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Quad special forces to wargame off Guam in Indo-Pacific
Indian Navy will be represented by two surface combatants led by Guided Missile Destroyer INS Ranvijay and Frigate INS Shivalik along with maritime reconnaissance aircraft P8I, ASW helicopters and special forces.
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Quad navies conducting the Malabar exercise
By Shishir Gupta, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON AUG 03, 2021 04:05 PM IST

The Quad navies will be conducting amphibious operations involving special forces, live firing and anti-submarine warfare operations off the coast of Guam in the Indo-Pacific as part of Malabar 2021 exercises. The harbour phase of the Malabar naval exercises is scheduled on August 21-24, while the sea phase of the annual exercise will be held on August 25-29.

According to South Block sources, US Navy is bringing in no less than three warships including destroyers, maritime reconnaissance aircraft P 8, anti-submarine warfare helicopters and special forces. Indian Navy will be represented by two surface combatants led by Guided Missile Destroyer INS Ranvijay and Frigate INS Shivalik along with maritime reconnaissance aircraft P8I, ASW helicopters and special forces. The Japanese Navy is bringing in three surface combatants, a submarine mine-layer, maritime reconnaissance aircraft, ASW helicopters and special forces. The Australian Navy will participate in Malabar with one ship, ASW helicopter and special forces. The last Malabar exercise off the coast of Guam was held in 2018 with Japanese, Indian and US Navy participating in the advanced naval war games. The Australian Navy joined the Malabar exercises as part of Quad last year.

The Quad navies, according to officials, will be interacting with each other during the Malabar exercises with notes being exchanged on how to enforce the rule of law in the Indo-Pacific in wake of an aggressive Chinese Navy. The exercises will involve freedom of navigation operations with the Indian Navy conducting bilateral exercises with Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia and Australian Navy both in South China Sea and the Indo-Pacific.

The Malabar exercises comes just before the much awaited Quad summit in US in which Australian, Japanese and Indian leaders will meet the US President Joe Biden in October. The dates and venue of the Quad summit are being worked out, keeping in mind the Japanese general election in that month.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to attend the G-20 summit in Italy, the COP26 in UK, the UNGA and the Quad summit this year.

 
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I would like to congratulate Modi jee with this perfect stroke of diplomacy and foreign policy. Poking a superpower tier neighbor on behest of another superpower. Bravo!
 
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I would like to congratulate Modi jee with this perfect stroke of diplomacy and foreign policy. Poking a superpower tier neighbor on behest of another superpower. Bravo!
It is more of a joint economic alliance than a military alliance, these are just exercises for namesake.
 
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I would like to congratulate Modi jee with this perfect stroke of diplomacy and foreign policy. Poking a superpower tier neighbor on behest of another superpower. Bravo!
Losing out strategic neutrality is very dumb.

Japan and Australia are rich. One is minerals another technological. They also dont share any border with china.
 
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It is more of a joint economic alliance than a military alliance, these are just exercises for namesake.
You think US will give you economic benefit for free? Alliance doesn't just mean to share the profit. Also to share responsibilities. And being China's enemy is not zero cost too. India has to pay more money on military cost.
 
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You think US will give you economic benefit for free? Alliance doesn't just mean to share the profit. Also to share responsibilities. And being China's enemy is not zero cost too. India has to pay more money on military cost.
Who is asking for economic benefit? We are not asking USA for giving us money and all, QUAD is mostly an economic alliance in the making for making alternate supply chains and investments.
 
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Poking a superpower tier neighbor on behest of another superpower. Bravo!
But who is "a superpower tier neighbor" ??
The exercises will involve freedom of navigation operations with the Indian Navy conducting bilateral exercises with Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia and Australian Navy both in South China Sea and the Indo-Pacific.
Nice, welcome to SCS(East VN sea ):cheers:

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And Indian Navy MARCOS as usual would be carrying trash equipment for no reason even though they have great equipment, they just never flaunt it openly.
 
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I don't understand Indians. Why do they think the navy would matter at all in a conflict between China when India and China share a land border?
 
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I don't understand Indians. Why do they think the navy would matter at all in a conflict between China when India and China share a land border?
Naval conflicts are different, they are for power peojection.
 
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the training and joint exercises will.give India vital experience for future conflict preparation with pakistan or China.

more than.that India projects power and prestige in South China Sea. important messages from.new Delhi
 
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And Indian Navy MARCOS as usual would be carrying trash equipment for no reason even though they have great equipment, they just never flaunt it openly.
While Marcos have better standardized equipment compared to Para SF...their equipment is still not the best. Most of em still use the initial Tavor versions. The Israelis clearly stated the latest iterations of Tavor were developed based on inputs from Indian forces since we're the largest operators of Tavors

Secondly, Marcos do have some top notch equipment as revealed during Ladakh standoff but most of em are only equipped with what you see in the pictures in terms of personal gear

MARCOS Andaman & Nicobar unit featuring all black uniforms during a recent training exercise

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