President Draupadi Murmu traveled on the Indian Navy submarine INS Vaghsheer, has also flown in fighter aircraft, President Draupadi Murmu traveled on the Indian Navy submarine INS Vaghsheer

Karwar. President Draupadi Murmu on Sunday took a sea voyage aboard the Indian Navy submarine INS Waghshir. The President is the supreme commander of all the armies. The INS Waghshir submarine in which the President traveled is of the Kalvari class. The President boarded an Indian Navy submarine based in Karwar, Karnataka. He was also accompanied by Indian Navy Chief Admiral Dinesh Tripathi.

President Droupadi Murmu embarked the Indian Navy’s indigenous Kalvari class submarine INS Vaghsheer at Karwar Naval Base, Karnataka. The President is undertaking a sortie on the Western Seaboard. Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Dinesh K. Tripathi is accompanying the Supreme… pic.twitter.com/8LWzOkc4Ut

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Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, who was the President before President Draupadi Murmu, had also traveled in a Navy submarine. In this way, Draupadi Murmu is the second President of India to travel in a naval submarine. INS Waghshir has been built for the Indian Navy under Project-75. INS Waghshir is a Kalvari class diesel-electric submarine. INS Waghshir, built under Make in India, has the capability to monitor the enemy from under the sea, gather intelligence and destroy their ships and submarines.

President Draupadi Murmu has also flown in fighter planes of the Indian Air Force before. She has also gone to Siachen Base Camp. It also boosts the morale of the country’s defense forces by seeing their supreme commander boarding fighter planes and submarines and visiting Siachen. The President’s visit in a naval submarine is also special because India now maintains its dominance far and wide in the Indian Ocean. The Indian Navy is so powerful that the enemy fears it in the Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. During Operation Sindoor, Pakistani Navy ships and submarines did not even come out of the ports due to the fear of the Indian Navy.