Indian Navy To Hold Mega Exercise With Russia In Bay Of Bengal On September 4-5

Sep 02, 2020

The exercises are expected to increases interoperability between both the navies even as India and Russia are expected to sign-on logistics pact later in 2020.

• The Indian Navy will hold a mega exercise, known as passex exercises or passage exercise, with Russia in the Bay of Bengal on September 4-5.
• The exercises are expected to increases interoperability between both the navies even as India and Russia are expected to sign-on logistics pact later in 2020.

• Indra Navy 2020 was planned in Russia’s Vladivostok but was postponed due to the COVID-19 crisis.

New Delhi: The Indian Navy will hold a mega exercise, known as passex exercises or passage exercise, with Russia in the Bay of Bengal on September 4-5. The exercises are expected to increases interoperability between both the navies even as India and Russia are expected to sign-on logistics pact later in 2020.

The exercises, Indra Navy 2020 were proposed by Russian Navy as “non-contact, at sea only” with the focus being to “maintain the continuity engagements between the two navies”, a source said. Indra Navy 2020 was planned in Russia’s Vladivostok but was postponed due to the COVID-19 crisis.

The Indian and Russian exercises happen at the same location where the Indian Navy and USS Nimitz, one of the largest warships in the world had Passex exercises more than a month ago.

Russia will be deploying– two destroyers, Admiral Vinogradov and Admiral Tributs and Tanker Boris Butoma while India will deploy its destroyer-Ranvijay, frigate-Sahyadri, corvette-Kiltan and Tanker-Shakti.

Courtesy: Opera News/Zee News