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The Indian Navy frigates INS Godavari and INS Betwa captured the freighter, rescued the hostages and arrested the mercenaries near the Sri Lankan coast. [56] 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 ...
The Indian Navy is also acquiring 30 autonomous underwater vehicles. [336] The Indian Navy is planning to procure 22 General Atomics Sea Guardian drones at an estimated cost of $2 billion. [337] This is the first instance of General Atomics drones being sold to a non-NATO military. [337]
A white ensign, featuring the flag of India in the canton, and a navy blue filled, gold-bordered octagon, enclosing the crest of the Indian Navy, located in the fly. The Indian Naval Ensign , also referred to as the Indian White Ensign , or Nishaan , is the naval ensign of the Indian Navy (IN), used aboard Indian naval vessels , shore ...
The Indian Navy (IN), which is the naval warfare branch of the Indian Armed Forces, has approximately 135+ warships on active commission. [1]By forethought, the IN's Maritime Capability Perspective Plan (MCPP) for the period 2012-2027 had set the objective of the service becoming a 200-ship fleet by 2035; however, that number has since been reduced to 175 in December 2019 - principally owing ...
Over time it was named the Bombay Marine (1686), the Bombay Marine Corps (1829), the Indian Navy (1830), Her Majesty's Indian Navy (1858), the Bombay and Bengal Marine (1863), the Indian Defence Force (1871), Her Majesty's Indian Marine (1877) and the Royal Indian Marine (1892). It was finally named the Royal Indian Navy in 1934.
The Western Naval command of the Indian Navy has been named INS Angre, in commemoration of Admiral Kanhoji Angre. [19] The Indian Navy has named two of its submarines as INS Khanderi after a Maratha sea fort of same name [20] The Indian Postal Service released a commemorative stamp depicting a Gurab and Pal of the Maratha fleet. [21]
The Royal Navy continued to station ships in Ireland, in accordance with the Anglo-Irish Treaty until 1938. [2] After Ireland's independence, the Royal Navy presence generally consisted of two destroyers, with one usually anchored in the Cobh roadstead, opposite Haulbowline , and another either on roving patrol, or moored at Berehaven.
The Indian Navy's first aircraft carrier was commissioned as INS Vikrant on 4 March 1961 in Belfast by Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, the Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. [ 7 ] [ 11 ] The name Vikrant was derived from the Sanskrit word vikrānta meaning "stepping beyond", "courageous" or "bold".