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Joint Indian, U.S. naval exercise in July
Monday, 30 June 2003, 00:00 Hrs
CHENNAI: India and the United States will hold joint naval exercises off the coast of Chennai in July in which the coast guard and air force will also participate.
The exercise, codenamed Summerex to begin July 4, coinciding with America's Independence Day, and would include participation of the latest helicopters, aircraft, submarines and ships of the navy, coast guard and air force.
India's largest naval air station, INS Rajali, is anchored off the east coast at Arakkonam, nearly 70 km south of Chennai.
"Units of the western and eastern command will exercise together here," Vice-Admiral Raman Puri, commander in chief of the eastern naval forces, said.
Puri said India's indigenously built advanced light helicopter (ALH) from Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. was being tested for naval operations at Kochi on the Kerala coast. The earliest version of the ALH will be inducted into the navy's eastern command in a few months, Puri said.
He said the navy's Arakkonam facility had been in operation since 1992 and reconnaissance planes had been stationed there for many years. The station is being used as a long-range maritime patrolling station.
The trial unit on INS Rajali had aircraft flying to the Persian Gulf and returning to the base successfully. The station was of "major strategic value", he said.
Plans are on to expand the Arakkonam station, he said.
The US Navy and the Indian Coast Guard will jointly exercise from July 4 to July 7. "We will see their procedures and they will see ours and we will adopt the best of both systems," he said.
Source: IANS
The exercise, codenamed Summerex to begin July 4, coinciding with America's Independence Day, and would include participation of the latest helicopters, aircraft, submarines and ships of the navy, coast guard and air force.
India's largest naval air station, INS Rajali, is anchored off the east coast at Arakkonam, nearly 70 km south of Chennai.
"Units of the western and eastern command will exercise together here," Vice-Admiral Raman Puri, commander in chief of the eastern naval forces, said.
Puri said India's indigenously built advanced light helicopter (ALH) from Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. was being tested for naval operations at Kochi on the Kerala coast. The earliest version of the ALH will be inducted into the navy's eastern command in a few months, Puri said.
He said the navy's Arakkonam facility had been in operation since 1992 and reconnaissance planes had been stationed there for many years. The station is being used as a long-range maritime patrolling station.
The trial unit on INS Rajali had aircraft flying to the Persian Gulf and returning to the base successfully. The station was of "major strategic value", he said.
Plans are on to expand the Arakkonam station, he said.
The US Navy and the Indian Coast Guard will jointly exercise from July 4 to July 7. "We will see their procedures and they will see ours and we will adopt the best of both systems," he said.
Source: IANS
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