USN-Indian Navy Exercise : Malabar 07

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U.S., Indian commanders meet to plan Malabar exercise

By Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class John L. Beeman

Posted: 04/09/2007


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PHILIPPINE SEA – USS U.S. Navy Capt. Robert Girrier and Indian Navy Rear Adm. Robin Dhowan along with the commanding and operations officers from ships participating in U.S. - Indian Navy bilateral Exercise Malabar 07-01, met aboard INS Mysore April 6, to plan the daily details of the exercise, being held off the Japanese Island of Okinawa.

USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54) Operations Officer Lt. Dave Sigler commented on what the experience of working with the Indian Navy means to him.

“I am very excited to be working with the Indian Navy. It’s a great opportunity for the United States to build relations with a very professional and capable Navy, as well as learn some new techniques and procedures,” said Sigler.

Malabar exercises all major warfare areas, specifically, sea control operations, maritime interdiction and maritime operations.

“This flows from what we did last year, and we certainly hope this will increase in both scope and magnitude as we move on to increase focus and progress in other areas beyond tactics, and beyond exercise centric, to perhaps operational or even strategic areas of cooperation,” said Girrier, the Destroyer Squadron 15 commander.

This is ninth Exercise Malabar and the first to be held outside the Indian Ocean.

“What makes this years exercises unique is that we have the opportunity to come down into the Okinawa operational area, as opposed to the U.S. ships coming down and exercising in our area. So this makes this year’s exercises truly unique and we are very happy to be here and mix around with your ships and interact over the coming few days,” said Dhowan, who commands the eastern Indian Navy fleet.

Seven U.S. ships and 6,500 U.S. Navy personnel are taking part in the exercise located in the U.S. Seventh Fleet area of responsibility. The U.S. Seventh Fleet is the largest of the forward-deployed U.S. Fleets, composed of approximately 50 ships, 120 aircraft and 20,000 Sailors and Marines assigned at any given time.

For more information, visit the U.S. Seventh Fleet web site at http://www.c7f.navy.mil.


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http://www.c7f.navy.mil/news/2007/april/14.htm


Exercise Malabar 07-1 Begins

7th Fleet Public Affairs

Posted: 04/06/2007


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YOKOSUKA, Japan – More than 6,500 U.S. Navy Personnel will take part in Exercise Malabar 07-1 off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, in conjunction with an Indian Navy port visit to Yokosuka.

Exercise Malabar 07-1 is a key element of the Pacific Fleet’s exercise schedule and is designed to increase interoperability between the Indian and U.S. Navies while enhancing the cooperative security relationship between India and the United States. The at-sea training will include sea control operations, maritime interdiction maritime operations, and will exercise all major warfare areas. The participants will conduct personnel exchanges and professional discussions both at sea and ashore.


ABOARD INS MYSORE, Philippine Sea – In the image above, USS Stethem (DDG 63) Operations Officer Lt. Cmdr. Adam Samuels discusses a point in the wardroom aboard Indian Navy destroyer INS Mysore (DDG). Samuels met with other operations officers for the various ships participating in Exercise Malabar 07-01 April 6.

Below, submarine exercise planner Lt. John Shuler discusses plans with Indian Navy Lt. Cmdr. Vivek Madhwal, the anti-submarine warfare officer for INS Rana (DDG), in the wardroom of Indian Navy destroyer INS Mysore (DDG). Exercise Malabar 07-01 is a bilateral U.S.-Indian Navy training exercise held off the coast of Okinawa to increase interoperability between the Indian and U.S. Navies while enhancing the cooperative security relationship between the two countries. Nearly a dozen Indian and U.S. ships and various aircraft are participating.

U.S. Navy photos by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class John L. Beeman.


The U.S. will be represented by USS John S. McCain (DDG 56), USS Mustin (DDG 89), USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54), USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62), USS Stethem (DDG 63), USS Gary (FFG 51), USS Greenville (SSN 772), three SH-60Bs one SH-60F, and a P-3C maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft.

Indian vessels participating in Malabar 07-1 include INS Mysore (DDG), INS Rana (DDG) INS Ranjit (DDG), INS Jyoti (AO), INS Kuthar (Corvette), and various Indian naval aircraft.

During the exercise, the two nations’ ships will work together in a variety of functional skill areas, including visit boarding search and seizure (VBSS), surface exercises, formation steaming, coordinated surface fire support, air defense exercises and antisubmarine warfare training.

This is the ninth iteration of the Malabar Exercise series, which was last held in September 2006 off the coast of India.

The Arleigh Burke-Class Guided-Missile Destroyers John S McCain, Mustin, Curtis Wilbur, Fitzgerald and Stethem are multi-mission platforms capable of supporting anti-air, anti-surface, and anti-submarine warfare. The 9,600-ton warships can support carrier strike groups and amphibious forces, and can operate independently.

USS Gary is a 4,100-Ton Oliver Hazard Perry-Class frigate capable of anti-submarine warfare (ASW) to protect amphibious expeditionary forces, underway replenishment groups and merchant convoys.

USS Greenville is a 6,900-Ton Los Angeles-Class attack submarine homeported in Pearl Harbor. Attack Submarine mission areas include anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, special operations and strike warfare.

Commander, Destroyer Squadron 15 will be embarked in USS John S. McCain. Destroyer Squadron 15 and its ships are part of the forward-deployed naval forces located in Yokosuka, Japan.

Operating in the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean, the U.S. Seventh Fleet is the largest of the forward-deployed U.S. Fleets, composed of approximately 50 ships, 120 aircraft and 20,000 Sailors and Marines assigned at any given time.

For more information, visit the U.S. Seventh Fleet web site at http://www.c7f.navy.mil.


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http://www.c7f.navy.mil/news/2007/april/10.htm

 

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I love the way INS Mysore looks, Beautiful, Not a stealth or anything like the Americans, Delhi Class Destroyer Neverthless

 

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This looks impresive India is flexing its navy muscles, were there any submarines involved in the grand exercises.

 

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Interceptor,

In the last Malabar Ex-06, Indian Kilo and American Seawolf.

Americans really would like to take it more than just excerises, into Strategic Area as said

“This flows from what we did last year, and we certainly hope this will increase in both scope and magnitude as we move on to increase focus and progress in other areas beyond tactics, and beyond exercise centric, to perhaps operational or even strategic areas of cooperation,” said Girrier, the Destroyer Squadron 15 commander.

Interesting times ahead in South China Sea and Indian Ocean.
Indian Navy has been always India's most powerful wing as well as most proffessional, though it recieved the lowest Portien of the Defence Budget Pie

 

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Indian Navy is on a long scale deployment,

They are off to trilateral Ex with Japan-US-India. from there to South Korea and then off to China and Off to Russia and back to India

 

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Interceptor,

In the last Malabar Ex-06, Indian Kilo and American Seawolf.

Americans really would like to take it more than just excerises, into Strategic Area as said

“This flows from what we did last year, and we certainly hope this will increase in both scope and magnitude as we move on to increase focus and progress in other areas beyond tactics, and beyond exercise centric, to perhaps operational or even strategic areas of cooperation,” said Girrier, the Destroyer Squadron 15 commander.

Interesting times ahead in South China Sea and Indian Ocean.
Indian Navy has been always India's most powerful wing as well as most proffessional, though it recieved the lowest Portien of the Defence Budget Pie

I did say it was Grand Yes the Indian navy has some fine vessels in its fleet and its growing and growing like the Indian economy Its probably one of the biggest in the asian oceans.

 

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i would still keep it in this order in present scenario Japan, India and China, But USN is ready at every part of the world, Therefore is the Undisputed rulers of the High Seas