Along with the carriers and submarines, the Malabar series of wargames on India's western seaboard will also see participation by latest guided missile cruisers, destroyers and frigates as well as long range maritime F-18 and Jaguar fighters.
"The naval wargames will be complex in nature involving anti-submarine warfare manoeuvres, flying operations and crossdeck embarkations," the naval official said, signalling a resolve of the two countries to take their military-to-military interaction to a new high.
The new Malabar series of wargames come close on the heels of frontline Indian Air Force Sukhoi fighters taking part for the first time in fighter exercises at the world's most advanced air wargames complex at Nellis Air Base in the Nevada desert of the United States.
Image: An F/A-18E/F Super Hornet moves between aircrafts on the flight deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan.
Photograph: jo yong-hak/AFP/Getty Images
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