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| India to hold biggest ever naval exercise in Bay of Bengal |
| 2007-07-13 |
| New Delhi, July. 13 (PTI): Twenty warships from five countries, including three aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines and fighters, will assemble in the Bay of Bengal in September for a major naval exercise to be hosted by India. The other countries taking part in the wargame are the US, Japan, Australia and Singapore and the warships that will be fielded for it include two American nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, USS Nimitz and Kitty Hawk, defence ministry officials here said today. Besides the carriers with their full complement of 80 to 100 aircraft, the exercise codenamed Malabar-07 will feature missile destroyers, stealth frigates, nuclear and conventional submarines and tankers. The five-day manoeuvres will also see shore-based Jaguar deep penetration strike aircraft of the Indian Air Force and the Indian Navy's Sea Harrier jets and Sea King helicopters from the INS Viraat in action. Last month's joint manoeuvres by Indian, US and Japanese warships off the Japanese coast in the Pacific had evoked a strong reaction from China. Beijing issued a demarche to the three nations, demanding to know the reason for them undertaking such a wargame close to Chinese territory. Australia's Defence Minister Brendan Nelson allayed Beijing's fears, saying there was no quadrilateral security alliance comprising Australia, the US, India and Japan in the offing. |
| Posted by:John Frum |
| #3 ION, KOMMERSANT/WAFF.COM > SECRETS OF THE RUSSIAN AIRCRAFT CARRIER. Gist - work on poten nuclear medium CV(s) could, in right circumstances, begin prior to Year 2015. And, iff I read btwn the article's lines correctly, Russia wants NUMBERS + TECH SUFFICIENCIES, NOT to compete 1:1 = seek superiority agz the dimensions-scale of USN carriers. RUSSIA wants to be the de facto #2. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-07-13 23:43 |
| #2 Let's correct some errors in this article. The Hindu obviously let a junior writer take this story, and failed to edit correctly. - The Kitty Hawk is not a nuclear powered carrier. That's one good reason to sell it to the Japanese. - The Indian carrier is the Vikrant. It's a former British carrier sold to India in the late 1950's. - Why would the Australians say anything about a military exercise in which they didn't take part? The exercise was a regularly-scheduled one between the US and Japan, with the Indians invited to "observe". The exercise area, IIRC, was about halfway between Japan and Okinawa, in international waters. China had no grounds for complaint other than other people were practicing how to curtail China's desired expansionism. The Chinese also grumbled about a US/Philippines joint exercise a couple of weeks ago off the EASTERN coast of Luzon. Note to the Hindu: Just because they are literate in English doesn't mean these young studs can actually WRITE, or think for themselves. It's also beginning to look like they can't even use the Internet successfully. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2007-07-13 23:13 |
| #1 That's an impressive cast of characters the Indians have assembled. |
| Posted by: Ho Chi Spomosh2247 2007-07-13 23:02 |