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title: "Interesting Facts About Indian Navy You Need to Know"  
description: "The Indian Navy could easily be the coolest and classiest of armed forces in the world. Here's Interesting Facts About Indian Navy You Need to Know"  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-12-02  
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category: "indian navy"  
tags: ["Navy", "Indian Navy", "interesting facts", "Navy facts", "Indian Navy facts"]  
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# Interesting Facts About Indian Navy You Need to Know

![Interesting Facts About Indian Navy You Need to Know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/4ac27eb5-1c80-4903-8c4e-13c3b39c78a1/images/29e86048-7af3-4141-b417-f363e7fb7cb5.jpeg) ![Interesting Facts About Indian Navy You Need to Know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/4ac27eb5-1c80-4903-8c4e-13c3b39c78a1/images/fb64108f-423a-4193-87a4-e4c871be0673.jpeg) Originally called the Royal Indian Navy, our supreme naval branch of the armed forces of India was founded in 1612 by the East India Company ![Interesting Facts About Indian Navy You Need to Know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/4ac27eb5-1c80-4903-8c4e-13c3b39c78a1/images/b7947f07-bb22-4f2a-94df-7f04888d23cb.jpeg) This was renamed the Indian Navy on 26th January, 1950 after independence. ![Interesting Facts About Indian Navy You Need to Know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/4ac27eb5-1c80-4903-8c4e-13c3b39c78a1/images/585865ad-d901-4f12-9e4d-d697cedf767b.jpeg) Navy day , is the day the Indian Navy successfully executed Operation Trident, an attack on Pakistani Naval Headquarters in Karachi. ![Interesting Facts About Indian Navy You Need to Know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/4ac27eb5-1c80-4903-8c4e-13c3b39c78a1/images/db7471ac-567e-4f58-b538-474dd395d0b1.jpeg) The Indian Navy’s first independent mission was against the Portuguese Navy during the liberation of Goa in 1961. ![Interesting Facts About Indian Navy You Need to Know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/4ac27eb5-1c80-4903-8c4e-13c3b39c78a1/images/38f1ea76-2373-48af-90df-cddae9313fff.jpeg) India’s naval forces played a key role in the Second World War . ![Interesting Facts About Indian Navy You Need to Know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/4ac27eb5-1c80-4903-8c4e-13c3b39c78a1/images/4e329b63-63c8-4ace-9ce8-c2c383675b82.jpeg) The Indian Navy fought one of the largest naval conflicts since the Second World War. Using anti-ship cruise missiles in during Indo-Pak war 1971 ![Interesting Facts About Indian Navy You Need to Know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/4ac27eb5-1c80-4903-8c4e-13c3b39c78a1/images/4ff5c611-c155-40af-b6a0-c2549430b9ff.jpeg) The missile BrahMos , is the fastest cruise missile in the world with a speed of Mach 2.8 – 3.0. ![Interesting Facts About Indian Navy You Need to Know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/4ac27eb5-1c80-4903-8c4e-13c3b39c78a1/images/3e4c41e0-b981-4849-96f8-e6ecf87da4c6.jpeg) The Indian Navy is among the top ten naval forces of the world. The Ezhimala Naval Academy in Kerala is the largest naval academy in Asia.

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