Posted on 08/10/2005 8:37:19 PM PDT by Srirangan
NEW DELHI Aug. 10 - The Indian Navy will carry out bilateral exercises with the US, French and Russian navies during September- November this year, Indian Defense Minister Pranab Mukherjee said in the Parliament Wednesday.
Nuclear powered submarines of the US and French navies and the aircraft carrier of the Russian navy are likely to be part of their forces in these exercises, Mukherjee said.
(Excerpt) Read more at india-defence.com ...
China must be feeling cozy right about now... No, wait... Maybe not.
France has a navy?
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"France has a navy?"
No, they will supply the chefs for the other country's ships.
Perfect match............history's....roots come home?
Look at the 'record'!
Let the 'games' begin!
Hmm India has great relations with Russia and decent enough with France too.
Who are they going to call for tech support?
But,........India 'has' our 'puters'.......?
EXACTLY!
Thanks for the info. I was, truly, just curious because you just don't hear much about any French military. I too continue to boycott all things French, and sneer at those who don't.
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France also makes AIP Subs. Their Navy and Air Force are pretty good.
So what this means is that the US and Russian navies are having a joint navel exercise!!! Gee, none of the haters are around? Go figure. Lets hear more China conspiracy theories.
Which is absolute nonsense. Our only "crime" is our opposition to the invasion of Iraq. The least you could do now is admit that there were some valid reasons to do this.
In the meanwhile, although you probably hate this idea, we are simply your most precious ally in the fight against terrorism. Please take the time to read this article entirely for example, if you haven't done so yet:
Help From France Key In Covert Operations
I'm seriously disappointed at the easiness with whom so many of you guys have been happily brainwashed by the francophobic deliria of the fair and balanced like O'Reilly and friends.
The group of vessels from Russia's Pacific Fleet, including a submarine hunter, destroyer and major landing craft, departed Vladivostok Monday.
Russia said earlier this week it would also send six heavy bombers, including two Tu-95 strategic bombers and four Tu-22M long-range bombers, to take part in the drills on the Shandong peninsula.
The Aug. 18-25 maneuvers highlight budding military ties between Moscow and Beijing, whose relations have warmed after decades of Cold War-era rivalry.
Putin: Military drill evidence of closer ties - Russian President Vladimir Putin has hailed the upcoming Sino-Russian military exercise as evidence of the progress made in bilateral military co-operation.
Russian President Vladimir Putin gets into a locomotive while he tours a railroad test centre in the town of Shcherbinka outside Moscow August 4, 2005. Putin's visit comes ahead of Railroad Workers' Day, celebrated in Russia on the first Sunday in August.
Speaking in Moscow on Tuesday, the Russian president said his country sees China as a long-standing friend with which it shares a huge number of mutual interests.
He made the remarks at a meeting with newly appointed Russian Ambassador to China, Sergei Razov, according to reports by the ITAR-Tass news agency.
Putin's remarks coincide with the moving of Russian troops towards the site of the first Chinese-Russian military exercise.
The defence ministries of the two countries announced on August 2 that joint military drills, dubbed "Peace Mission 2005," will take place around Russia's Vladivostock and East China's Shandong Peninsula from August 18-25.
Ships of Russia's Pacific Fleet started sailing for East China's Shandong Province on Sunday, Colonel General Vladimir Moltensky, first deputy commander of the Russian army, said on Tuesday.
The fleet includes a large anti-submarine vessel, the Marshal Shaposhnikov, a large landing ship and a destroyer. A company of Marine Corps and some students from the Makarov Pacific Ocean Higher Naval School have also joined the contingent.
Moltensky told reporters in the Siberian city of Vladivostok that a company of Psokov's 76th Airborne Division had also moved to the area for the exercise.
Generals and officers of the Russian Defence Ministry and the operational group of the air force, the navy and the army flew to China on Tuesday, Moltensky was quoted by Xinhua as saying.
"We are keeping constant contact with the office of the Russian military attache in Beijing. We are solving all issues related to border and customs services," said Moltensky, who is heading the ministry's operational group during the exercise.
Xinhua also quoted President Putin as saying the manoeuvres will probably be "the largest" in the history of bilateral relations.
President Putin said the Russian army will use "the most advanced weapons" during the exercise.
Meanwhile, when meeting the newly appointed Ambassador to China Sergei Razov, Putin said: "The signing of a major treaty in 2001 and settling of border issues laid a solid foundation for long-term historic prospects, and that's not an overstatement."
'Challenge to U.S. interests' - Rivals through the decades of the Cold War, Moscow and Beijing, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, have moved closer to each other, in recent years frequently finding common cause against what they see as U.S. "hegemony."
Their thinly-veiled criticism of the U.S. was reiterated most recently in a joint statement issued after presidents Hu Jintao and Vladimir Putin met on July 1. They stressed their opposition to attempts by any country to "monopolize and dominate international affairs" or to "divide nations between leaders and those being led" - apparently a reference to American support for democratization moves in former Soviet states.
Since Russia and China signed a Good Neighborliness, Friendship and Co-operation Treaty in 2001, aimed at "expanding and deepening the Sino-Russian strategic cooperation partnership," they have settled decades-long disputes over their 2,260-mile common border.
They have deepened cooperation in Central Asia through the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a security grouping which last month called on U.S. forces supporting anti-terror operations in Afghanistan to set a timetable to leave Central Asia.
The new century also brought a rapid increase in Russian arms sales to China, with billions of dollars worth of purchases including fighter aircraft, submarines and destroyers. Moscow said last January it may sell China advanced strategic weapons, including Tu-22M3 bombers, known in the West as "Backfires."
A recent Pentagon report said China's military build-up could, in time, pose a "credible threat" to America and its allies in the region.
In recent testimony before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, American Foreign Policy Council president Herman Pirchner, Jr. said the developing Sino-Russian partnership "has emerged as an unmistakable challenge to American interests in Eurasia and the Asia-Pacific."
Tell it to Taiwan.
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