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The Indian Navy is also acquiring 30 autonomous underwater vehicles. [336] The Indian Navy is planning to procure 22 General Atomics Sea Guardian drones at an estimated cost of $2 billion. [337] This is the first instance of General Atomics drones being sold to a non-NATO military. [337]
The Indian Navy (IN), which is the naval warfare branch of the Indian Armed Forces, has approximately 135+ warships on active commission. [1]By forethought, the IN's Maritime Capability Perspective Plan (MCPP) for the period 2012-2027 had set the objective of the service becoming a 200-ship fleet by 2035; however, that number has since been reduced to 175 in December 2019 - principally owing ...
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]
She was sunk off the coast of Diu, Gujarat, India by the Pakistan Navy Daphné-class submarine Hangor on 9 December 1971 during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. It was the first warship sunk in action by a submarine since World War II. It is the post-independence Indian navy's only warship to have been lost in war. [2] [3]
Operation Nistar(India) (2018) - Operation by the Indian Navy using INS Sunayna to evacuate Indian citizens from Yemen Island of Socotra who were stranded by Cyclone Mekenu. Operation Madad (2018) - Indian Navy had launched Operation Madad, major rescue, and relief operation in flood-hit Kerala. The operation was launched to assist state ...
INS Talwar (F40) (lit. ' Sword ') is the lead ship of the Talwar-class frigates of the Indian Navy.Its name means "Sword" in Hindi (see Talwar).She was built in Russia, and commissioned into the Indian Navy on 18 June 2003.
The class and its vessels are named for Indian islands. They are the first water jet propelled vessels of the Indian Navy. [3] INS Kabra was commissioned by Vice Admiral K.N. Sushil, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Southern Naval Command, at the Kochi naval base on 8 June 2011. [2]
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.