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many many moons ago I can see this being 'discussed" but not posted i think (MBD-if-RP).
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Let’s Talk About This Terrific Indian Sea Harrier Picture
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https://twitter.com/therimaahmed/status ... 96675?s=20 ---> Kalyani Sen, a second officer and the first Indian service woman who visited the UK, served in the Women's Royal Indian Naval Service of The Royal Indian Navy during World War II. Incredible woman.

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https://twitter.com/therimaahmed/status ... 69218?s=20 ---> The "Wrins" or the Women’s Royal Indian Naval Service played an imperative role during World War II, yet their story is in danger of being lost in the pages of history. Here they are in action- sistas did not come to play.

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Twitter thread on Captain MN Mulla....

https://twitter.com/Maverickmusafir/sta ... 11104?s=20 ---> “His last cigarette"
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https://twitter.com/RowlandWhite/status ... 62240?s=20 ---> A US military photo of an Indian Navy Sea Harrier - that had probably lent its radar to the Royal Navy to take to the Falklands - performing a Farley climb at the 1982 Farnborough Air Show. Loving the the results of this multinational effort!

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More on the late John Farley ---> http://www.airdisplaymuseum.com/johnfarley.html

John Farley flying the first Indian Harrier.

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https://twitter.com/shekhar19541/status ... 64866?s=20 ---> Admiral Arun Prakash (retd) with John Farley at the handing over ceremony of first Indian Navy Sea Harrier at Dunsfold in the borough of Waverley, Surrey, England.

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Vice Admiral John Thomas Gosling Pereira, one of the last surviving officers who had served in the Second World War, passes away.
The 97-year-old highly decorated officer was born February 15, 1923. JTG, as he was known, is best remembered as the Chief Staff Officer (Technical) of the Western naval Command ahead of the 1971 Indo Pak conflict, overseeing the preparations of the OSA Class Missile Boats for the missile attack on Karachi, and the unconventional repairs to the boilers of INS Vikrant before she was deployed in the Bay of Bengal.
JTG lived his life in the Naval Dockyard nurturing it from a small repair yard into a sophisticated strategic asset. A naval veteran said, "A little known fact is that Admiral Pereira maintained a close confidential liaison through the 1970s between the Navy and the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) to form a nucleus around which the nuclear submarine programme could take off in 1985."
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RIP braveheart!
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Remembering Vice Admiral Krishnan: Indian Navy's Great Combat Leader
https://thedailyguardian.com/rememberin ... at-leader/
08 June 2020

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Remembering the Admiral who shed his vice and built the Navy
https://thedailyguardian.com/rememberin ... -the-navy/
15 August 2020

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How Delhi and Mysore pioneered Indian Navy’s blue water odyssey
https://thedailyguardian.com/how-delhi- ... r-odyssey/
06 July 2020

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On Mahatma’s birthday, remembering Indian Navy’s pre-independence journey
https://thedailyguardian.com/on-mahatma ... e-journey/
02 October 2020

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A long saga from Kalvari to Kalvari
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Vi ... 285353.ece
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https://twitter.com/strategic_front/sta ... 63585?s=20 ---> Indian naval ensign going up for the first time on the INS Kalvari S(23) on December 8,1967 in Riga, USSR. The Indian Navy's First Submarine.

https://twitter.com/strategic_front/sta ... 55816?s=20 ---> On December 8, 1967 when Commander K.S. Subramanian read out the commissioning warrant at Vladivostok, little did he know that he was heralding a force that would one day be a nuclear force and will complete the nuclear triad for the country.

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https://twitter.com/arunp2810/status/13 ... 81216?s=20 ---> ...and this ‘laser-nose’ Harrier TMk 4 converted to T Mk 60 standard for IN. ⁦Awaiting its final deck-spot.

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https://twitter.com/probirpaymate/statu ... 62145?s=20 ---> And where it all started with both their precursors - the angry Hornet sounding, bull dog looking ASW Breguet Alize 1050 flown by INDIAN NAVY for 30 years (1961-1991) distinguished battle honors in 3 wars! [L to R: Lt Cdr 'Micky' M.K. Roy, H.E. Ali Yavar Jung, Lt Raj 'Andy' Anderson.

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Operation Sea Devil
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https://twitter.com/singhshwetabh71/sta ... 73922?s=20 ---> IN 501 in two tone camo. Looks so good.

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What a beautiful photo. Damn good!

https://twitter.com/Justice_4Vizag/stat ... 17412?s=20 ---> Indian Navy Legends In A Single Pic At Vizag...

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Fantastic pic. Those wings look so elegant.
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Rakesh wrote:On Mahatma’s birthday, remembering Indian Navy’s pre-independence journey
https://thedailyguardian.com/on-mahatma ... e-journey/
02 October 2020

By Commodore Srikant B Kesnur
Very informative article but don't get why he needs to sprinkle MKG and LBS birthdays into what is essentially celebrating RIN raising day!
Lots of data on RIN and its exploits in WWII.

To begin at the beginning, the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) was set up on 02 Oct 1934, with its headquarters at Mumbai under the Flag Officer Commanding Royal Indian Navy (FOCRIN). In his book ‘Under Two Ensigns’ the Navy’s pioneering historian the late Rear Admiral Satyindra Singh says “Between 1934 and 1939 the RIN was developed into a small and efficient naval force and by the time the WW 2 broke out, the RIN Fleet comprised five sloops, a survey vessel, a patrol ship, a depot ship and large number of small craft. Recommendations were made in 1939 for assigning greater responsibility for the naval defence of India to the RIN and for the modernisation of Service….the personnel strength of the RIN on 01 Oct 1939 was 114 Officers and 1732 ratings with only sixteen officers as the Headquarters Staff’.....
The outbreak of WW 2 changed everything. Ships were commissioned and inducted at rapid rate, many of them built in India. Merchant ships were armed and requisitioned for war. Naval Headquarters shifted to Delhi in March 1941. RIN ships operated across wide swathes of ocean in different campaign theatres – Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Gulf of Aden, Mediterranean, Atlantic, Bay of Bengal, Arakan coast, Southern Indian Ocean and so on. Raids, Amphibious operations, Merchant ship escort, joint operations with Indian army, Minesweeping Operations, Coastal defence and variety of other tasks were carried out with distinction by this fledgling force. RIN ships were also part of British Commonwealth Occupation Forces (BCOF) in Japan after the war.
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It was in this crucible that the young officers and sailors of those times were baptised. By the end of the war, and thereafter, the Indian component in RIN had only got bigger. Further, the RINR (Royal Indian Naval Reserve) and RINVR (Royal Indian Naval Volunteer Reserve) had also been constituted to aid war effort. In addition, as a war time measure Women’s Royal Indian Naval Service (WRINS) was introduced in 1943. They were primarily employed in Communications and Signals duties. This branch was disbanded in 1947 but their story holds the promise of a separate article in itself.

During the war, two young Indian Officers Lt N Krishnan (later VAdm and FOCinC East during Indo Pak war 1971) and Lt Daya Shankar (later RAdm and Controller General Defence Production) were awarded Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) for their acts of gallantry. Lt SG Karmarkar (later RAdm) was awarded MBE for skilfully navigating HMIS Ratnagiri through uncharted waters, in landing operations off Eritrean coast. The CO of HMIS Bengal Lt Cdr WJ Wilson (RINR) was awarded the DSO while his second in command Jai Mehra was awarded an MBE and two gun crew, Leading Seaman Ismail Mohammed and Petty Officer Mohammed were awarded gallantry medals. Two RINR officers KP Rahalkar and FS Sopher were involved in picking up survivors of HMIS Sophie Marie which stuck a mine and was lost at sea. Many Indians – Katari, Soman, Chakravarti, Karmarkar, Chatterji, Krishnan also commanded ships or smaller craft during the war, gaining invaluable experience.

The war also resulted in massive expansion in training and maintenance infrastructure and baby steps in indigenous shipbuilding – Basset class trawlers and Bangor class minesweepers. From training in sheds at the dockyard in Mumbai, new establishments and facilities were set up in Karachi, Kochi, Visakhapatnam, Lonavla and in other parts of Mumbai. Among these were specialist training schools for engineering, radar, signals, anti-submarine warfare, amphibious operations, officer training, coastal forces and such like. Many were to prove useful after independence in providing continuity in a time of transition. Between 1941 and 43, new branches – electrical, accounts, education and medical – were created in RIN.

When the war ended on 15 Aug 1945, the strength of RIN was over 2700 officers and 27650 personnel and the Fleet comprised 7 sloops, 4 frigates, 4 corvettes, 14 minesweepers, 16 trawlers, 2 depot ships, 30 auxiliary vessels, 150 landing craft, 200 harbour craft, several motor launches and huge number of shore establishments. Thus, in just 6 years, its strength increased 20 fold in manpower and about 30 times in terms of hardware. It was truly staggering. It needs to be noted that despite the wide range and scale of operations, the RIN losses were negligible – six ships in six years of the war... {Silly remark}

Incidentally, one of the reasons for the huge increase in the Indian component was due to the continuous efforts by Indian freedom fighters to ‘Indianise’ the Armed Forces, especially in the officer cadre. Conscious of the fact that when freedom finally dawns, the Indian Armed Forces would need our own people at the helm, these leaders relentlessly campaigned for a change in the status quo and it was from around 1933 that this became visible. The SS Dufferin started by Indian Mercantile Marine Department, in 1926, to train officers for Merchant Navy also contributed many officers to the Indian Navy. In an essay on this issue, historian Srinath Raghavan brings out how several leaders – Gopal Krishna Gokhale, BG Tilak, Motilal Nehru, Sir Sivaswamy Iyer, Tej Bahadur Sapru, Shanmugham Chetty – unceasingly worked for this objective. Thus, the Indian Freedom struggle also had a collateral mission of increasing the Indian component of our Armed Forces. The growth and ‘Indianisation’ of RIN is directly related to this. Katari in his autobiography “A Sailor Remembers” describes Iyer as redoubtable champion of Indian Shipping.'... {Yet he eulogies MKG above all else when he can show no role in RIN!}

The end of the war though resulted in many deleterious consequences for the RIN. As Satyindra Singh describes “a young over expanded service rapidly disintegrating in the rush to demobilise, living in a supercharged political atmosphere with its own additional feelings of disappointment, apprehension, uncertainty and un-redressed grievances”. This was to result, among other things, in the Naval Uprising of February 1946. While early historians have, understandably, characterised it as a mutiny, revisionist histories have led many to conclude that along with the INA trials and similar revolt by the Royal Air Force personnel at that time, the RIN mutiny was among the many factors that may have hastened the exit of the British. Hence, the Naval Uprising, as it is now described, occupies a historical place as an event that played a role in our freedom struggle.

Irrespective of how one chooses to look at it, there can be no doubt that it was an important moment in the history of RIN and one that would influence people who served in the Navy then and those who were to follow in their wake. While the Indian Navy and the Maritime History Society (MHS) at Mumbai have done much to preserve the memories and commemorate the uprising, we could look forward to more research on that front in the future.

I had read about them in San Jose State Libray that had a series of books describing minute details of WWII. One key takeaway was the huge area of operations for RIN from east of Cape of Good Hope to past Ceylon and the Southern Indian Ocean.
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Also, he doesn't tell why those three Hollywood stars felt the need to congratulate the RIN.
I believe they had come in contact during the War through USO entertainment and other ways.

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The Navy’s ‘Cobras’ turns 60
https://www.indiatoday.in/india-today-i ... 2021-03-20
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A fine vclip of the 1971 naval attack on Karachi.Long feature.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEQusRUlPAs&t=27s
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https://twitter.com/ReviewVayu/status/1 ... 15719?s=20 ---> INS Hansa, the Indian Navy's premier air station, is celebrating its diamond jubilee. The Naval Jet Flight set up at Coimbatore in 1958 with Sea Hawk, Alize & Vampire's, was later commissioned as INS Hansa. Post liberation of Goa, Dabolim airfield was taken over by the Indian Navy.

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India’s first naval aviator Yaduvansh Narayan Singh remained in shadows. It can change now
https://theprint.in/opinion/indias-firs ... ow/732076/
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https://twitter.com/arunp2810/status/14 ... 89669?s=20 ---> @HarrierPres

Here's Indian Navy's Sea Harrier IN-604, in a two-tone livery, taxying at Luqa on completion of first leg of ferry: Yeovilton-Goa, Dec 1983. Note the monstrous 330-gallon ferry tank which permitted only t/o flaps & a 160 knot CVL!

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https://twitter.com/_devildog_rv_/statu ... 07808?s=20 ---> Retro image of an Indian Naval Aviation Westland Sea King Mk 42A, featuring classic Navy Blue + White (correct me if wrong) color scheme.

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https://twitter.com/_devildog_rv_/statu ... 84231?s=20 ---> Sea Harrier in the markings of Indian Naval Air Squadron (INAS) 300 "White Tigers", armed with AIM-9L "Sidewinder" heat seeking Close Combat Missiles (CCMs), during a pre-delivery test flight in UK, December 1971. Courtesy: Anchit Gupta sir and Line Scriber/via IAH.

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https://twitter.com/Leopard212/status/1 ... 24705?s=20 ---> 13 July 1988: High Noon of Cold War.

US Navy F-14 Tomcat and Indian Navy Tu-142M Albatross having a 'meet cute' over Indian Ocean.

In years to come, the romance would blossom, and today Indian Navy flies the US P-8I; replacement to the Soviet Cold War Bear.

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Commodore K.P. Gopal Rao, MVC, VSM, Nov 13th 1926 - Aug 9th 2021

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We missed linking these IN calendars which have paintings of famous IN battles and operations:

IN 2021 calendar
https://www.indiannavy.nic.in/sites/def ... V_2021.pdf

IN 2022 Calendar
https://indiannavy.nic.in/sites/default ... r_2022.pdf
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Also one dated issue of Quarter Deck 2015 celebrating Platinum Jubilee

https://www.navyfoundationmumbaicharter ... qd2015.pdf

Its a bumper issue. Please download are read.
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The definitive account of the Dec 4th Naval raid on Karachi

http://www.indiandefencereview.com/inte ... karachi/0/
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The definitive account of INS Khukri sinking:

http://www.indiandefencereview.com/inte ... he-khukri/

In addition to the ship, 18 Officers and 176 sailors lost their lives.

Aftermath 6 officers and 61 sailors were rescued two days later
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Our own BRM article on the IN attacks on Karachi:

[url:https://web.archive.org/web/20141120020 ... ?showall=1]Operation Trident, Grandslam, and Python[/url]
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Twitter thread on the the story of the IL-38 with Indian Navy's Aviation Arm.

https://twitter.com/singhshwetabh71/sta ... XPh8Q9Wwug ---> The story of turf war and a new plane began with the 1971 war. Even though the seeds were laid approx. a decade earlier (~1965). INS Khukri incident was the catalyst. When our T14 Frigate was sunk by the PN sub. Navy naturally wanted to procure MRASW aircrafts.

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https://twitter.com/lca_tejas_/status/1 ... XPh8Q9Wwug ---> Rarest of the rare picture. Sea Harriers of the Indian Navy on the deck of INS Vikrant during exercises in the Arabian Sea. From "History of Aviation in India" by the late Pushpindar Singh Sir.

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