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The government recently decided to build a new Rs 13,000-crore greenfield civil-military airport as part of the Great Nicobar project instead of expanding the existing naval airfield at INS Baaz.

About INS Baaz

• It is an Indian naval air station located near Campbell Bay, on Great Nicobar Island in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. 
• It was commissioned on July 31, 2012. It is the first air station in the Nicobar Islands.
• It is the southernmost air station of the Indian Armed Forces.   
• It is under the joint-services Andaman and Nicobar Command (ANC) of the Indian Armed Forces. 
• It significantly enhances India’s capacity for intelligence gathering, surveillance, and reconnaissance across vast areas of the Indian Ocean. 
• It overlooks the Strait of Malacca as well as the Six Degree Channel between Great Nicobar and the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
• It is used as a base for the Indian Navy’s Dornier Do 228 reconnaissance aircraft. 
• It can also operate the Indian Air Force’s C-130J Super Hercules transport aircraft. 
• Its runway measures 3,500 feet (1,100 m) and will be progressively lengthened to enable all heavy aircraft to operate from the base.

News: IT

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