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A new round of naval exercise

SINGAPORE: Four ships of the Indian Navy, inclusive of two destroyers, arrived in Singapore over the weekend for an annual maritime exercise with the City-State. The exercise will be followed by India’s participation in China’s first international fleet review at Qingdao in April, it has been officially stated.

It is further understood that the Indian Navy might later hold an exercise, in the “Malabar series”, with the US off the Japanese coast.

It is not authoritatively confirmed, at this stage, whether Japan would join any such US-India exercise. However, a top Japanese official told The Hindu that India’s naval vessels would “pay a goodwill visit to Japan” towards the end of April.

In 2007, the Indian Navy conducted professional exercises with both the US and Japan off the Japanese coast. During a long period of “deployment” in East Asia on that occasion, India held unrelated maritime exercises with Russia and China exclusively.

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