CNS visits Campbell Bay

Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Karambir Singh visited INS Baaz, the Naval Air Station at Campbell Bay, Great Nicobar Island on 13 November 2020, the visit on Diwali day was “also to express solidarity with personnel” stationed at this southernmost tip of the A&N Island chain, just north of Sumatra in Indonesia. The geo-strategically located Air Station is critical to surveillance of International Sea Lanes passing through the IOR, supporting operations of various military aircraft, which enable observation of the Southern Bay of Bengal, South Andaman Sea, Malacca Straits and the Southern Indian Ocean.