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India engages in a spot of friendly fire with different allies
By Ray Marcelo in New Delhi
Published: April 17 2004 5:00 | Last Updated: April 17 2004 5:00
This weekend, an Indian navy submarine will attempt to sink the HMS Exeter,a 4,820-tonne British destroyer sailing off southern India in the Bay of Bengal. 😉
This is not an outburst of hostilities but a war-game: an exercise seen as “a stepping stone” to international co-operation between the Indian and British navies, said Nick Spiller, a British officer on board the Exeter.
These naval exercises come in a week where India hosted US and French armed forces in separate manoeuvres, part of the most intensive series of military exercises India has held since the end of the cold war.
In an operation that one US officer likened to the Vietnam war, US and Indian soldiers today finish a week’s training in guerrilla warfare at India’s Counter-Insurgency Jungle Warfare School.
The school, in India’s remote mountainous state of Mizoram, trained about 100 Alaska-based infantry and 120 Indian soldiers in “low- intensity” warfare. Their drills included survival training, such as making traps to catch monkeys 😀 and rescuing a hostage from armed insurgents
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