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Notes Active (16) Kalvari class: Attack submarine: INS Kalvari France India: 2,000 tonnes Indian Scorpène-class variant. [2] INS Khanderi: INS Karanj: INS Vela: INS Vagir: Sindhughosh class: Attack submarine: INS Sindhughosh Soviet Union Russia: 3,076 tonnes Indian Kilo-class (Project 877) variant. INS Sindhuraj: INS Sindhuratna
Additionally, the Andaman and Nicobar Command is a unified Indian Navy, Indian Army, Indian Air Force, and Indian Coast Guard theater command based at the capital, Port Blair. [110] Commander-in-Chief, Andaman and Nicobar Command (CINCAN) receives staff support from, and reports directly to the Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee (COSC) in New ...
Class Commissioned Decommissioned Fate Notes INS Vikrant: R11 Majestic-class: 4 March 1961 31 January 1990 [2] Converted to IMS-Indian Museum Ship briefly but subsequently scrapped in 2014. Formerly HMS Hercules although never commissioned into the Royal Navy. INS Viraat: R22 Centaur-class: 12 May 1987 6 March 2017 Dismantled on 19 September 2020
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]
The Indian Navy hosted its first International Fleet Review in February 2001. This event was termed "Bridges of Friendship" and was attended by 24 warships form 19 countries. An office dedicated to international co-operation was created in 2005. This term has been used by the Navy since then to undertake humanitarian and security missions by ...
On 12 August 2013, the Indian Navy spotted an Iranian cargo ship Nafis-1 that was off-course in the Arabian Sea. Surveillance of the ship continued until 14 August, when a nine-strong MARCOS unit was deployed to intercept the ship via helicopter and support from the INS Mysore .
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]
All presently decommissioned Indian Navy destroyers were built in the United Kingdom and Soviet Union. The R-class INS Ranjit was the first destroyer commissioned by the navy; two more R-class ships were later commissioned. [4] Three Hunt-class destroyers were commissioned in 1953 to succeed the R-class destroyers. [5]