino kino ki tetahi atu kaipuke whakangaromanga me nga ipu penapena hinu i te tauranga o Karachi. Hei whakanui i tenei, ka whakanuihia te 4 o Tihema hei Ra Navy. I whai ake i tenei ko te Operation Python i te 8 o Tihema 1971, i kaha ake te whakaheke i nga kaha o te Pakistan Navy. Ko te kaipuke Indian, i whakahaua e Kapene M. N. Mulla i whakangaromia e, i te wa i whara i te takutai ki te hauauru. I te Bay o Bengal, i tohaina te kaipuke rererangi ki te whakatinana angitu i te aukati moana ki East Pakistan. Ko te Sea Hawk me te rererangi Alizé mai i INS "Vikrant" i whakamakuku i nga kaipuke pupuhi me nga kaipuke kaipuke kaipuke Pakistan. Hei whakaatu i tōna kotahitanga hei hoa o Pakistan, ka tonoa e te United States te Task Force 74 e hāngai ana ki te kaikawe waka rererangi ki te Bay o Bengal. Hei whakautu, i whai nga kaipuke moana o te Soviet Navy i te roopu mahi a Amerika, i neke atu i te Moana Inia ki te Tonga ki te Tonga o Ahia ki te karo i te pakanga. I te mutunga, ko te aukati moana a Inia o Pakistan i aukati i te tuku whakapakari ki nga ope Pakistani, i kitea he mea nui ki te hinga o Pakistan.