China without a single base in IOR will control it , funny .Atleast US has a base here.PLAN can do squat in IOR.
Who said anything about China controlling the Indian Ocean?
Read carefully and you will see that I said that currently the US Navy controls the IOR but that China will start contesting from the next decade onwards. China will first concentrate it's resources in SCS and the Western Pacific before it commits it's Navy to IOR in a major way but you can be sure that it will station major resources including a full carrier battle group into the IOR sometime in the next decade.
These two, US and China, will be so far ahead of any other countries in military capabilities that it is not worth talking about anyone else.
In next few decades , China will find it difficult to control SCS , let alone project power in IOR.
China will dominate the SCS and the Western Pacific up to Hawaii by 2030. This is a long-term Chinese goal and there is nothing any country, not even the US, can do about this.
Why would Russia or UK do that ?? Because a bangladeshi has wetdreamsaboutthat..............
The point is that they could if they wanted to.
I said it to illustrate that if India can't even take on the UK and Russian Navy's highly advanced SSNs, which are many generations more advanced than your Arihant SSN, then you have no credibility to claim that Indian can control IOR.