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The Indian Navy currently operates three [1] commands — Western Naval Command located at Mumbai, Southern Naval Command located at Kochi and Eastern Naval Command located at Visakhapatnam. The Andaman and Nicobar Command, a unified Indian Navy, Army, Air Force and Coast Guard Command was set up in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in 2001. [2]
As of April 2024, the Indian Navy possesses two aircraft carriers, one amphibious transport dock, four tank landing ships, 13 destroyers, 14 frigates, 2 nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines, 16 conventionally powered attack submarines, 18 corvettes, eight landing craft utilities, ten large offshore patrol vessels, five fleet tankers as ...
The fleet of the Indian Navy is a mixture of domestic built and foreign vessels, as of May 2023, the surface fleet comprises 2 aircraft carriers, [172] [173] 1 amphibious transport dock, [174] 7 landing ship tanks, [174] [175] 13 destroyers, [172] 13 frigates, [176] [177] 20 corvettes, [176] [178] [179] [180] 10 large offshore patrol vessels ...
Pages in category "Fleets of the Indian Navy" ... Eastern Fleet (India) W. Western Fleet (India) This page was last edited on 27 September 2023, at 13:37 ...
Medical installations of the Indian Navy (2 P) Pages in category "Naval units and formations of India" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
The Western Fleet is a Naval fleet of the Indian Navy. It is known as the 'Sword Arm' of the Indian Navy. [1] It is headquartered at Mumbai, Maharashtra on the west coast of India. It is a part of the Western Naval Command and is responsible for the naval forces in the Arabian Sea and parts of the Indian Ocean.
On 1 March 1968, the Eastern Naval Command was established and the Indian Fleet was renamed as the Western Fleet. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] On 1 November 1971, the Eastern Fleet was constituted. Rear Admiral S H Sarma , PVSM was appointed as the Founding Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Fleet (FOCEF) who commanded the fleet during the Indo-Pakistani War of ...
Served as HMS Test in the Royal Navy before transfer to India. HMIS Shamsher: K392 River class: 1945 1947 Transferred to Pakistan and served as PNS Shamsher. Scrapped 1959. Served as HMS Nadder in the Royal Navy before transfer to India. HMIS Dhanush: K265 River class: 1945 1948 Transferred to Pakistan and served as PNS Dhanush.