New Delhi: India will likely hold a major naval exercise in November with the US and Japan. Australia is also expected to be a part of the naval exercise. The development is big in the face of the on-going faceoff with China along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), where there has been mobilisation from the Chinese side from the last several months in Eastern Ladakh. India is already expanding deployment of its warships in the Indian Ocean region in the wake of its tense border standoff.
The naval exercise will likely put China in check to ensure there is no change in the status quo in Eastern Ladakh. In a bid to counter China’s People’s Liberation Army’s aggressive moves Eastern Ladakh, the Indian armed forces have deployed indigenously designed and developed long-range sub-sonic cruise missile ‘Nirbhay’, supersonic cruise missile system ‘Brahmos’ and short-range Surface to Air Missile system ‘Akash’, reports said.Read more…
