The first phase of the Malabar Exercise 2020 is underway with navies of India, US, Japan and Australia participating.
This exercise comes at a time when China has been provoking India at the LAC in Ladakh.
Japan , US and Australia have also been at loggerheads with Beijing over several issues in the recent past.
The Indian Navy deployed a number of its key platforms including destroyer Ranvijay, frigate Shivalik, off-shore patrol vessel Sukanya, fleet support ship Shakti and submarine Sindhuraj.
It is for first time in more than a decade that the exercise will see the participation of all four Quad countries.
Australia is taking part in the exercise after 2007.
The exercise will showcase the ‘high-levels of synergy and coordination between the friendly navies, which is based on their shared values and commitment to an open, inclusive Indo-Pacific and a rules-based international order,’ a Defence Ministry release had said.
The second phase of Malabar 20 is scheduled to be conducted in the Arabian Sea in mid-November 2020.
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