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Indian Navy to set up base for UAVs in Andamans

IRNA

New Delhi, Nov 10, IRNA -- The Indian Navy is planning to set up a 
base for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the Andaman Islands in 
India`s Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands in Bay of 
Bengal to increase its surveillance capacity in the region. 
According to the Asian Age, a New Delhi-based English daily, 
Indian Navy, already has a UAV base at Kochi in the Southern Indian 
State of Kerala, at the headquarters of the Southern Naval Command on 
the western coast. 
The new base at Andamans will help Indian Navy to increase its 
surveillance ability in a region which is of enormous strategic 
significance to this country. 
Indian defense forces have been extensively using Israeli-built 
UAVs, which have been pressed into service by the Army along the Line 
of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir as an effective tool for 
surveillance purposes. 
The move will counter the Chinese maritime reconnaissance and 
electronic station on Coco Island in the Bay of Bengal, through which 
it can monitor Indian naval and missile launch facilities in the 
Andaman and Nicobar Islands. 
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