[ProudVet77]

Used to love these multi-lingual excercises. We did an ops with the Spanish Navy one time, and I was on the midwatch side of port and starboard watch rotation in CIC. The excercise commander didn't schedule stuff for night so the midwatch was really dead. Just cruising around at 15 knots in formation, and no div tacts. So one of the Spanish destroyers must have gotten bored, so they keep calling us every 5 minutes for a radio check. "Iron Warrior this is xxxx, radio check, over". So the lead PO would respond back, "xxxx this is Iron Warrior hear you 5x5 over" and this went on over and over.
Finally Crazy Al, the lead PO had enough. Next time xxxx called, he responded "xxxx This is Iron Warrior, hear you 5x5 with loud accent over"
End of radio checks for the night :)

[sukhoi-30mki]

The IN actually uses English as it's primary operational language.