NEW DELHI, March 9:
The Indian Navy, India’s partners in the QUAD grouping USA, Japan and Australia, and its strategic allies France and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will conduct complex interoperability exercises in April. They involve carrier strike groups, anti-submarine warfare aircraft and attack submarines– a move aimed at projecting their dominance from the Persian Gulf to the Malacca Straits.
The UAE will be joining India and France for the first time in a trilateral naval exercise in the strategically important Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman in late April under the Varuna banner. This is scheduled between April 25 and 27.
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