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INAS 334

military unit

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ124854094 ↗
Source-derived summary

The INAS 334 is a helicopter squadron of the Indian Navy operating Sikorsky MH-60R SeaHawk helicopters since 6 March 2024. The squadron is based at INS Garuda in Kochi and is expected to have fleet deployments onboard the Aircraft Carrier INS Vikrant.

The primary roles of the squadron includes anti-submarine warfare (ASW), anti-surface warfare (ASuW), search and rescue (SAR), medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) and vertical replenishment (VERTREP).

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“INAS 334” enters the record as military unit. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what INAS, military and unit can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around INAS, military and unit.
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“INAS 334” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, INAS, military and unit provides the most credible route into that argument.

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This entry incorporates text from “INAS 334” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.