Continuing its deployment within the western Pacific Ocean, together with the South China Sea, the Indian Navy on Monday carried out maritime partnership workouts with the Philippine Navy. Two Indian warships, INS Rannvijay, Guided Missile Destroyer, D55 and INS Kora, Guided Missile Corvette, P61, on deployment within the Western Pacific, participated within the train together with Philippine Navy’s BRP Antonio Luna, frigate, FF 151 within the West Philippine Sea. .
“The joint developments undertaken during the exercise included a number of operational maneuvers and the participating ships of both the navies were satisfied with the consolidation of the interactivity achieved through this operational interaction at sea,” the Navy mentioned in a press release.
Indian naval ships are “currently deployed in the Western Pacific with the aim of strengthening maritime security cooperation with partner countries”, including that the talks with the Philippine warship are “for the Indian Navy its bilateral relations with the Philippines”. There was a wealthy alternative to strengthen relations” Navy”.
It mentioned, “In compliance with the extant pandemic guidelines, the exercise was carried out in a contactless manner and all necessary health and safety protocols were strictly followed.”
The Navy famous that India and the Philippines “share a very strong defense and security partnership built over many years and spanning all domains” and their navies “to further strengthen bilateral cooperation in the maritime domain towards the collective objective of ensuring stable Committed to a “peaceable and affluent Indo-Pacific”.
This is in a collection of workouts that India is conducting with littoral nations sharing its maritime borders with China as a part of its deployment. Two Indian warships arrived in Guam on Sunday to participate within the multilateral Malabar naval train beginning later this week by which 4 of the Quad member states, India, the US, Japan and Australia.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
