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Vice Admiral Krishna Swaminathan takes charge as Western Naval Command chief

VAdm Krishna Swaminathan takes charge of Western Naval Command

Vice Admiral Krishna Swaminathan assumes control of India’s Navy’s “sword arm” as maritime security challenges intensify in Arabian Sea. Read More

Indian Navy appoints Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan new vice-chief

Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan takes command amid the Indian Navy’s focus on indigenous defence capabilities. Read More

Indian Navy successfully trials indigenous extended-range anti-submarine rocket system

Navy successfully tests indigenous extended-range anti-sub rockets

The Indian Navy has successfully completed user trials of the extended-range anti-submarine rockets, the Ministry of Defence said in a release. Read More

Sub Lieutenant Aastha Poonia breaks barriers as Indian Navy’s first woman fighter pilot

Sub Lt Aastha Poonia becomes Navy’s first woman fighter pilot

Sub Lieutenant Aastha Poonia has created history by becoming the first woman to be streamed into the fighter division of the Indian Navy’s aviation wing – Indian Naval Air Arm. Read More

Indian Navy commissions stealth frigate INS Tamal in Russia

INS Tamal is the eighth multi-role stealth frigate in Project 1135.6 and the second of the Tushil-class ships. Read More

Navy to commission multi-role Tushil-class frigate Tamal in Russia

India will be commissioning its latest stealth multi-role frigate on July 01 at Kaliningrad in Russia, christened as “Tamal”, which is the eighth ship in the series of Krivak class frigates inducted from Russia over the past two decades. Read More

Navy commissions anti-submarine warfare shallow-water craft INS Arnala

Indian Navy commissioned its first anti-submarine warfare shallow water craft – INS Arnala into the Eastern Naval Command in Visakhapatnam. Read More

Navika Sagar Parikrama II: Historic homecoming as Indian Navy women officers complete globe circumnavigation on INSV Tarini

Two Navy women officers script history with globe circumnavigation

Two Indian Navy officers – Lt Cdr Dilna K and Lt Cdr Roopa Alagirisamy – have become the first all-woman pair to circumnavigate the globe in double-handed mode. Read More

Indian Navy inducts stitched ship INSV Kaundinya, sails into ancient maritime history

Navy inducts INSV Kaundinya, sails into ancient maritime history

The Indian Navy ceremonially inducted INSV Kaundinya, a full-scale stitched sail ship inspired by the seafaring ingenuity of 5th-century India, into its sailing fleet. Read More

From Ajanta Caves to ocean waves, Indian Navy resurrects ‘ancient stitched ship’

From Ajanta to the oceans, Navy resurrects ‘ancient stitched ship’

The stitched ship’s not merely a story of with coir and timber but the essence of India’s maritime soul. Read More