Eye on Indian Ocean, India-Australia joint naval exercise to begin April 2
(WorldNews India)

With an eye on China´s increasing presence in the Indian Ocean, India and Australia will participate in a bilateral naval exercise from April 2 to 16. This will be Australia´s largest display of its defence assets since 1947. Focus of the AUSINDEX exercise will be `anti-submarine warfare`, and it will take place off the coast of Vishakhapatnam, Australian diplomatic sources said. Both sides will deploy P-8I aircraft and P-8A aircraft, which are a `long-range anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft` capable of broad-area, maritime and littoral...