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.