US Navy’s USS Nimitz, the world’s largest warship is likely to conduct naval exercises with India off the coast of Andaman and Nicobar island.
Nimitz is already present at Indian ocean via Malacca Strait. The strait, a narrow stretch between Malaysia and Indonesia is a crucial global choke point from which considerable global oil flows to rest of Asia including China.
The likely India-US exercises could happen on the lines of similar exercise India had conducted with the Japanese Naval forces in June 2020. The India-Japan naval exercises was termed as “Passex” or passing exercises.Read More…
