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2007-07-13 India-Pakistan

India to hold biggest ever naval exercise in Bay of Bengal

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Posted by John Frum 2007-07-13 17:57|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 That's an impressive cast of characters the Indians have assembled.

Posted by Ho Chi Spomosh2247 2007-07-13 23:02|| 2007-07-13 23:02|| Front Page Top

#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">Old Patriot 2007-07-13 23:13|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-07-13 23:13|| Front Page Top

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Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-07-13 23:43|| 2007-07-13 23:43|| Front Page Top

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