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Post Rank Name Photo Decorations Reference Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Naval Command: Vice Admiral: Sanjay Jasjit Singh: AVSM, NM [3]Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief
The Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS) is a statutory office held by the professional head of the Indian Navy (IN), the naval branch of the Indian Armed Forces. [3] Customarily held by a four-star admiral, the CNS is the senior-most operational officer of the IN, tasked with the roles of overseeing the force's overall functioning during states of peace and conflict, along with the realization of ...
Later Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff. [56] 37 Vice Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi AVSM, NM: 1 June 2021 28 February 2023 Current Chief of the Naval Staff. [57] 38 Vice Admiral Suraj Berry AVSM, NM, VSM: 1 April 2023 6 October 2023 Current Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Forces Command. [58] 39 Vice Admiral Krishna Swaminathan AVSM, VSM: 6 October ...
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Upon the establishment of establishment of India's independence in 1947, the country became a dominion within the British Commonwealth of Nations; nevertheless, the armed forces, namely, the British Indian Army (BIA), the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) and the Royal Indian Air Force (RIAF) - under the helm of King George VI as the Commander-in-Chief, retained their respective pre-independence ranks ...
On 1 March 1968, the Eastern Naval Command was established and the Indian Fleet was renamed as the Western Fleet. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] In September 1971, Rear Admiral S H Sarma was summoned by the Chief of the Naval Staff , Admiral S M Nanda who told him that he was to move to Visakhapatnam and take up command of the yet-to-be-formed Eastern Fleet . [ 10 ]
On 22 April 1958, Vice Admiral Katari assumed the command of the Indian Navy from Carlill as the first Indian Chief of Staff of the Indian Navy. [48] With the departure in 1962 of the last British officer on secondment to the Navy, Commodore David Kirke, the Chief of Naval Aviation, the Indian Navy finally became an entirely Indian service. [49]
Chief of Materiel (Indian Navy) Chief of the Naval Staff (India) Chief of Personnel (Indian Navy) Commandant of Indian Naval Academy; Commandant of the Naval War College, Goa; Commodore Commanding Submarines (East) Commodore Commanding Submarines (West)