Hon’ble
President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind has released a commemorative postage
stamp on 50 Years of Submarine Arm of Indian Navy on 7th December 2017 at Visakhapatnam.
The
submarine arm of the Indian Navy is in its 50th year of existence. From a
small force of Foxtrot class, it leapfrogged into high tech boats
in just 25 years of its coming into being. By then it had also made forays
into operating a nuclear submarine and internalised its nuances and discipline,
which is quite a different way of life from that on a conventional boat. In
this journey, it has also graduated to deploying submarine-launched cruise missiles
and smart wire-guided torpedoes. It has also graduated to deploying
submarine-launched cruise missiles and smart wire-guided torpedoes.
It
has come a long way in maintenance procedures and protocols and the
naval dockyards are capable of handling current refits and gaining valuable
insights in medium and half-life refits. The indigenous construction of
the Scorpene is yet another milestone achieved. The greatest stride,
even though long in coming, has been the indigenous construction of the
SSBN Arihant. The conventional boats of the Shishumar and Sindhughosh class
with their stand-off range weapons and missile capability had come to acquire
the nom de guerreof ‘the sword arm’ of the IN. The Arihant with its ICBM
capability and an assured deterrence of second strike could really be called
the ‘shield’ of the nation.
Hon’ble Minister of Communications (independent charge) and Minister of State for Railways Shri Manoj Sinha, Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu Andhra Pradesh State and Hon’ble Governor ESL
Narasimhan of Andra Pradesh State were present.
The denomination of stamp is R. 5/-.
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Source-http://www.indiandefencereview.com
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