INDIAN NAVY DAY
( 4th Of December )
Indian Navy Day is celebrated on December 4, every year to commemorate the success of Operation Trident of Indian Navy that was carried out during the 1971 Indo-Pak war.
On December 4, 1971, the Indian Navy carried out Operation Trident, which was a devastating attack on Pakistan Naval Headquarters of Karachi. The attack irreparably damaged destroyers and oil storage tanks at the Karachi port. To commemorate this, December 4 is celebrated every year as the Indian Navy Day.
Here, we bring you 14 very interestingly amazing facts about the Navy of our country.
14 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT INDIAN NAVY
- Navy Day does not commemorate the day the Indian Navy was founded. Rather, it is the day the Indian Navy successfully executed Operation Trident, an attack on Pakistani Naval Headquarters in Karachi so it burnt for a week.
- Operation Trident saw the first use of anti-ship missiles in combat in the region.
- Pakistan lost a minesweeper, a destroyer, a cargo vessel carrying ammunition, and fuel storage tanks in Karachi.
- Sagar Pawan is one of the only two naval aerobatic teams in the world, the other being the Blue Angels of the US Navy.
- The Indian Navy's first independent mission was against the Portuguese Navy during the liberation of Goa in 1961.
- INS Viraat (R22), the seventh largest aircraft carrier in the world, is a Centaur-Class aircraft carrier operated by the Indian Navy. It is also the oldest carrier in the world, serving as the flagship of the Indian Navy. It was originally commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Hermes in 1959.
- Originally called the Royal Indian Navy, our supreme naval branch of the armed forces of India was founded in 1612 by the East India Company and renamed the Indian Navy on 26th January, 1950 after independence.
- During the 1971 Indo - Pakistani war, the Indian Navy fought one of the largest naval conflicts since the Second World War.
- As of October 2017, the operational fleet consists of :
1 aircraft carrier,
1 amphibious transport dock,
8 landing ship tanks,
11 destroyers,
14 frigates,
1 nuclear-powered attack submarine,
1 ballistic missile submarine,
13 conventionally-powered attack submarines,
24 corvettes,
4 mine countermeasure vessels,
4 fleet tankers and,
various other auxiliary vessels.
- In 2008, Indian Naval vessels were the first to launch international relief operations for victims of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar.
- Officer training is conducted at Indian Naval Academy (INA) at Ezhimala, on the coast of Kerala. Established in 2009, it is the largest naval academy in Asia.
- The 17th-century Maratha emperor Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj is considered as the 'Father of the Indian Navy'.
- MARCOS are very secretive unit of the Indian Navy. They are widely feared among the terrorists, who call them "Dadiwala fauj", meaning the "Bearded army" because of their bearded disguise in civil areas.
- Indian Navy was the first to send a submariner to an expedition on Mount Everest and it has also completed an expedition at north and south poles.
