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INS Parundu is an Indian naval air station located near Uchipuli in the Ramanathapuram of the state of Tamil Nadu. It operates under the Eastern Naval Command of the Indian Navy. The air station will be opened up for civilian flights under Phase 2 of the Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) of the Government of India also known as UDAN and the Airports Authority of India (AAI) has started preparatory work at the airstrip. It is sandwiched between Rameswaram National Highway Road and Railway track which leads towards Rameswaram.




History


The airfield in Ramanathapuram was previously the abandoned Ramnad Civil Aerodrome. Naval aviation first utilised the facilities in 1982, to monitor the Palk Strait in the wake of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
The facilities were fully transferred to the Navy on 9 June 1985, and the naval air station was initially commissioned INS Rajali II.
On 26 March 2009, the base was renamed and commissioned as INS Parundu, for the Tamil word for an eagle. The facilities have since been upgraded to operate larger aircraft. It is primarily used by the navy as a reconnaissance station to monitor the South East Bay of Bengal, the northern Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait.
On 25 August 2017, an Integrated Automatic Aviation Meteorological System (IAAMS) was added.




Units


The primary units based at INS Parundu are Indian Naval Air Squadrons (INAS) that operate HAL Chetak helicopters and Islander reconnaissance aircraft.
Besides upgrading the runway, the Navy has installed dedicated facilities to operate UAVs from the air station. INAS 344, operating IAI Heron and IAI Searcher Mk II UAVs is based at INS Parundu.




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
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
India's overseas military bases




References

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• Bandar Udara Internasional Kempegowda
• Bandar Udara Internasional Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
• Bandar Udara Internasional Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj
• Bandar Udara Internasional Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi
• Bandar Udara Varanasi
• Bandar Udara Madurai
• Bandar Udara Internasional Veer Savarkar
• Bandar Udara Internasional Coimbatore
• Bandar Udara Internasional Raja Sansi
• Bandar Udara Juhu
• INS Parundu
• List of Indian Navy bases
• INS Hansa
• Uchipuli
• List of airports in Punjab, India
• Surat Airport
• List of airports in Kerala
• Chettinad Airport
• Hosur Aerodrome
• Veer Savarkar International Airport