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For their role in the war, the officers and ratings of the Navy received the following honours and decorations—a KBE (Mil.), a knighthood, a CB (Mil.), 10 CIEs, two DSOs, a CBE, 15 DSCs, an OBE, 28 DSMs, eight OBIs, two IOMs, 16 BEMs, 10 Indian Defence Service Medals, a Royal Humane Society Medal, 105 mentions in dispatches and 118 assorted ...
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, 17 conventionally powered attack submarines, 24 corvettes, eight landing craft utilities, ten large offshore patrol vessels, five fleet tankers as ...
Leased for 10 years but returned to Soviet Union in 1991 after 3 years. Decommissioned and scrapped 1992. Improved Akula I-class: INS Chakra: Russia: 4 April 2012 June 2021 8,140 tonnes Under a 10-year lease from Russia since 2012; returned 2021. Diesel-electric submarines (10) Kalvari class (Foxtrot-class) INS Kalvari (S23) INS Khanderi
The Royal Indian Navy, 1939–1945. Official History of the Indian Armed Forces in the Second World War. New Delhi: Combined Inter-Services Historical Section (India & Pakistan), 1964. Parkes, Oscar. Jane's Fighting Ships 1931. Newton Abbot, Devon, UK:Davis & Charles Reprints, 1931 (1973 reprint). ISBN 0-7153-5849-9. Singh, Satyindra (1992).
A flotilla of the Indian Navy's destroyers during Exercise Tropex 2023. In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, manoueverable, long-distance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller, short-range attackers. [1] [2] Seventeen destroyers have served, or currently serve, in ...
The increasing interest of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy in the Indian Ocean region [7] has led the Indian Navy to invest more in anti-submarine ships, such as the Kamorta-class corvette, long-range maritime reconnaissance aircraft such as the Boeing P-8 Poseidon and ships such as the Saryu-class patrol vessel [8] and unmanned ...
The Kolkata-class destroyers, also known Project 15A or Project 15 Alpha, are a class of stealth guided-missile destroyers constructed for the Indian Navy.The class comprises three ships – Kolkata, Kochi and Chennai, all of which were built by Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL) in India, and are the largest destroyers to be operated by the Indian Navy.
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]