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In May 2005, the Indian Navy commissioned {{INS|Kadamba}} at [[Karwar]], {{convert|100|km}} from [[Goa]].<ref name="INS Kadamba - Navy Official">{{cite web|title=INS Kadamba|url=https://www.indiannavy.nic.in/content/ins-kadamba|website=Indian Navy|access-date=16 July 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170731160529/https://www.indiannavy.nic.in/content/ins-kadamba|archive-date=31 July 2017}}</ref> Built under the first phase of the [[Project Seabird]], at first it was an exclusively Navy controlled base without sharing port facilities with commercial shipping.<ref name="INS Kadamba commissioned - The Hindu">{{cite news|author1=Ravi Sharma|title=INS Kadamba commissioned|url=http://www.thehindu.com/2005/06/01/stories/2005060105071400.htm|access-date=16 July 2017|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=June 2005}}{{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> The Indian Navy also has berthing rights in Oman and Vietnam.<ref name="Overseas Military Bases of a budding Super Power - India">{{cite web|title=Overseas Military Bases of a budding Super Power – India|url=http://www.defencenews.in/article/Overseas-Military-Bases-of-a-budding-Super-Power---India-119322|website=Defence News|access-date=16 July 2017|date=28 November 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170731150253/http://www.defencenews.in/article/Overseas-Military-Bases-of-a-budding-Super-Power---India-119322|archive-date=31 July 2017}}</ref> The Navy operates a monitoring station, fitted with radars and surveillance gear to intercept maritime communication, in [[Madagascar]]. It also plans to build a further 32 radar stations in Seychelles, Mauritius, Maldives and Sri Lanka.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} According to ''Intelligence Online'', published by a France-based global intelligence gathering organisation, Indigo Publications, the Navy is believed to be operating a listening post in Ras al-Hadd, Oman. The post is located directly across from Gwadar Port in Balochistan, Pakistan, separated by approximately {{convert|400|km}} of the Arabian Sea.<ref name="Indian Listening Station In Oman Monitoring Pakistan's Naval Communications [RUMINT]">{{cite web|title=Indian Listening Station in Oman Monitoring Pakistan's Naval Communications|url=http://www.aame.in/2013/02/indian-listening-station-in-oman.html|website=AA Me, IN|access-date=16 July 2017|date=27 February 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170731145401/http://www.aame.in/2013/02/indian-listening-station-in-oman.html|archive-date=31 July 2017}}</ref> | In May 2005, the Indian Navy commissioned {{INS|Kadamba}} at [[Karwar]], {{convert|100|km}} from [[Goa]].<ref name="INS Kadamba - Navy Official">{{cite web|title=INS Kadamba|url=https://www.indiannavy.nic.in/content/ins-kadamba|website=Indian Navy|access-date=16 July 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170731160529/https://www.indiannavy.nic.in/content/ins-kadamba|archive-date=31 July 2017}}</ref> Built under the first phase of the [[Project Seabird]], at first it was an exclusively Navy controlled base without sharing port facilities with commercial shipping.<ref name="INS Kadamba commissioned - The Hindu">{{cite news|author1=Ravi Sharma|title=INS Kadamba commissioned|url=http://www.thehindu.com/2005/06/01/stories/2005060105071400.htm|access-date=16 July 2017|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=June 2005}}{{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> The Indian Navy also has berthing rights in Oman and Vietnam.<ref name="Overseas Military Bases of a budding Super Power - India">{{cite web|title=Overseas Military Bases of a budding Super Power – India|url=http://www.defencenews.in/article/Overseas-Military-Bases-of-a-budding-Super-Power---India-119322|website=Defence News|access-date=16 July 2017|date=28 November 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170731150253/http://www.defencenews.in/article/Overseas-Military-Bases-of-a-budding-Super-Power---India-119322|archive-date=31 July 2017}}</ref> The Navy operates a monitoring station, fitted with radars and surveillance gear to intercept maritime communication, in [[Madagascar]]. It also plans to build a further 32 radar stations in Seychelles, Mauritius, Maldives and Sri Lanka.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} According to ''Intelligence Online'', published by a France-based global intelligence gathering organisation, Indigo Publications, the Navy is believed to be operating a listening post in Ras al-Hadd, Oman. The post is located directly across from Gwadar Port in Balochistan, Pakistan, separated by approximately {{convert|400|km}} of the Arabian Sea.<ref name="Indian Listening Station In Oman Monitoring Pakistan's Naval Communications [RUMINT]">{{cite web|title=Indian Listening Station in Oman Monitoring Pakistan's Naval Communications|url=http://www.aame.in/2013/02/indian-listening-station-in-oman.html|website=AA Me, IN|access-date=16 July 2017|date=27 February 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170731145401/http://www.aame.in/2013/02/indian-listening-station-in-oman.html|archive-date=31 July 2017}}</ref> | ||
The navy operates {{INS|Kattabomman}}, a [[Very low frequency|VLF]] and [[Extremely low frequency|ELF]] transmission facility at Vijayanarayanapuram near [[Tirunelveli]] in Tamil Nadu.<ref name="INS Kattabomman">{{cite web|title=INS Kattabomman|url=https://www.indiannavy.nic.in/node/5237|website=Indian Navy|access-date=16 July 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160930184839/http://www.indiannavy.nic.in/node/5237|archive-date=30 September 2016}}</ref> {{INS|Abhimanyu}} and {{INS|Karna}} are two bases dedicated for MARCOS.<ref name="INS Abhimanyu">{{cite web|title=INS Abhimanyu|url=https://www.indiannavy.nic.in/node/5059|website=Indian Navy|access-date=16 July 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160930192553/http://indiannavy.nic.in/node/5059|archive-date=30 September 2016}}</ref><ref name="Admiral Lanba commissions Marine Commandos unit ‘INS Karna’">{{cite news|author1=G. S. Subrahmanyam|title=Admiral Lanba commissions Marine Commandos unit 'INS Karna'|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/Admiral-Lanba-commissions-Marine-Commandos-unit-%E2%80%98INS-Karna%E2%80%99/article14485015.ece|newspaper=The Hindu|access-date=16 July 2017|date=12 July 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161223224633/http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/Admiral-Lanba-commissions-Marine-Commandos-unit-%E2%80%98INS-Karna%E2%80%99/article14485015.ece|archive-date=23 December 2016}}</ref> [[INS Varsha|Project Varsha]] is a highly classified project undertaken by the Navy to construct a hi-tech base under the Eastern Naval Command. | |||
== Aircraft carriers == | == Aircraft carriers == | ||