SUBMARINE DAY

Dec. 10, 2020

The Indian Navy celebrated Submarine Day on December 8.

About:

  • It was on December 8 that the Indian Naval Ensign was unfurled on INS Kalvari, the first submarine to be inducted in the Indian Navy, at Riga in Latvia, the erstwhile USSR, in 1967.

  • INS Kalvari was a diesel-electric submarine of the Foxtrot Class from the erstwhile USSR.

  • Kalvari is the Malayalam name for Tiger Shark, a predator in the Indian Ocean. The Kalvari was decommissioned in 1996 after 29 years of service.

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