News Muncher - category naval exercises

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Taiwan scrambles jets and puts missile, naval and land units on alert over China’s military drills

LA Times

Taiwan scrambled jets and put missile, naval and land units on alert Thursday over Chinese military exercises being conducted around the self-governing island where a new president took office this week. China’s military said its two-day exercises around Taiwan were punishment for separatist forces seeking independence. In his inauguration address Monday, Taiwan’s President William Lai called for Beijing to stop …

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9 months, 4 weeks ago

China, Iran and Russia stage joint naval drills in Gulf of Oman

Al Jazeera

Military exercises running through March 16 are to involve warships and aviation. Russia’s defence ministry said the exercises that will run through Friday and involve warships and aviation would focus on the protection of “maritime economic activity”. State media reported that a grouping of ships from Russia’s Pacific Fleet, led by the Varyag cruiser, arrived at the Iranian port of …

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1 year ago

'Shouldn't harm interests..': China vexed over India-Philippines naval exercises in South China Sea

India TV News

The recent naval exercises between India and the Philippines on the disputed Souhave left the Chinese military miffed as it made a stern warning on Thursday that defence cooperation between different countries should not harm the interests of third countries and regional peace. Earlier this month, INS Kadmatt during its visit to the Philippines participated in a maritime exercise in …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Vizag to host Milan 2024 with 60 navies for exercises

Deccan Chronicle

VISAKHAPATNAM: Visakhapatnam City will host Milan-2024, the multilateral naval exercise, in February next under the aegis of the Eastern Naval Command. Stating this, commander-in-chief of ENC, vice admiral Biswajit Dasgupta, said that hereafter, Visakhapatnam will host Milan every alternate year. Addressing the media at the naval command area on Friday, the outgoing ENC chief said Milan 2022 held here had …

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1 year, 8 months ago

The EU’s Maritime Ambitions in the Indo-Pacific

The Diplomat

On March 10, the EU published its new Maritime Security Strategy – an updated and enhanced version of its first maritime strategy from 2014. As the initial Maritime Security Strategy from 2014 pointed out, member states’ navies are explicitly encouraged to “play a strategic role in providing global reach, flexibility and access” for the interest of all the European Union. …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Ukraine calls on West to be ‘vigilant and firm’ in Russia talks

Al Jazeera

Western leaders are scrambling to defuse the crisis by reaching out to President Putin while also warning of sanctions. Russian naval exercises off Ireland Meanwhile, Moscow’s ambassador to Ireland said his country will not conduct naval exercises in international waters in the Irish Sea next week following a request from the Irish government to relocate the operation. Irish Foreign Minister …

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3 years, 5 months ago

China begins naval exercises in South China Sea amid US drills, ahead of Indian Navy's expedition

India Today

China on Friday kicked off five-day-long naval drills in the disputed South China Sea, setting up a vast navigation restriction zone amid the all-domain military exercises being conducted by the US in the Indo-Pacific region along with Britain, Australia and Japan, the first of its kind in more than four decades. The Indian Navy is also deploying a naval task …

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4 years, 1 month ago

India discussing more trilateral naval exercises

The Hindu

In continuation of the trend of growing trilateral and multilateral exercises, two new trilateral naval exercises are in the works: one among India, Australia and Indonesia; and in the other, France is keen on joining India-Australia bilateral naval exercise AUSINDEX, according to two official sources. With India’s capacity growing up in the Indian Ocean Region and the focus on Indo-Pacific, …

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$Malabar 2020: Navy\'s aircraft carrier Vikramaditya to participate in naval exercise$

4 years, 1 month ago

Malabar 2020: Navy\'s aircraft carrier Vikramaditya to participate in naval exercise