Английская Википедия:INAS 300
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The INAS 300 is the longest serving combat unit of the Indian Navy,[1] based at INS Hansa.[2][3]
History
The White Tigers were commissioned on 7 July 1959[1] at RNAS Brawdy, United Kingdom with the Indian High Commissioner to UK, Vijay Laxmi Pandit, in attendance. The first Squadron Commander was Lt Cdr B D Law. The squadron was initially equipped with the Hawker Sea Hawk aircraft. On 18 May 1961, Lt Cdr R. H. Tahiliani carried out the first deck landing on Шаблон:INS on Sea Hawk IN 156. The squadron left RNAS Brawdy on 31 July 1961 with eleven Hawker Sea Hawks and embarked Шаблон:INS off the Isle of Wight. During the course of the next ten years the Indian Navy inducted fifty-four Sea Hawks in a phased manner, the last aircraft being delivered in December 1971.[4] The Sea Hawks were retired from the Indian Navy in a phased manner in the late-70s and early-80s.[1] The Sea Harriers were replaced by MiG-29KUBs on 11 May 2016 in a ceremony held at INS Hansa. They now act as an operational conversion unit for the INAS 303, the black panthers.[5]
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A Sea Harrier flanked by a pair of MiG-29Ks
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Plaque commemorating the retirement of the Sea Harrier
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50 years of INAS 300 postal stamp (2010)
References
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