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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.
Tajikistan – airbases at Farkhor and Western Dushanbe [1] [2] [3] - airbase at Ayni Air Force Base, also known as Gissar Air Base, is a military air base in Tajikistan, 10 km (6.2 mi) west of the capital Dushanbe.The base is jointly operated by the Indian Air Force and the Tajik Air Force. It is India's second overseas air base after Farkhor.
INS Varsha is a new naval base being developed under Project Varsha for the Indian Navy. This base will be the home of the navy's new fleet of nuclear submarines and ships. The nuclear assets of the Indian Navy come under the Strategic Forces Command for administrative and operational control.
Smaller numbers of overseas military bases are operated by China, Iran, India, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates. The United States is the largest operator of military bases abroad, with 38 "named bases" [ note 1 ] with active duty, national guard, reserve, or civilian personnel as of September 30, 2014.
INS Jarawa was then commissioned in 1964 as the base to oversee all naval operations on the islands. [2] The base is named for the indigenous adivasi Jarawa tribe of the Andaman islands. INS Magar, an amphibious warfare ship, was the first major vessel to have INS Jarawa as its home port. Construction of a naval wharf for the base started in 1968.
INS Satavahana is the premier Submarine Training Base of the Indian Navy and is located at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. [1] [2] Training is carried out by the Submarine School (SMS) and the Escape Training School (ETS) and the School of Advanced Undersea Warfare (SAUW).
The naval base in the port city of Calcutta (now Kolkata) began with a small HMI Naval Office under a naval control of the shipping officer, in the then Marine House.The port of Calcutta was strategic important during World War II so the Allied naval presence in India increased to safeguard and strengthen its maritime assets in East India and augment the logistic support capability to Allied ...
The first time a helicopter operated from the base was on a temporary grass helipad in 1964. Alouette flights thereafter continued to operate from the helipad, on a makeshift and as required basis. Finally, on 3 April 1972 ‘Bombay flight’ of the Goa-based INAS 321 was established with one Alouette III helicopter, two pilots and 17 sailors.