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'''INS Kardip''' is a [[forward operating base]] of the [[Indian Navy]] under the joint-services [[Andaman and Nicobar Command]] located on [[Kamorta Island]] in the [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]].<ref name=gs-bases>{{cite web|url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/india/ports.htm|title=Indian Naval Bases|publisher=Global Security|access-date=2012-01-09}}</ref> It was commissioned in 1973.<ref name=in-transition>{{cite book|url=http://indiannavy.nic.in/t2t2e/Trans2Trimph/chapters/20%20repair%20refeit%20facility.htm|chapter=Chapter 20 - Maintenance, Repair And Refit Facilities|title=Transition to Triumph|author=Vice Admiral [[Gulab Mohanlal Hiranandani]]|publisher=Indian Navy|access-date=2012-01-09}}</ref>

==History==
After the 1962 [[Sino-Indian War]], the Navy was tasked with the defence of the [[Andaman & Nicobar Islands]]. [[INS Jarawa]] was commissioned on [[Port Blair]] in 1964 as the main naval base in the islands.

By the early 1970s, it was evident that most unauthorized intrusions into the territorial waters of the islands by vessels of other nations were occurring in the southern [[Nicobar Islands]]. Given the distance of these islands from Port Blair, the navy decided to establish a forward operating base there to station and support large patrol craft. ''INS Kardip'' was hence commissioned in 1973 on Kamorta island.<ref name=in-transition/> Ship maintenance facilities were established at INS Kardip soon thereafter.

==See also==
; Indian navy
* [[List of Indian Navy bases]]
* [[List of active Indian Navy ships]]

; Integrated commands and units
* [[Armed Forces Special Operations Division]]
* [[Defence Cyber Agency]]
* [[Integrated Defence Staff]]
* [[Integrated Space Cell]]
* [[Nuclear Command Authority (India)|Indian Nuclear Command Authority]]
* [[Indian Armed Forces]]
* [[Special Forces of India]]

; Other lists
* [[Strategic Forces Command]]
* [[List of Indian Air Force stations]]
* [[List of Indian Navy bases]]
* [[List of countries with overseas military bases#India|India's overseas military bases]]

==References==
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{{Indian Navy}}

[[Category:Indian Navy bases|Kardip]]

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