The indigenously-made missile corvette Indian Naval Ship 'Khanjar' is scheduled for a three-day visit to Trincomalee in Sri Lanka from July 29 onwards, according to the Indian High Commission in Colombo on Friday. After its departure, a Maritime Partnership Exercise with Sri Lanka Navy Ship has also been planned on July 31 off Trincomalee. "The visit of the Indian Naval …
New Delhi: Taking China head-on, India last week gifted Vietnam a fully operational missile corvette, a small-sized warship, in an effort to assert its power in the region as part of its SAGAR initiative as well as to propagate the concept of ASEAN centrality in the Indo-Pacific framework. Shekhar Sinha, former FOC-in-C, Western Naval Command and Chief of Integrated Defence …
India gifted the indigenously-built in-service missile corvette INS Kirpan to Vietnam to enhance that country’s naval capabilities. “Progress on various bilateral defence cooperation initiatives was reviewed during the meeting, with both sides expressing satisfaction at the ongoing engagements,” a Defence Ministry statement said on the talks, stating that the two Ministers had focussed on enhancing cooperation between defence industries of …
