U.S. Looking Forward To Better Military Relationship With India

"It is an opportunity for us to get together as navies.

It's an opportunity to work - generally, they're held every other year or so in the Indian Ocean, so it's an opportunity for our U.S. military ships to understand the Indian Navy, to understand the Indian waters, to help work together on the types of contingency things that we might plan together to work on it," he said.

"We do similar types of things across other branches of the service as well, and those are quite productive and growing," Locklear said.

"We're also looking at ways that we can pursue together some - maybe some joint ventures or joint sharing of the ways we go forward on military - some of the military equipment that we might build together.

So we're looking forward to a growing relationship to build a military-to-military with the Indian military," the PACOM Commander said.