DEFENCE 6

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Naval Training Centres
*INS Venduruthy - Kochi
*INS Dronacharya - Kochi
*INS Garuda - Kochi
*INS Kunjali - " Mumbai
*INS Hamla - Mumbai
*INS Angre - Mumbai
*INS Asvini - Mumbai 
*College of Naval warfare - Mumbai
*INS Shivaji - Lonavala
*INS Satavahana - Vishakhapatanam
*INS Circars - Visakhapatanam
*INS Chilka - Orissa
*Hansa - Goa
*Valsura - Jamnagar (Gujarat)
*Naval academy - Goa

INS Vikramaditya
*India’s First Warship to have an ATM facility
Ans : ‘INS Vikramaditya’ (SBI ATM)
* India’s biggest ship, aircraft carrier 
Ans : ‘INS Vikramaditya’
*INS Vikramaditya was commissioned by
Ans : A.K. Antony In Russia
*INS Vikramaditya was commissioned on
Ans : 16th November 2013
*INS Vikramaditya was formally inducted into Indian Navy by
Ans : Narendra Modi (14th June 2014)
*Russian built Admiral Gorshov entered into Indian Navy as
Ans : ‘INS Vikramaditya’
*First Indian chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral R.D. Katari The first indigenously made main battle tank of India 
Ans : ‘Vijayanta’.
*The Navy has two fleets, the western fleet and the eastern fleet.
*Indian Navy has two major naval air bases at 
Ans : Goa and Arkonam (Tamil Nadu).
*The first major engagement of the Indian Navy 
Ans : Operation Vijay (1961)
*The biggest Naval base of Indian Navy
Ans : INS Kadamba (‘sea bird’ in Karnataka) 
*The first submarine Museum of India was 
Ans : INS Kursura at Visakhapatanam
*The biggest officers training institute in Asia 
Ans : Ezhimala Naval Academy (Kannur)

*India’s first indigenously constructed nuclear submarine.
*Launched in 26th July 2009 by Mahmohan Singh.
*Narendra Modi commissioned Arihant on August 2016.
*Design of INS Arihant is based on Russian Akula-1 class submarines.

Rare fact
*Father of indian Navy
Ans : Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj