India, Australian naval drills

First India-Australia naval exercises signal strategic shift.

India-Australia Drills Targeting Submarines Rattle China

By Nc Bipindra & Natalie Obiko Pearson

India and Australia will focus on anti-submarine warfare in their first ever joint naval exercises, signaling a growing strategic relationship to counter China’s increased activity in the Indian Ocean.

The war games next month off India’s Visakhapatnam port in the Bay of Bengal will include exercises to protect a tanker from a hostile attack submarine. The area is near waters where China deployed a nuclear-powered submarine for the first time last year, as well as the Sri Lankan port where another unit surfaced twice. That caused a diplomatic uproar.

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Source: bloomberg.com