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INS Kattabomman is the designation of the VLF-transmission facility of the
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situated at Vijayanarayanam near
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in
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. The facility spread over 3,000 acres has 13 masts, which are arranged in two rings around the central mast. The centre mast has a height of 301 metres, the masts on the inner ring measure 276.4 metres, that on the outer ring measure 227.4 metres. Two further masts of the station carrying an umbrella antenna, the INS Kattabomman is 471 metres tall and the tallest structure in India. They are also the tallest military structure in the world. The facility opened an
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transmission facility in 2014.


History

Development and construction of INS Kattabomman started in 1984 as Project Skylark and costed . It was commissioned into service by Indian President
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on 20 October 1990. It is named after king Veera Pandya Kattabomman, who died during the
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. After operationalising the base, India became the seventh country in the world to have developed the
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communication capability.


Further development


VLF upgrades

On 31 July 2014, a new
Very low frequency Very low frequency or VLF is the ITU designation for radio frequencies (RF) in the range of 3–30  kHz, corresponding to wavelengths from 100 to 10 km, respectively. The band is also known as the myriameter band or myriameter wave a ...
facility was inaugurated at INS Kattabomman. The upgrade included digitising the control interface.


Extremely low frequency facility

An
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communication facility is also present near the VLF facility, construction of which commenced in March 2012. The facility is used by the Nuclear Command Authority to communicate with the Arihant-class of submarines. India is the second country after
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to actively operate an
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facility; the
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had discontinued using it in 2004. Another such facility is proposed in Damagundam Reserve Forest (approximately at 17°16'N 77°56'E ).


See also

; Indian navy *
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*
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; Integrated commands and units *
Armed Forces Special Operations Division The Armed Forces Special Operations Division (AFSOD) is a tri-service command of the Indian Armed Forces. The division is tasked to carry out special operations. The AFSOD draws personnel from all three special warfare branches of the Armed For ...
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Defence Cyber Agency The Defence Cyber Agency (DCyA) is a tri-service command of the Indian Armed Forces. Headquartered in New Delhi, the agency is tasked with handling cyber security threats. The DCyA draws personnel from all three branches of the Armed Forces. The h ...
*
Integrated Defence Staff The Integrated Defence Staff (IDS) is an organisation responsible for fostering coordination and enabling prioritisation across the different branches of the Indian Armed Forces. It is composed of representatives from the Indian Army, Indian Navy, ...
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Integrated Space Cell The Integrated Space Cell was the nodal agency within the Government of India which oversees the security of its space based military and civilian hardware systems. It was to be jointly operated by all the three services of the Indian Armed Forces ...
* Indian Nuclear Command Authority *
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* Special Forces of India ; Other topics *
Strategic Forces Command The Strategic Forces Command (SFC), sometimes called Strategic Nuclear Command, forms part of India's Nuclear Command Authority (NCA). It is responsible for the management and administration of the country's tactical and strategic nuclear weap ...
*
List of Indian Air Force stations The Indian Air Force currently operates seven Air Commands. Each command is headed by an Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the rank of Air Marshal. The Air Force currently has over 60 air stations all over India. These are grouped into sev ...
*
List of Indian Navy bases The Indian Navy currently operates three commands — Western Naval Command located at Mumbai, Southern Naval Command located at Kochi and Eastern Naval Command located at Visakhapatnam. The Andaman and Nicobar Command, a unified Indian Navy, A ...
* India's overseas military bases *
Veerapandiya Kattabomman Veerapandiya Kattabomman was an 18th-century Tamil Palayakarrar and king of Panchalankurichi in Tamil Nadu, India. He refused to accept the sovereignty of the British East India Company and waged a war against them. He was captured by the Briti ...


References

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