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The Indian Navy is the maritime branch of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Navy. The Chief of Naval Staff, a four-star admiral, commands the navy. As a blue-water navy, it operates significantly in the Persian Gulf Region, the Horn of Africa, the Strait of Malacca, and routinely conducts ...
As of April 2024, the Indian Navy possesses two aircraft carriers, one amphibious transport dock, four tank landing ships, 12 destroyers, 12 frigates, two nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines, 16 conventionally powered attack submarines, 18 corvettes, eight landing craft utilities, ten large offshore patrol vessels, five fleet tankers ...
INS Sagardhwani (A74) ( Hindi : सागरध्वनि - Voice of the Sea) is a marine acoustic research ship (MARS) owned by the Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL), a DRDO laboratory and is maintained and operated by the Indian Navy, and based at Southern Naval Command, Kochi. [4] INS Sagardhwani in Kochi on the occasion ...
The Indian Naval Academy (INA or INA Ezhimala) is the defence service training establishment for officer cadre of the Indian Naval Service and the Indian Coast Guard, located in Ezhimala, Kannur district, Kerala. Situated between Ezhimala hill and the Kavvayi backwaters, INA has a 7 kilometre beach front on the Laccadive Sea.
The Indian Navy frigates INS Godavari and INS Betwa captured the freighter, rescued the hostages and arrested the mercenaries near the Sri Lankan coast. [55] During the 2006 Lebanon War, the Indian Navy launched Operation Sukoon to successfully evacuate 2280 persons from Lebanon, including Indian, 436 Sri Lankan and 69 Nepali and 7 Lebanese ...
Seaman Ist class. सीमैन फर्स्ट क्लास. Seaman IInd class. सीमैन सेकंड क्लास. Since 1950, the designation of Chief Petty Officer was the highest non-commissioned rank in IN's rank hierarchy until December 1968, when the designations of Master Chief Petty Officer I and Master Chief ...
As of November 2023, the Indian Navy has 67 vessels of various types under construction including destroyers, frigates, corvettes, conventional-powered and nuclear-powered submarines and various other ships. [ 1] It plans to build up to a total of 200 vessels and 500 aircraft by 2050. According to the Chief of the Naval Staff 's statement in ...
Retrieved 2 August 2023 – via Twitter. ^ Bureau, The Hindu (9 January 2024). "Rear Admiral Upal Kundu assumes charge as Chief of Staff at Southern Naval Command". The Hindu. Retrieved 12 January 2024. ^ "Vice Admiral Gurcharan Singh takes over as Commandant, National Defence Academy". pib.gov.in. Retrieved 27 May 2024.