INS Kattabomman, VLF transmitting station of Indian Navy
Type
Naval station
Site information
Controlled by
Indian Navy
Site history
Built
1990 (1990)
In use
1990–present
Garrison information
Occupants
Southern Naval Command
INS Kattabomman is the designation of the VLF-transmission facility of the Indian Navy situated at Vijayanarayanam near Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu.[1] 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 ELF transmission facility in 2014.[2][3]
^"INS Kattabomman". Indian Navy. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
^"Navy gets new facility to communicate with nuclear submarines prowling underwater". The Times of India. 31 July 2014.
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