Rear Admiral Rahul Vilas Gokhale, NM is a serving Flag officer in the Indian Navy.

Gokhale attended the National Defence Academy and was commissioned into the Indian Navy on 1 January 1992.

He commanded the lead ship of her class of stealth guided-missile destroyers, INS Kolkata (D63).

The oldest naval establishment on East Coast, INS Circars is the base depot ship providing administrative and logistics support to the Headquarters of the Eastern Naval Command and a large number of units based in and around Visakhapatnam.

[1] After a year-long tenure, he relinquished charge and handed over to Rear Admiral Susheel Menon.