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Southernmost Air station – INS Baaz
October 28 , 2019
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- Navy Chief Admiral Karambir Singh visited INS Baaz, the southernmost air station of the Indian Armed Forces.
- The Indian Naval Ship (INS) ‘Baaz’ was commissioned in July 2012.
- It is a part of the Andaman and Nicobar Command, the only tri-services formation of the Indian Armed Forces that was started in 2001.
Strategic Location
- It is located at Campbell Bay on the Great Nicobar island, the southernmost and largest island of the Nicobar Islands, in the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
- The location has been described as India’s “window into East and Southeast Asia”.
- It is in close vicinity of the Six Degree Channel, one of the Indian Ocean’s busiest shipping lines, carrying strategic cargo to East Asian countries.
- It is also close to the Strait of Malacca.
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