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Three Immediate Support Vessels Commissioned in Indian Navy

March 25, 2015

Three Immediate Support Vessels (ISVs) were commissioned on 24 March 2015 in Indian Navy at the Eastern Naval Command (ENC) base in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. These three ISVs are second batch of the vessels and have joined the 84th ISV ..

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DAC gives nod to MCMV project

March 1, 2015

Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) on 28 February 2015 gave approval for afresh Mine Counter Measure Vessel (MCMV) project worth over Rs 32,000 crore. This decision was taken by DAC meeting chaired by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar. MCMV project will built ..

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Annual exercise TROPEX 2015 of Indian Navy concludes

February 28, 2015

Indian Navy’s Theatre Level Readiness and Operational Exercise (TROPEX) exercise concluded on 27 February 2015. TROPEX-2015  was a month long exercise aimed at validating the Indian Navy’s Concept of Operations and the area of operations spanned the Arabian Sea and ..

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India successfully test-fires BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from INS Kolkata

February 14, 2015

India has successfully test-fired its 290-km range BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from the Navy’s indigenously built destroyer INS Kolkata. The successful test fire of missile took place off the Goa coast after it met all its designed test parameters. Thus, ..

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Indian Navy conducted HADR Exercise in Lakshadweep Islands

February 12, 2015

Indian Navy had conducted Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster relief (HADR) exercise in Lakshadweep Islands (Kavaratti, Aggatti, Kalpeni and Androth). HADR was Indian Navy’s large scale exercise to test its readiness for handling a tsunami like disasters in order to provide ..

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43rd Navy Day Observed on 4th December 2014

December 5, 2014

43rd Navy Day Observed was observed on 4th December 2014. On this occasion, Chief of Naval staff Robin K Dhowan along with Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha and Army Chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag also paid tributes to martyrs of ..

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Defence minister inaugurates Information Management and Analysis Centre (IMAC) in Gurgaon

November 24, 2014

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has inaugurated the Information Management and Analysis Centre (IMAC) located in Gurgaon. It is a joint initiative of Indian Navy, Coast Guard and Bharat Electronics Ltd to improve coastal surveillance and to provide coastal security to ..

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Torpedo Recovery Vessel of Indian Navy sinks off the Visakhapatnam

November 6, 2014

On 6th November 2014, a Torpedo Recovery Vessel, TRV-72 of Indian Navy sank within 10-15 kms off Vizag port, near Visakhapatnam coast during a naval exercise. One sailor was killed in the incident while three others went missing. At the ..

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MiG-29KUB performs first landing on INS Vikramaditya

July 31, 2012

MiG-29KUB, a Russian-built fighter jet made the first landing on the INS Vikramaditya during sea trials. INS Vikramaditya It is the rechristened name of former Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov, which has been procured by India. The ship is a ..

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INS Sahyadri commissioned to Navy

July 22, 2012

The Navy commissioned one of its most futuristic warships INS Sahyadri at Mumbai-based Western Naval Command headquarters. It will further embolden its stealth and anti-submarine warfare competence. INS Sahyadri is the last ship in the series of stealth warships after ..

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