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Vice admiral is a three-star flag officer rank in the Indian Navy.It is the second-highest active rank in the Indian Navy. Vice admiral ranks above the two-star rank of rear admiral and below the four-star rank of admiral, which is held by the Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS).
Vice Admiral: Gurcharan Singh: AVSM, NM [32] Commandant Indian Naval Academy: C. R. Praveen Nair: NM [33] Commandant Naval War College, Goa: Rear Admiral: Arjun Dev Nair: VSM [34] Commandant Military Institute of Technology: Nelson D’Souza NM [35] Chief Instructor (Navy) Defence Services Staff College: R. Vinod Kumar [36] Senior Directing ...
The Vice Chief of the Naval Staff (VCNS) is a statutory position in the Indian Armed Forces, that is usually held by a three star vice admiral.The Vice Chief is the deputy of the Chief of the Naval Staff and is usually the second highest ranking officer of the Indian Navy.
On 19 April 2024, the Government of India appointed Vice Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi as the next Chief of the Naval Staff. [2] On 30 April 2024, Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi took over as the 26th Chief of the Naval Staff succeeding Admiral R. Hari Kumar, who superannuated after more than four decades of service to the nation. [3]
Vice Admiral Kiran Deshmukh, AVSM, VSM is a serving Flag officer in the Indian Navy. He currently serves as the Chief of Materiel. He earlier served as the Controller Warship Production and Acquisition and as the Admiral Superintendent Naval Dockyard (Visakhapatnam).
[13] [14] He took over as the Flag Officer Commanding Western Fleet on 10 November 2023 from Rear Admiral Vineet McCarty. [15] After a nine-month tenure as FOCWF, he was promoted to the rank of Vice Admiral and appointed Commandant of Indian Naval Academy, Ezhimala. He took over as Commandant on 29 August 2024. [12]
Vice Admiral Sanjay Bhalla, AVSM, NM is a serving Flag officer in the Indian Navy. He currently serves as the Chief of Personnel. He previously served as the Chief of Staff, Western Naval Command and as the Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Fleet.
On 1 March 1971, Vice Admiral Nilakanta Krishnan took over as FOC-in-C, the first three-star officer to lead the command. [ 9 ] The oldest naval establishment of the Eastern Seaboard was the INS Circars, Visakhapatnam , which was identified as "an important convoy assembly point" for the Royal Indian Navy flotillas.