Australia To Host Malabar Exercise, Says Australian PM Aboard INS Vikrant
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced on Thursday that his country will host Exercise Malabar, a naval drill involving Australia, India, the US and Japan.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced on Thursday that his country will host Exercise Malabar, a naval drill involving Australia, India, the US and Japan.
Speaking onboard indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant here, he also said that India will for the first time participate in Australia's multinational Talisman Sabre exercise.
Last year, India and Australia conducted more exercises, operations and dialogues than ever before, the visiting PM noted. In a major step forward in the bilateral relationship, India and Australia undertook Maritime Patrol Aircraft deployments to each other's territories for the first time, he said.
"In November alone we conducted increasingly complex and sophisticated exercises in Indo-Pacific Endeavour and Exercise Austrahind," Anthony Albanese said.
