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N-powered US supercarrier heads for Chennai - The Times of India
CHENNAI: A US Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, the largest warship in the world, is bearing down on Chennai. The nuclear-powered USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), which the American military has said was used to dispose of the body of Osama bin Laden at an undisclosed location in the Indian Ocean, will dock off the port on Saturday.
The 330-metre-long behemoth of the seas is on a four-day visit to take part in Exercise Malabar 2012, the 15th edition of the multilateral exercise involving the United States, India, Japan, Australia, and Singapore. The Carl Vinson will be accompanied by two other US warships which will berth inside the port, officials said.
"USS Carl Vinson is coming to Chennai port to take part in Exercise Malabar, which will be coordinated by the Indian Navy," a Chennai port official said.
The Indian and US navies will demonstrate their ocean defence capabilities off the eastern seaboard in the Bay of Bengal, from Visakhapatnam to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands that guards approaches to the Strait of Malacca, one of the world's busiest waterways, Indian Navy officials said.
Indian and American armed forces have held as many as 60 exercises over the past eight years. Exercise Malabar, which has often included participation of aircraft carriers, represents the top-end of this expanding military-to-military engagement.
The USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) was the third of the 10 Nimitz-class supercarriers built for the US Navy. The carrier was commissioned on March 13, 1982 and has since been deployed in several combat operations.
In the 1990s, it launched airstrikes in support of Operation Desert Fox and Operation Southern Watch in Iraq. After the September 11 attacks, the USS Carl Vinson moved to the North Arabian Sea, to launch the first strikes of Operation Enduring Freedom. In January 2010, the aircraft carrier was sent to Port-au-Prince to assist disaster relief operations after the devastating earthquake in Haiti.
CHENNAI: A US Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, the largest warship in the world, is bearing down on Chennai. The nuclear-powered USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), which the American military has said was used to dispose of the body of Osama bin Laden at an undisclosed location in the Indian Ocean, will dock off the port on Saturday.
The 330-metre-long behemoth of the seas is on a four-day visit to take part in Exercise Malabar 2012, the 15th edition of the multilateral exercise involving the United States, India, Japan, Australia, and Singapore. The Carl Vinson will be accompanied by two other US warships which will berth inside the port, officials said.
"USS Carl Vinson is coming to Chennai port to take part in Exercise Malabar, which will be coordinated by the Indian Navy," a Chennai port official said.
The Indian and US navies will demonstrate their ocean defence capabilities off the eastern seaboard in the Bay of Bengal, from Visakhapatnam to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands that guards approaches to the Strait of Malacca, one of the world's busiest waterways, Indian Navy officials said.
Indian and American armed forces have held as many as 60 exercises over the past eight years. Exercise Malabar, which has often included participation of aircraft carriers, represents the top-end of this expanding military-to-military engagement.
The USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) was the third of the 10 Nimitz-class supercarriers built for the US Navy. The carrier was commissioned on March 13, 1982 and has since been deployed in several combat operations.
In the 1990s, it launched airstrikes in support of Operation Desert Fox and Operation Southern Watch in Iraq. After the September 11 attacks, the USS Carl Vinson moved to the North Arabian Sea, to launch the first strikes of Operation Enduring Freedom. In January 2010, the aircraft carrier was sent to Port-au-Prince to assist disaster relief operations after the devastating earthquake in Haiti.
