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Posted on 07/31/2007 1:07:09 PM PDT by milestogo
NEW DELHI, JULY 31 (PTI) The biggest ever armada of warships including Indian vessels and nuclear submarines from the US and Australia will be in action off the Bay of Bengal in early September for some complex multi-nation sea war games.
The navies of India, the US, Australia, Japan and Singapore will take part in the exercise which will witness nuclear powered aircraft carriers, advanced air early warning planes and fighters display their prowess. This will be biggest assembly of fighting sea machines in the area, since the 1971 Indo-Pak conflict.
While US, Japan and India have held similar exercises off the Japanese coast last winter, this is the first time that the Australian Navy would be taking part in such manouveres.
Aware that the assembly of such a large flotilla could raise eyebrows in the immediate neighbourhood, the war game planners have said the holding of exercise in no manner could be taken as setting up of a" front against anybody".
" There is no movement of setting up of a Quadrilateral force or front against anybody" said Rear Admiral Pradeep Chauhan, Assistant Chief of the Naval staff.
Briefing newsmen on the scope and nature of the exercises, Chauhan made it clear that Indian policy was not not to join any " front or force" making it clear that Indian Navy was only" India Centric".
Similar exercises in the Sea of Japan had earlier evoked sharp reaction from the Chinese media.
The naval exercises would be held midway between the country's east coast and its island territories in the Andaman Islands from September 4 to 9, Chauhan said.
For the exercises, the American Nuclear powered carrier USS Nimitz, whose docking off the Chennai coast sparked off protests in the country, will be back off Indian waters leading the 13-strong US warship flotilla.
Besides Nimitz, Americans are fielding the other carrier USS Kitty Hawk, Missile cruisers Princeton and Higgins, Guided Missile destroyers Chaffe, Pickney, Curtis Wilbur, Mustin and John Paul Jones and tankers Ericcson and Rainer.
Also on view would be the LA class Nuclear powered Submarine USS Chicago. Indian navy would be fielding its lone carrier INS Viraat, Russian acquired Kashin class missile destroyers INS Ranvijay and INS Ranjit, indigenous Brahmaputra class frigates and guided missile corvette INS Kurmak and Kuthar and tanker Aditya.
Taking part for the time, Australian Navy will bring its US acquired Oliver Hazard Peery class frigate HMS Adelaide, Singapore its french La Fayatte class stealth frigate Formidable and Japanese their two destroyers -- Oonami and Udachi.
The American carriers will be carrying their full complement of F-18/A Hornet and F-14 and F-15 fighters, anti submarine helicopters and Airborne Early warning planes.
Indian naval air power would be led by Sea Harriers, Sea King helicopters and Kamov anti-submarine and Airborne Early Warning choppers. Four shore-based Jaguar deep penetration maritime strike fighters will also be in action.
Hey Chi-coms, CAN YA HEAR ME NOW?
If Russia and Vietnam join the coalition, China will almost be completely surrounded.
“Aware that the assembly of such a large flotilla could raise eyebrows in the immediate neighbourhood, the war game planners have said the holding of exercise in no manner could be taken as setting up of a ‘front against anybody.’”
Presumably the message was translated into Chinese and Farsi...
I believe the F-14s are all retired.
f-14’s are retired from the fleet.......f-15 is an air force plane....would be nice to have someone who knows what they are talking about write an article
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Probably this huge exercise is as much for Russia to see as for the ChiComs, N. Koreans, and the Iranians.
PICTURES PLEASE!
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Russia won't. They have unequivocally chosen sides. And it's not the side of the US.
Bigger than RIMPAC? Or do they mean biggest in the Bay of Bengal?
Well let’s see how Mother Russia reacts to the future Chinese version of Lebensraum. There’s a demographic disaster overtaking Russia, China has a growing population of 1.3 billion people, and there’s an awful lot of virgin territory in Siberia.
And personally one of those who sees that China could eventually take over much, if not all, of Russia--this seems to be the general Russian view; don't blame the messenger.
“....would be nice to have someone who knows what they are talking about write an article”
Journalists are imbeciles. Seriously, they sound worse than a 10-year old FOS know-it-all talking smack about that of which they know nothing.
I think the Russian attitude may take a dramatic reversal, a 180, if the Chinese start gobbling up chunks of Russia. And why wouldn’t the Chinese take notice of a population implosion to the north of its borders, with boundless miles of uninhabited wilderness, while China itself undergoes a rapid capitalist transformation of it’s economy, coupled with a burgeoning population bubble brimming over with 1.3 billion people?
How would we feel if millions of Mexicans began illegally crossing the RioGrande, and other points of entry to Estados Unitos, to occupy our southwest? Come to think of it, that’s old news.
Yes...a very poorly written and researched (if at all) article.
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